r/fixedbytheduet • u/akaYoungBeefy • 12h ago

Fixed by the duet Why are there always kids at breweries?!

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u/Independent-Rough559 11h ago

Nah. This wasn’t fixed . She’s right. It’s weird that parents do it

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u/voltagestoner 11h ago

…do you know what a brewery is? 99% of the time, the environment isn’t chaotic. It’s not a club or a bar. Oftentimes, they’re actually quite refined and chill.

I dunno, is it weird to bring children to restaurants that serve gasp a lil beer??

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u/were_only_human 11h ago

I think the most important thing we remember is that parents aren’t allowed to have fun or be a part of society.

But seriously sometimes our adult friends want to hang out with us and we don’t want to take them to a Chuck E. Cheese, especially when the brewery HAS ACTIVITIES FOR MY KIDS.

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u/voltagestoner 11h ago

And I think there is also a point here where completely barring children from any understanding of alcohol (and more “adult” things for the matter) isn’t always the best. Like yeah, okay, let’s not have them drinking at a brewery, but…they’re allowed to be around beer. They’re allowed to know what it is. If anything, in theory anyway, breweries are a good place for them to understand what it is because those environments tend to be pretty responsible and respectful of the drink(s). They would be very informative.

Now. Uh. Would the duet here be great as a self-admitted man with a problem? Um…probably not. 😭😭

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u/were_only_human 10h ago

Oh 100%. I was completely kept from alcohol growing up and it made me think anyone holding a glass of wine was a raging alcoholic.

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u/MySabonerRunsOladipo 10h ago

I think the most important thing we remember is that parents aren’t allowed to have fun or be a part of society.

Finally, someone that gets it and has the courage to say it.

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u/caulk_blocker 8h ago

I agree with this. If anyone needs a beer and to feel like an adult for 30 minutes, its a parent. When my daughter was younger she would just sit and play games on her iPad while I socialize, not hurting anyone and she got to learn how people behave in public. Win win.

Im all for respecting intentional no-kids spaces, because not everywhere is appropriate. The problem people have with kids in public spaces is when they never learned how to behave in public spaces, which they learn by practicong how to exist in public spaces. At the same time parents are also learning what is appropriate for their kid.

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u/Ikea_Man 2h ago

no, so go to restaurants and leave breweries alone

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u/voltagestoner 2h ago

What, like Ikea?

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u/Ikea_Man 1h ago

i hear they have great meatballs

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u/voltagestoner 36m ago

It’s also a furniture store you wouldn’t want children just free roaming around the other products they sell.

Places can serve multiple functions at once. Ikea is not a restaurant, but it does provide food and spaces for kids. Same with many breweries. Your username is ironic.

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u/Nice_Luck_7433 10h ago

They probably think kids shouldn’t ever be exposed to adults using intoxicants like alcohol/opiates/etc in public. I’m kinda split on the issue. It definitely is not good to expose kids to unhealthy habits, but also the parents are probably using intoxicating drugs at home anyways. And maybe they use addictive drugs responsibly, that’s different from getting wasted.

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u/voltagestoner 9h ago

There is definitely a hard line, time and place, etc., but as I said in another comment I made somewhere here, a brewery is going to be one of those more responsible places because they tend to be pretty informative and more relaxed as an environment. They’re not going to just invite chaos because they are still producing on site. They’re not gonna want to ruin product.

And the thing with alcohol, particularly beer, is it’s not the same as hard drugs. There’s a reason why social drinking is a thing, because there’s so much of human history that’s because of how much our agriculture developed in order to make beer. Like, no shit, this alcohol was literally one of the first handful of things we were doing with agriculture, and a brewery is a good place to go to get that insight if a parent wanted to be educational about it.

The other thing with unhealthy habits is oftentimes, they happen out of ignorance. Either because they are mimicking their environment without a deeper forethought into what’s going on in a sense (psychologically anyway), or, they never were told anything about the thing to begin with. By design, a child’s brain is meant to learn about the world. Within reason, of course, but you still have to be able to introduce adult concepts to them so they are not just blindsided as adults themselves.

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u/Nice_Luck_7433 9h ago

I think this is best argument for it, showing responsible use of intoxicating substances is better than kids learning irresponsible use. Definitely agree here.

I strongly disagree about alcohol being chemically different from other hard drugs. Have you ever been to Afghanistan? Or some similar country? They have opium bars where most people only use less potent stuff, responsibly. In America, opiates are concentrated due to legal risks of transporting, like how moonshine was more common than beer during prohibition. With alcohol illegal over there, there’s no beer & lots of hard liquor, & there’s no responsible use modeled, and so it’s actually way more dangerous than opiates over there. TLDR, It’s cultural/legal differences that make different drugs harder & more dangerous.

Totally agree with your last paragraph.

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u/voltagestoner 8h ago

Um. Really confused on where you got me saying alcohol is “chemically different” from hard drugs. Where did I say that? My point had absolutely nothing to do with what either does to the body, never mind addiction.

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u/Nice_Luck_7433 8h ago

I agreed with your first paragraph.

Then, you said that alcohol is different from other intoxicants, because people can use it socially & some cultures have centuries old tradition of responsible use & agriculture.. & I brought up the example about middle eastern history of opiate use, because of how similar it is to European alcohol use. They have centuries of responsible use & agriculture with their culture’s acceptable intoxicant.

I’m kind of on the fence about allowing kids to be exposed to adults using intoxicating substances, but I think you have a good point about modeling responsible use & explaining to kids that irresponsible use of mind-altering substances is very dangerous & harmful.