My view is no. I was a member of a group who held an open meeting and some people would occasionally take their kids, mostly for childcare reasons.
The danger with that age is they will understand most things and is it fair that alcoholics should dilute their share because there’s a minor there? I don’t think so. its not fair for the parent to possibly have to dilute their share either. It’s also disruptive - at that age they could sit with headphones on and watch something in their phone but if they don’t have that, it’s boring so they might go in and out to the toilet etc.
This happened in my area, someone took his teenage daughter to a meeting and her teacher was in the meeting! I don’t know what the fall out of that was but I can imagine.
Alateen is where the kids could go. Anything else is not going to help them imo.
The danger with that age is they will understand most things and is it fair that alcoholics should dilute their share because there’s a minor there? I don’t think so. its not fair for the parent to possibly have to dilute their share either. It’s also disruptive - at that age they could sit with headphones on and watch something in their phone but if they don’t have that, it’s boring so they might go in and out to the toilet etc.
This happened in my area, someone took his teenage daughter to a meeting and her teacher was in the meeting! I don’t know what the fall out of that was but I can imagine.
Alateen is where the kids could go. Anything else is not going to help them imo.
Again I must stress that I haven’t read anything but I’m really bleeping annoyed! It’s always someone else’s fault with Jack and along with the outrageous lies (honesty in ALL your affairs), the grifting, the living in the past, the sardine fetish etc etc, THAT is why I read and comment here.
It may be a conundrum to some that a person who works the 12-Step programme would get involved here. I mentioned it before, someone questioned that I was a member because I didn’t believe the amount of alcohol someone with a thread on here said they drank. I was told - paraphrasing - that an alcoholic wouldn’t do that, but I disagree. Being an alcoholic doesn’t mean you believe everything someone tells you, in AA or not. And it doesn’t mean you can’t call people out when you believe them to be untrue.
@Orphan_Black I know how you feel, I had that same “ooh look what you lot have done to me”. But I purposely wouldn’t say anything here that I wouldn’t say to someone’s face. Being alcoholic, mentally ill, addicted to something else does NOT excuse people for crappy behaviour. I think Jack a million percent thinks it does and that’s why places like here exist!! She maybe needs to branch out to some of the other threads, they’re savage - some folk are more than happy to troll someone on SM, reveal where they live etc.
Adjust your behaviour Jack and give us nothing to talk about.
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