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).

Probably about 6 - 7yrs old. Or just when they show interest in it.

Ds was about 2 when he swigged the end of my cup of tea for the first time. He liked it, and would then sometimes want me to save him a bit when I had one. He didn’t ask for one of his own until he was about 9 and then only ever wanted one when we were on holiday for some reason! He’s now 14 and had been having a morning cuppa for about 2 years. He never drinks it at any other time though, and he can’t stand coffee.

Maybe 12 or 13 I think. Same with coffee. I don't drink tea myself .I do love coffee though, but without sugar, so when my daughter asked for a taste of mine it was too bitter for her. Now she's 16 she occasionally asks for one of those sickly sweet flavoured coffees you get in coffee shops, but she never finishes it. More of a 'fashion' thing I guess.
My eldest child is 34 and the only hot drink he likes is hot chocolate.
We rarely have visitors at our house (my choice!). I bought a box of regular T bags once 'just in case'. I found it at the back of the cupboard recently-a couple gone out of it but about 3 years out of date..

My mil gave my daughter a bottle of milky tea when she was about a year old. She didn't see the problem. I explained that she didn't need tea. A warm mil would suffice. She didn't do it after that. I said that tea prevents kids from absorbing iron from their food.

It was usual where I grew up to give hot tea/coffee in a bottle to children.

I think I developed a caffeine habit before I could walk

Mine are 5 and 3 and partial to the occasional green tea (I don’t drink ‘normal’ tea). Theirs is usually very weak and mostly topped up with cool water. They also ask for green tea in Wagamama. I won’t give them coffee though!

different choices back in the 70s mine were around 10 months old when they got very milky bottles with a dash of tea

DD wanted some age 6, and I had decaf tea so made her one. She liked it and has one every few days, making it herself now she's 8. She's had decaf coffee but not liked it so much.

I started drinking coffee around 12, but didn't choose to drink tea until after ds was born, in my 30s! Something about the association of a big shock with sweet tea, then I reduced the sugar to zero by the time he was 2 months.

Never, they are 15 & 17.

This is actually a running joke with my 12 year old. He's never had proper tea, despite his first word being "tea" and his first phrase "cup of tea". I keep begging him to let me make him a cup of tea, and he keeps refusing!
He's always had herbal tea. He loved rooibos when he was younger, has always enjoyed a cup of camomile tea at bedtime and has recently started having peppermint too.

DD loves a cup of tea. She hates milk so she's had a bottle of tea from about 8 months.

Now she's 4 and has her own mug. She loves strong tea with no sugar (just like her mum ) and has a cup every day.

Not criticising those who have older children who have never had tea or coffee, but I specifically remember my parents 'weaning' us onto tea and coffee, by saying when we're adults at work, during a meeting when everyone has a tea or coffee, it will look weird to drink something like orange squash (my drink of choice at the time).

I still prefer squash, and only recently started on tea. I'm nearly 40! I've stopped again as either the full fat milk or half pack of biscuits consumed have given me spots!

DC don't drink it at 9 & 10.

DD aged 30 has just started drinking tea, as far as I know she doesn't drink coffee. DS, 28, doesn't drink either as far as I know. I don't think I offered either of them tea or coffee as small children, I did sometimes when they were teens but they always refused.

I thought tea prevented iron absorption so wasn't to be given to children.
Yes, it can, but studies show that it is only nonheme iron absorption and only if taken simultaneously. There are not many people having a bunch of kale with their cuppas, so it should be ok.