Did you drink tea regularly as a child?

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I was born in the late seventies , growing up I always drank milky tea at breakfast and dinner and during the day when I wasn't at school.

Giving a baby milky tea from a bottle was also common practice. I have been thinking about this and was curious to know if this was a class / cultural thing or just "what people did in those days."

I grew up in a white working class "done good" family.

I drank milky sugary tea as a child. I don’t think my parents understood that it contained caffeine or that sugar was bad for me. That’s probably why it was more common in uneducated families.

I can't actually remember when I started drinking tea. We got paid 5p for making cups for our parents though. Had to earn our pocket money.

Yes I had tea all the time and at my nans I had my own mug and I’d have loads of sugar in it.

Same background as you. When the kids were small I had lots of questions about did the kids want a tea in their bottles. My eldest will have a tea here and there when it’s cold but he’s a teenager almost!

Yes! Milky, sugary and in a plastic cup! Whenever we went to my nans, drove my mum mad.

Yes sugary milky tea in a bottle born early seventies. Also warm milk on rusk biscuits for breakfast and supper.

Yes, tea with milk and sugar. Stopped the sugar at some point - I can't remember why or when.

I grew up in a different culture so never drank tea as a child. I give my dc milky tea occasionally, no sugar though, and never late in the day. They see it as a proper treat. (Moreso if they get a biscuit to dunk, obviously)

Also late 70s child, milky tea from about age 5, used to have sugar in it too. Mum was working class but married up 😉

My gps gave me sweet milky tea when we went to stay in the 90s. It was divine! I remember my uncle giving his toddlers tea in a bottle and that was in the 2000’s! My family were solidly middle class by that point. Well paid professional jobs all round.

NO! I was born 1978 and don't remember having tea to drink at all.

I do remember drinking on one occassion, my estranged nans coffee, about age 3 and being wired ALL day. It wasn't a milky coffee- it was HER coffee and I was allowed to drink it. I was also given an entire bounty, coconut chocolate bar and had diarrhoea for 2 days. I still remember the whole event, but never had milky tea and didnt drank coffee again till I was much older.

I remember my mum used to bring me a bottle of tea at school pick up! I did start school early though so I was probably almost 4.
I also remember deciding to wean myself off having sugar in my tea once I was a bit older.
this was in the 80s. Yes white working class parents, not well off but aspiring to better things and hardworking

No, I was given milk or water. But I’ve seen toddlers being given milky tea in a bottle.

Yes, drank tea from an early age (not from bottle and no sugar). Loads of it! Northern working class ‘done good’ family also.

No never. I think its absolutely bizarre to give a baby a bottle of sweet tea. Just give them milk, why do they need added caffeine and sugar.

I was born mid 70's and was never given tea. Why the hell would you give a baby/ toddler or child tea??? It's full of caffeine?????

Yes and my children do now. We are not working class.

No, never! I still don’t like or drink tea or coffee.
Never gave my dc tea either.
Water or milk until they were really quite big!

Northern working class done good = always drank tea from a bottle and then mug. No sugar though.

I should clarify as realise sometimes people think this means “babies”. I had it from age 4-5+.

Yes, tea since I can remember. Coffee in my teens.
My dd1 likes tea, but started drinking it aged 8, still likes tea and cake aged nearly 13. Dd2 isn’t that bothered.

My Grandma would order Gold Top milk from the milkman as a treat for the grandchildren at the weekend…thick cream on the top, 😋. We’d also have bacon sandwiches at her house…. Cholesterol awareness wasn’t widespread in our area. 🤣

Yes, and so did all the other children I was friends with.

Northern lower middle class and on occasion I give my 3yo a miniature tea cup of whole milk which has had my tea bag dunked in for a few seconds to make it a bit brown.

He likes to copy mum/dad and join us in an afternoon "brew"!!

Same here and most of my peers too.

Never drank tea as a child because I didn't really like it. Felt very hard done by when family would say it was my turn to make it 😠

Started drinking it when I started work and I had to make the morning teas/coffees. Still can't bear coffee.