Additionally...ammo for you...kids learn best by modeling, as you know.

When parents have a bad day at work, and come home and have a few drinks to ease the pain - that what they teach their kids. "How do you handle life's difficulties?" DRINK!!! Yippee!!

Once you have kids, it has to all change. Especially in those early years when they are all eyes gobbling up everything they see. If you have a bad day, talk it out, get some hugs, take a walk, play a game with your kids. I'll bet that will feel 100 times better than a six pack.

Emmy (raised by a man who drank Manhatten's and couldn't spell the word hug!)