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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Counselor who deals with addiction?
DH and I have alcoholism on both sides of our family and would really like to get some advice from a professional on how to best address this with H once she is old enough to understand (and continually address it throughout her tween/teen/college years.) Neither DH nor I are huge drinkers given what we grew up with, but I'm not naive enough to believe that she'll follow in our footsteps. 
We're hoping if we educate her, she can avoid any problems for herself by learning how to manage her feelings, impulses, whathaveyou.
I know we have a number of counselors on here - can anyone point us in the right direction?
Re: Counselor who deals with addiction?
This. Al-Anon was (and still is) a huge help to my BFF when it came time to deal with her MIL's issues.
We make the rockin' world go 'round.
I agree with Al-Anon. We have alcoholism in both of our families. My parents had the same issue. It's something I worry about with my son.
My parents tried to be open with us about the subject and keep us educated. My parents occasionally have a glass of wine with dinner and tried to teach us that alcohol is something that should be enjoyed with food rather then binged on. It sort of worked with me and one of my brothers. It didn't work with my eldest brother, but honestly, I don't think anything would have. He describes his first drink as 'falling in love.' My parents did everything they could. He ended up in rehab while he was still a teenager and has been sober 23 years. He was an alcohol counselor now he's a college professor and teaches graduate school for social workers.
I'm by no means an expert, but my understanding is that there are some people who become alcoholics over time and there are some that are just born that way. The scary part as a parent is there isn't a whole lot you can do.