Word: drinkingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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But why should schools do the job? "We have tried Prohibition and it failed," says Chafetz. "We have tried campaigns of slogans and they have failed. We have tried educational programs based on fear of alcohol and they have failed." And although the best place to teach children the dangers...
A little watered wine for the kids in the lower grades, sherry as well as tea at school functions, "practice drinking" in the college years-so goes Harvard Psychiatrist Morris Chafetz' proposal for what he holds would be a valuable addition to the curriculum of U.S. schools. "I would...
Chafetz, who also directs an alcohol clinic at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, wants to show students "how different the reponse will be when drink is sipped slowly rather than gulped; how different the response will be when drink is consumed with food and while sitting in a relaxed...
Most parents are unwilling to teach their children how to handle alcohol because of guilty feelings about their own drinking, Chafetz said. The schools must assume the role that the family has forfeited.
Chafetz also advocated abolishing legal age limits for drinking. "I think it's about time we changed these unrealistic limitations. These laws only tend to make us have negative attitudes."