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Originally posted by 33girl
In other words make getting too overly drunk the equivalent of wearing stonewashed jeans and having a Donny & Marie poster hanging in your dorm room.
But like valkyrie said, you can't expect this to only work for good and not for evil. Maybe the same "peers" who convince your daughter that it's bad to get too drunk will also convince her that it's cool to throw up after every meal or shun those who are a different religion.
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The first sentence is pretty funny. Thankfully, that was a generation between me and my kids, I think.
Peer can be one person or a group. I think that overall a group will probably gravitate somewhat toward moderation. Not always, but generally. I wouldn't worry too much that everyone in a chapter (or any other group) would be in the "throw up after every meal" mode.
James -- my friend, my buddy -- forget it. You can't prepare your kids for everything. When you start a new job, you learn from your boss or other employees -- your peers. Your education gives you the basics, then you learn specifics by watching and emulating.
Somewhat like the smoking argument, when it became "less cool" to smoke, the use of tobacco dropped off in the younger agegroups. If moderate members of chapters bring pressure to not drink heavily, maybe binge drinking will drop off as well.