• Ask them not to drink – set rules and monitor these rules
    
• Suggest alternatives to your teenager, such as non-alcoholic beers, wines and cocktails
    
• If you or another parent drops off and picks up, you have control of what time they arrive and what time they go home
    
• Most underage drinking is done before and after the disco
    
• If your teenager knows they will have to face you or another adult at the end of the night they may drink much less, if at all

Tell them never to:

• leave a drink around where it could be spiked
    
• mix drugs and alcohol
    
• drink and drive or take a lift with someone who has been drinking or taking drugs
    
• or leave a party or club alone
    

Information from the HSE’s Straight Talk: A Guide For Parents On Teenage Drinking