Merry Christmas to everyone, but not exactly to me.. After a little party we had here among the family, my parents got to drinking and it didn't go very well. My dad is a real hard drinker - rum, scotch, and his beloved whiskey. But don't get me wrong, he's not a drunk. He controls his drinking well and knows when to drink water, eat, and stop everything. But when he has a little much, he gets on the angry side. Likes to yell, and looks to always be on the edge of violence. He gets intoxicated at home about once every two weeks and likes to yell at everyone declaratively. My mom tends to always be the voice of reason. She is typically the person who drinks a little, but is still sober enough to have perfect common sense and usually tries to calm him down. But my mom isn't very good at that and I usually have to get her to stop yelling at him because yelling + drunk man = yelling back and on the brink of that violence I mentioned earlier. Today, however, my father received a bottle of his favorite whiskey for Christmas and my parents got to drinking tonight. I left the house beforehand, and when I came back, I found my parents yelling at eachother as always, except my dad was trying to calm my mother down because she was literally talking crazy. The only problem with that is he was yelling while doing so, which was obviously a bad idea. To make this long story short, I had to stand less than an inch away from my father's face today and for the first time, had to assert that he wouldn't hit me. (He approached me, by the way; I am not an idiot) My mom was far drunk because she never drinks hard and had almost a liter of whiskey tonight. The whole scene was a half hour of me using everything I had learned in psychology to get them both to simmer and calmly love each other again. But I want to know from you guys.. How can I help my parents when they drink at home? As far as I was concerned, my objective was to calm the least drunk one first, and then assure the second. (In this case, get my dad to stay quiet via logic, reason, and assertion, and then assure my mom that he wouldn't do anything and that at the moment, I was in charge) Do you guys think I handled this well and how could I improve in preventing cases like these and fixing them if they do occur? (Right now, my mom is knocked out in her bed full of whiskey and food/water I gave her afterward, and my dad is downstairs watching a soccer game by himself. He thanked me for my strength to overcome his intoxication and acknowledged that I was smart for doing what I did. My parents aren't crazy guys, they just have a bumpy road when they drink. Help out a sixteen year old kid, please.