to think mumnset won't be happy to hear middle class parents drink too much?

[Toothiepeg]

I don't drink at all. I agree with the findings of www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19870190 this study. I'm guessing though that many mumsnetters will dislike hearing the truth?

As a nation we drink too much - it's as simple and horrible as that.

" I don't drink at all. I agree with the findings of www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19870190 this study. "

No surprise there - it's relatively easy to agree with something that does not directly affect you.

*Ahh, but MrsJay, you forget the OP not only doesn't drink but is also very middle class

Therefore she is a paragon and much better than the rest of us*

so what you are saying is i need to know my place

Temperance and middle class. That's a heady combination.

The great unwashed are lucky to have her as their role model.

We all do MrsJay, we all do.

Looking up at the OP in breathless wonder.

We have to wash now too?

Oh I remember watching a BBC4 documentary about the temperance movement what a bloody cheery bunch they were

Ian Hislop did an episode of Who Do You Think You Are focussing on one of his grandparents who had been big into the Scottish Temperance movement. Turns out the hall where he preached about the wickedness of alcohol is now a Wetherspoon's.

I did laugh.

HoneyDragon

A quick scrub under the arms with a gin soaked rag should do the trick.

CATGIRL I disagree; there are comments on this thread that are laughing at alcoholism and not at the crap research?article and/or the OPs attitude

sorry...didnt mean to shout at you

I have a lovely whiskey and heather soap. Bet people think I'm a steamer.

Tee-.total here. Just never botbeted me. I never fancy alcohol. Food...give me food!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Breaks Chaos rules -

Things middle class parents should be vair concerned about:

• DC doing too many activities
• DC doing too few activities due to work committments
• working
• not working
• pushing DC too hard academically
• making life too easy for DC.
• feeding their DC too much
• feeding their DC too little
• too much TV
• not allowing their DC access to TV....

And on and on and on....

I must have missed those ithinkimaybegoingmad

I haven't seen any

I don't drink because I'm an alcoholic and can't.

This report is worrying because drinking too much even if you don't drink alcoholically can damage you physically. I think, although I'm happy to be wrong, that repeated exposure to alcohol can lead to dependancy- some alcoholics are made not born.

Alcoholism isn't funny.

Drinking more than the government guidelines does not make a person an alcoholic. Maybe if other drugs were legal, people wouldn't drink so much.

I'm all for moderation. My moderation is somewhere over the government guidlelines and somewhere under every day... I rarely get blotto, unless I decide it's a night for cocktails, but I drink a glass of wine with most evening meals, I like a beer after a long walk, I LOVE a G&T at around 4pm (saga cruise time, ergo 'respectable') ... not all in the same day, not every day, but certainly more than the gov guideline that were somewhat plucked from thin air.

Not sure if I am middle class, though my parents were working class who worked up to beyond surburbia and Hyacynth Bucket & probably are now middle class (without suburbia). I think the class system is oudated. New terms please.

I try to stick to a Mediterranean everything in more moderation than the government states, based on balance and more sobriety than tipsiness philosophy.

And a reassuring rather than cautionary tale...

Reading throught this thread, and the jokes about hiding wine and general light heartedness about drinking reminded me that even before I drank too much I would never have made light of it.
I was always very careful not to have my photo taken glass in hand, avoided conversations about drinking in general, etc. I knew deep down that this lovely friend was going to bite me on the arse big time. Literally 20 years before my first morning drink.

The government guidelines are based on health advice. it's NOT a random number put there to piss you off. If you drink more than guidelines you are harming yourself and you may, through your excessive drinking, be harming others. Lord, but people don't like hearing that do they?

Too right I'm dull and sanctimonious and smug. I'm also not dependent on alcohol. I don't actually want a medal for that - would clash with my cardi.

So you're saying that people are either teetotal or dependant on alcohol?

What an odd person you are.

Toothie you will be fucking up your children more through your smugness than I am through my glass of Merlot, I can assure you of that

What happens when your darling tots decide to drink. Cue hysteria from Mummy?

Well after reading that article I decided not to drink anymore. I will not be drinking any less though

I don't think you're dull.

I think a bit of an ass, though.

HTH!

Well, in general all classes in the UK drink too much, including me, when I can afford it.
Interesting that the article states that the wealthier people are, the more likely they are to drink a lot.
And yet it is currently the "feckless" benefits scroungers who are under threat of getting food stamps instead of cash from the government because, apparently they are all spending the cash on booze for t'baby

I was surprised by the findings that people drank more when a DC came along. I drink small amounts regularly, 5 nights out of 7, but I drink a fraction of what I did before DC. This is the case with many, many of my peers - especially the women who have also had periods of a year without alcohol, several times. We're all light weights now.

Well, we are nicely covered here, DH is teetotal, eats a healthy diet, exercises and has never smoked. I drink like a fish, eat like a whale and used to smoke like a chimney. Between us we should be able to either totally screw up our DD or make her the most well adjusted person ever depending on this week's chosen surveys.

To be honest, as long as my DD grows up to be reasonably happy and healthy, and NEVER happily describes herself as sanctimonious and smug, we'll consider it a Job Well Done.

Oh, and we're middle class (I suspect lower middle class as we're more Cath Kidston rather than Boden)