What to do when your child has come home drunk
Dr. Andrew Rochford
Unfortunately, a drunken teenager is something that far too many parents will have to deal with at some time or another. You love your children, you trust them and you expect them to show you some respect and follow the rules. But what are you meant to do when they don’t?
You feel cheated. You have set the ground rules for them, to keep them safe, to guard their future, to protect their developing brain and still they have taken it upon themselves to get drunk. They didn’t just bend the rules a little with a few sips, or one glass; they have torn up the entire rule book and drunk far too much and found themselves in a very nasty state.
So after you have pulled yourself together and realised now is not the time to fall apart, you realise it’s up to you to take control and to act appropriately. The blubbering mess in front of you that resembles your child needs the issue to be addressed. This is not time to ask, “Where did it all go wrong?” All that matters is, “What do I do next?”
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