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My dad gave me a beer to drink when I was a young boy and it tasted disgusting of course. Later when I was a teen all of my friends were becoming party obsessed alchoholics and I never bothered because IMO I had already been there done that. No big deal.
Another thing that really stands out in my mind is my dad gave me a talk when I was only about five yes old. He said you can cuss and say whatever you want around me but don't EVER speak like that in your mothers presence or any woman for that matter. To this day I'm 25 and have not cursed or used bad language in front of her.
I think that if you give them freedom there is no reason to be sneaky and do wrong shit. It's when your restrictive is when they will rebel or experiment with bad things. I really didn't have many rules at all but then again I never felt the need to break any.
I was pretty much always treated as an adult my whole child hood and therefore I pretty much acted like one.
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