What age were your DC when they had their first cup of tea?

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As a very small child I remember drinking chamomile tea (with MILK, thanks mum), because I wanted to drink tea like a grown up - I think I had my first cup of proper tea at my grandma's house when I was 5 or 6.

I just realised, I had no idea what the norm is these days - when did your DCs have their first cuppa?

(I don't think I've ever used the term 'cuppa' before - I quite like it).

My eldest (now 10) had the odd cup of a brand I'm sure was aimed at children when she was maybe preschool aged. It might have been some kind of fruit tea but definitely decaf. She wasn't over bothered but in the last few weeks has started making herself the odd cup of very milky tea. The toddler has never had any. But I do know people who give their little ones milky tea in a bottle sometimes.

From about 3, a very occasional cup if they asked but very watery/milky with no sugar and a rescued teabag.

I have to watch my 2 year old though, she will finish any of my cups of tea or coffee that I leave around and I like my coffee strong!

Ds was grabbing near empty cups of tea and having a few sips from as soon as he could grab it so about 8 months. Ten of course he used to dip his toast in my tea or biscuits. I've never made him his own cup of tea but he sometimes finishes the last few mouthfuls of mine. He's 5 now. Dds are 13 and 11 and have been having a cup of tea with breakfast for a couple of years now. No sugar. Ds likes coffee too but I don't drink it so that's only when we've been out with nanny and he spoons it out of her cup once he's had all the froth. Seems a lifetime ago now that we did that.
I remember making cups of tea for the family at around 8 age and having one myself. I moved on to black coffee when I was 12.

My 5yr old likes a few sips of her dads green tea but she doesn’t have her own. The 2 ur old likes to finish the last bit in the cup of my regular milky tea but again she doesn’t have her own. My dad made me my own tea for as long as I can remember so probably 3ish - he used to put 2 sugars in even though it was a mini cup and it took me ages to work out why I liked tea so sweet when I was older.

'Re-used' teabag not rescued.

I haven’t got kids, but we grew up in a tea-obsessed Irish family. The pot was constantly replenished so I was probably weaned onto the stuff. Some of my very earliest memories are of having tea & biscuits with my grandparents as a very small child. Proper tea, of course, none of your decaf or herbal muck.

I'm amazed at the number of people who give children tea! You do all know that it contains caffeine, more than coffee? Why would you think giving a child a stimulant is ok? Do you give them a bottle of Red Bull if they want a cold drink?

Iced decaff tea in a lidded cup at around 14 months.
A proper British brew of the hot stuff with milk about 7.

Mine are 6, 8 & 10 and all enjoy weak milky tea occasionally. We sometimes have it on a Sunday afternoon with cake.

I think lukwarm tea is a nice thirst quencher for kids that don't like water

My older two were probably 12 or 13, I think, before they showed any interest in tea or coffee. Youngest is 22 and I don't think he's ever had tea or coffee, only a sip which was enough for him to decide he didn't like them.

When they were one or two, I think, they'd occasionally finish the dregs of my cup. Now they are 7&9 they occasionally have a cup of their own: if we've been out for a long walk or have been out in the cold they ask for a nice cuppa to warm them up.

Gosh, I have my DC Molly tea in a cup from about 8 months with their lunch. No sugar of course. I offered them coffee in early teens.

Mine started having milky tea from being about 2. They would have one with breakfast. We all prob drink 3-4 cups a day now kids aged betwwen 12- 18. My favorite time of the day is around 4ish when they get home from school/ college & we sit together & have a cuppa.

I only have decaf tea.

Never. Ds is 16

My eldest has had tea since he was about 1 and a half. Very milky and no sugar. He used to ask for it every morning, he called a 'cupee'

I expect I'll be deemed unreasonable if that weird 'my baby possibly maybe had a drop of coffee' thread is anything to go by.

He's 9 now and has a cuppa most mornings. Less milky these days, but still no sugar (though he does ask sometimes )

My youngest is 2, and she isn't bothered. But will sometimes try and dip her finger into my coffee, or DPs tea. Because she seems to find it hilarious.

Dd1 was about 9 and very occasionally has one but very milky with a little sugar and then only has a couple of sips. Dd2&3 have never asked. They regularly make me coffee with my coffee machine but haven’t tried it. They also hate fizzy drinks

A friend of mine would give her daughter it in her bottle from about 9 months.. I was very judgey of it and haven't given any of mine tea (eldest is 4). Maybe I was prudish as it seems lots of you do let your children have it but I'm not a tea drinker at all so have no real idea.

My husband is a Kurd and they drink a lot of black cardamon tea in tiny glasses, my daughter had her first when she was about 18 months and has one in the morning with breakfast at least 4/5 days a week.
She likes English breakfast and Earl grey and likes to have her mini teapot and cup with some tea a couple of times a week.
We stumbled across a Whittards in January and she used some of her pocket money to buy herself a tea diffuser, peppermint tea and an Assam tea.

I on the other hand absolutely hate tea and coffee

About 3? DD1 (7) now makes herself a cup of tea occasionally - a couple of times a week. DD2 isn't fussed, but will drink a mint tea sometimes so as not to feel left out.

My two children were probably about 3 when they first had tea. Very, very milky and weak. They’re teens now and drink a lot of tea. Stronger and less milk now but still quite milky. No sugar though, only their dad has sugar in tea in this house. No-one drinks coffee here.

Oh and DD1 is allowed a weak cup of coffee on a Saturday morning as a treat. Tbh, I drank so much coffee when I was feeding her I'm not surprised she's developed a taste for it 😁

My dd (8) has drank milky tea with 1 sugar since she was about 3, I’m a serious tea drinker and she probably started doing it to be like mummy, now the two of us have a brew every morning, my two Ds’s (10 and 4) don’t like it 🤷🏼‍♀️.

he called a 'cupee'

That’s cute. I hope you remind him of that often. 🤣

Chocolate also has caffeine and dc eat that. It’s not red bull, one cup of tea is unlikely to have an affect more than the sugary biscuits they’re dunking into it. What a weird thing to get stressed about from about 6 I was drinking a small sherry every time we visited my great grandad because he had dementia and got upset if we said no. I still think it’s bizarre my mum was fine with that but it was 3 times a year and I’m not showing any ill effects other than the fact I hate sherry in my adult life