9 year old served ‘birthday drinks’ at sleepover

Snowball was our Christmas drink as kids. I even found a homemade vegan recipe to make a similar alternative so I could still have my Christmas snowball 😂

Honey, it is a child friendly drink in a fun glass.
The kids got to play fancy ladies or gentlemen for a bit sipping out of a fancy glass which they probably do not even know is for Champagne.

You are being way OTT and honestly judging someone elses parenting just because you don't like it is below the belt. The other parent has done nothing wrong, you are sexualising/demonising clothing and tiktok dances.
They're kids, things are just fun.

😂

And yes, letting your 9yo have sips of wine is far more inappropriate than letting her drink squash out of a plastic flute. Given that you're so chilled about letting a young child alcohol, it seems odd that you're so concerned about the choice of a drink receptacle.

Oh FFS

Good grief. I served a friend’s five year old a tequila sunrise without the tequila but in a fancy glass with a parasol.

it never occurred to me that ANYONE might consider this inappropriate.

I think 9 yo is too young for sips of wine.

I feel guilty letting my 15 year old have the occasional cider.

But yep this is hypocritical. If you are allowing her alcohol at home how can you be serious about being 'concerned' about soft drinks served from champagne flutes?

Unless there is more drip feed to come.....

The squash cocktails are just the tip of the iceberg OP. They’ll be shooting up speedballs in an alley before you know it. Best to nip it in the bud before it’s too late

Nah, you can’t be serious. It’s just ytd most ridiculous thing I ever heard. And that’s going some with the nonsense spouted on here sometimes.

Lol I just read you give her actual wine. Fucking hell, what’s wrong with you.

You let your 9yo have sips of wine, but have an issue with sleepovers and squash in a champagne flute.

Buckle up, you’ve got a long road ahead of you!

FFS, OP, lighten up. Kids like to pretend to be grown up. They had some fizzy drinks in plastic flutes. It was just a bit of harmless fun for a birthday and a way of making the drinks feel a bit more special.

As your dc heads into the teenage years, it's likely that there will be some real issues that you will actually need to think about. Save your energy for those and don't waste headspace fretting about an entirely innocent children's party.

Waaaaaaah waaaaaaah waaaaaah my kid was served squash at a children’s birthday party. So inappropriate.

You clearly just hate the mother. The actual hypocrisy.

I have boys but I don't think make up, expensive skincare and crop tops are appropriate for a 9 year old on a regular basis. But each to their own and I wouldn't think anything bad about another parent who did that, it's just not what I'd do. Although the drinks sound fine and normal for that age. I did similar for my 9th or 10th birthday when I wanted a "grown up party". We still did all the usual party games and I wore my laura ashley dress with puffed sleeves but we had lemonade in wine glasses instead of the usual plastic cups. We loved it.

,🤣🤣🤣🤣

Seriously? You let her have wine but are upset about another parent giving her juice in a fancy glass?

This place is nuts.

My 9 year old has sips of wine from me sorry drip feed of the century!!!

So you allow your child, not even in double digits to consume actual alcohol, but a kiddie drink of squash with sweeties, dressed up to look a bit fancy and grown up is a problem?

Oh yes! With the red end to “glow”. Pretend smoking .
9 is definitely not too young for sleepovers if they're happy to go . And i don't think mocktails are setting them up for a life of heavy drinking. Good luck with the teenage years …

How can you square giving your daughter sips of wine with being appalled by mock trials at a party? Pick a lane OP. You just dont like the mother and wanted an excuse to sneer at her didnt you?

How confusing!
No 9yo dd you absolutely can't have juice at your friends house with sweets. Here, stay home and sip some of my Pinot Grigio instead

I can't see any good reason for letting a 9 year old have a sip of wine.
But I can see a reason for creating a cute birthday drinks aesthetic with squash. I'm sure the girls loved it.
I can't believe you're this upright when you've said you've given your child wine!!

Either way you sound like you don't really like the friend and judge her mother.

The absolute hypocrisy of complaining about soft drinks served in plastic flutes whilst allowing your daughter sips of wine. 🤣

We serve Bucks Fizz on Christmas morning and we give the kiddos freshly squeezed orange juice in flutes, it makes them feel part of the occasion and also a bit special.

There’s always been kids who grow up faster than others. I still played with toys into my teens (which I hid from my friends, obviously!) and from about the age of 7 I was surprised how many of my girl school friends wore what I considered ‘teenage clothes’ (whereas I was knocking around in a shell suit!)
There’s not much you can do about that other than hope your own child is quite sure of herself and happy to live life at her own pace without being too influenced by others.

In my day we used to buy those chocolate cigarettes and pretend to smoke them. My mum used to buy them for us- shock horror! 😂