To think getting quite drunk with a baby is odd??

[Choccywoccydoo10]

NC as could be outing.

So we are suppose to be visiting friends this weekend. They have a 6 month old we have a toddler. They want to go out for dinner and drink then go back to theirs and pop open the champagne. Apparently they have quite a few bottles. My DP friend then said he's going to guzzle the wine and his wife will be drinking too.

Obviously most of the drinking will be when the kids are in bed but AIBU to think you wouldn't do this?? What if something happened like an emergency and you needed to go out or the baby needed something. I wouldn't want to get really drunk while caring for my D'S.

I'm all for having fun and a laugh but a glass or 2 not 3 bottles of champagne and guzzling wine!

AIBU or would other people do this?

I'm not missing the point Mumsie, quite a few posters have suggested that drinking at all with children in the house is not acceptable.

I thought we were talking about blotto?

Of course I understand how drinking works. I drunk until I was 23, then I grew up.

So people who drink are not grown up?

You're getting worse.

I thought we were talking about blotto?

Not unless you have changed your points from earlier in the thread. Have you realised how ridiculous they were and are now pretending you meant something else?

She's good at that hotbuttered

Anyway I said a night in the pub. I wasn't nursing 2 small roses the whole time. Neither was i dribbling over myself. I was PISSED.

Not at all. I don't like it when people drink at all when they are in charge of children and I stand by that.

However, there is a big difference between one or two and getting wrecked, which is what the OP was talking about.

Yes, I believe that getting absolutely off your head drunk is incredibly immature.

Can you make up your mind? You thought we were talking about getting wasted but you keep telling is it's not ok to drink at all with kids around.
So which is it? Which are we actually talking about?

Professor, are you an ex alcoholic?

My eldest is 26 and I still don't drink anything more than a little wine at mealtimes in front of him, or when he stays over!

Why?

It's quite a simple concept

The OP has said all the way through the thread is about getting wankered, not one or two.

Me, an ex alcoholic? Absolutely not

Of course I understand how drinking works. I drunk until I was 23, then I grew up.
So everybody who drinks ANY alcohol at all needs to grow up? I'm picturing all the Mediterranean meals that would be ruined! I think your thinking is very childish and polemical.

The OP has said all the way through the thread is about getting wankered, not one or two

Oh dear, you do understand that other people have said things too, and then people respond? We're not just talking about the OP here.

I really can't understand the obtuseness. Obviously not one single person here says its perfectly ok to get unconcious drunk while is sole charge of small children. Not one. It doesn't even need to be said, but we have done so for the hard of thinking amongst you.

We are arguing about your inane comments that anyone who drinks two glasses of wine is drunk and unable to parent, and similar nonsense.

When you realised how silly your comments have been, you reverted to talking about the OP instead. How about you just apologise instead? Go on, be a grown up. Admit your mistake and say sorry.

Of course I understand how drinking works. I drunk until I was 23, then I grew up.
So if you drink you're not a grown up

She's good at that hotbuttered
Yep

Apologise for what?

I haven't made a mistake. I strongly believe that people who drink are childish knobs and I absolutely stand by that. I'm never going to apologise for my opinion, as I am entitled to it.

People that enjoy a couple of glasses of nice wine are childish knobs?

Generally.

haven't made a mistake. I strongly believe that people who drink are childish knobs and I absolutely stand by that. I'm never going to apologise for my opinion, as I am entitled to it.
So does that include you dh?

Yet your DH drinks?

professor, I though you accepted that some people liked to drink? Doesn't sound like that to me.

I like to drink, I don't think that people who don't are knobs. Each to their own.

I was over 30 when I had my first child and nearly 40 when I had my last. I drank in my late teens and twenties when I was free to do so without being responsible for another human being. Once children came along I stopped and I barely drink at all now. My 11 year old has never witnessed her mum with a hangover and the culture in our house is not based on getting hammered at the weekend.

If you don't feel comfortable about sharing the wine and bubbly then don't. Very much doubt anyone will notice or bother. Some people seem able to consume alcohol without being out of their mind drunk. The biggest worry for me would be the hangover next day. Just can't cope with that.

My parents got drunk all the time when I was growing up and it was fucking shit. Yanbu OP while the kids are so young.

I think it's ok for one or the other parent to have a few drinks but feel one should stay sober. I find it bizarre how normalised it is to share two or three bottles of wine in the evening when the kids are in bed.

I presume the defensiveness of many of the replies is because so many people do it. That it's widespread doesn't make it right.

If I want to get pissed the kids can stay over at grandparents or friends.

Lenl

Exactly!! Alcoholism has become normalised, poor kids is all I can say!