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A quick search online turned up several drunken gummy recipes.
Apparently this is no newsflash, but I wasn’t aware of it until I read this article in the Huffington Post.
A popular way to consume alcohol among underage drinkers is to soak Gummy Bears in alcohol. I haven’t heard of this. Jello shots, yes. Drunken Gummy Bears, no. Guess that makes me old? A colleague says she and her friends did it all the time in college, calling the treat “Rummy Bears”.
If, like me, you are clueless about the underage drinking phenomenon that involves the chewy treat I figured I’d pass the info along. Teens and even tweens have become very clever about hiding their drinking from parents. That’s where the Gummy Bears come in. According to the Huffington Post, “the latest trend in undercover drinking is especially savvy – especially around Halloween time.” Continue reading »
Co-sleeping is awesome. There’s nothing like the delight of drifting off to sleep with your baby nestled safe and cozy in your arms.
If you’re passing out drunk, though, next to you is the last place your baby should be. As one British mom recently learned, drunken co-sleeping can be fatal. The risk of smothering or crushing the baby skyrockets when any adult in the bed is intoxicated.
In general, co-sleeping is a safe choice, and a brilliant move for breastfeeding parents. But if you’re not sober, you’re not a safe sleeping partner for your baby.
We’re not talking about a beer with dinner, here. The British mother who smothered her child had drunk an entire bottle of wine on an empty stomach before passing out with her little girl in her arms. When her husband came home, he found her unconscious with the infant dead at her side.
Alcohol disrupts women's sleep
A nightcap is often a surefire way to nod off to dreamland, but research shows that too much alcohol actually disrupts sleep, causing frequent night wakings and restless sleep. The effect is particularly strong among women.
Unlike men, though, women don’t report feeling sleepier after a night of alcohol-induced bad sleep. They get poor quality sleep but don’t appear to notice that they slept badly.
In fact, the Daily Beast reports that women react differently than men do to alcohol consumption in all kinds of weird ways. Differences in sleep after drinking are just one of the ways women have unique responses to booze.
A woman needs to drink only 90% of what a same-weight man does to reach the same blood alcohol level. She may or may not feel equally drunk, depending on her individual tolerance. Because women have fewer enzymes in our stomachs to break down alcohol, we get more ethanol into our blood streams. That means women alcoholics often suffer the same organ damage male alcoholics do, even if they start drinking later in life. Continue reading »
These kids must be brilliant.
Apparently so, according to two recent studies that followed American and British children. The findings of the National Child Development Study in the U.K. and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health in the U.S. declare that the “more intelligent children in both studies grew up to drink alcohol more frequently and in greater quantities than less intelligent children.”
Looks like grade A students are more likely to end up in AA as adults. Continue reading »
According to the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, drinking alcohol while pregnant is a really bad idea. In fact, their official stance on the matter leaves no wiggle room whatsoever: “No amount of alcohol consumption can be considered safe during pregnancy.”
That’s right. None. Not even a thimble full of whiskey or a small glass of wine. That seems rather harsh but generations of American women have faithfully followed that advice and avoided the bottle out of fears of doing some harm to their unborn child. Until now, that is. According to an article in the New York Post, more and more pregnant women are drinking alcohol and not feeling guilty about it. Continue reading »
Researchers have some good news and some bad news for parents who are concerned about underage drinking. The bad news is that despite your warnings, your kids are probably going to try alcohol at some point. The good news is that depending upon your parenting style, you may have some sway when it comes to how much they drink. Continue reading »
Moms got MADD about drunk-driving and pushed for stiffer laws. They helped to pass and then later repeal alcohol Prohibition. And now the nation’s mothers — or at least a vocal segment of them — are lobbying to legalize marijuana.
According to the AP, their key argument is that pot is safer than booze and cigarettes. Moms for marijuana believe that teens shouldn’t be tossed in jail for experimenting with marijuana. They also point to pot’s health benefits, claiming it can help ease postpartum depression. Some mothers also say it helps to treat autism.
Moms for pot legalization say that prohibition creates a black market which leads to the sale of dangerous drugs to their children. Continue reading »
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