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image via sciencetimes.com Lower the Drinking Age For Alcohol & Raise the Legal Age for Broccoli Consumption  Binge drinking problem solved.  Next up Cancer.  Wait you need a little more explanation?  OK here I go: Alcohol use in underage kids is an issue.  Heard this morning that 1800 kids die per year on college campuses alone, add in those untold numbers that happen outside of the college arena and yeah, it’s an issue.  As a father of two boys, one now over the legal age and one trying like heck to get there, and I have some skin in the game as well and here is my well thought out solution.  LOWER THE DRINKING AGE TO 14 AND TELL KIDS THEY CANNOT HAVE BROCCOLI UNTIL THEY ARE 21. Let’s unpack the first part of my ingenious solution---lowering the drinking age.  When I was a kid (oh shoot I just became my dad) the drinking age was 18.  At this age you typically were on your way out of high school and heading towards work,...

I may not be the ideal demographic for the Netflix series that seems to be taking the kids by storm these days called 13 Reasons Why.   I’m a 53 year old white guy living in South Carolina and I had to watch this show.  The series follows a bunch of kids impacted by the suicide death of fellow student, Hannah Baker.  Hannah leaves behind 13 cassette tapes detailing what drove her to this decision and this entire series is based on the 2007 fictional novel of the same name written by Jay Asher. As stated above, Hannah dies by suicide and the producers of 13 Reasons Why have decided to show the act in the final episode.  This decision has many experts in the suicide prevention business upset.  Every suicide upsets me, even if they are works of fiction, but on the positive side, this show has forced us to have a conversation about suicide.  A conversation we’ve been avoiding for way too long.  As a Nation we are not very good at preventing ...