HAHAHAHAHA that's how all Australian lectures on drinking are done. Or all lectures. Or just anything. :)

HAHAHAHA, fool.

Exactly. Do you drink that much that you don't even realise when you are drinking anymore?!

Way to go sh*thead

First off, you are awesome if you carried through the argument. second, explain the legality, or use the wine glass as an example. but the guy above me really captured the essence of what i was trying to say.

Wow, hypocrite much? :B

Parenting in a nutshell: Do as I say, not as I do.

That's precisely why you're telling her what you are. If she can't understand the concept of "drinking responsibly," then of course she's gonna think that you're a hypocrite. She's trying to make a correlation based on a stupid assumption. You did the right thing. There's no reason that you should have to give up alcohol unless you're an alcoholic or your daughter is pilfering it. Of course, tact would've helped since your daughter's obviously a boob, so YDI.

K, I don't see why this is such a big deal, it's not like you were chugging a two-sixer whole talking o her, you were just enjoying a glass of wine. You and your daughter should just get over it, and if she can't, she probs won't be much use to society anyways, so she might as well have fun and drink all she wants.

Well, this all depends really. What was the mother trying to teach her kid, here? Responsible drinking, or abstainal? If it is the former, well, perhaps she should offer her kid a taste of her wine? Not to get her drunk, just so she can try the taste in a controlled environment, and making it less of a forbidden fruit. Parents binge drinking is not good for the kids, obviously, but if they can see their parents using alcohol responsibly, taking a single glass to dinner, for instance, then that could teach them it's just another drink.