To think children should be allowed to buy wine

[LynetteScavo]

Quality wine, which is obviously going to be consumed by the parents during dinner.

The government could give out wine passes to families with an child old enough to go to the shop, but who also have younger children who don't want to be dragged out shop by a parent.

YANBU - but corked only - their feeble little fingers won't be able to operate a corkscrew.

Wow. One of the reasons I love MN is ideas like that.

Can you imagine! No room for abuse there. Nope. Not at all.

You're the parent. Put the younger kid in the damn car or buggy and go buy some booze.

Lynette....and quality wine is....??

the only way I got my hands on alcohol when I was 15 was by slipping on my mother's interview jacket, putting my hair up, and buying bottles of wine.

So

YABU

Because I used to neck it straight from the bottle and always threw up.

But what if you are a parent and all you can afford is cheap stuff? You will have to drag your poverty stricken arse to the shop yourself for your vino de plonko, while middle class kids prance home with Chateau de chateau moro.

suppose the parents fancy cider, to make a change, because the weather's hot? Or lager because they've cooked a curry (from scratch, toasting and grinding all the spices, of course)? Will your scheme be flexible enough to accommodate that?

tee

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I think we shouldn't just stop there - every 3 yo boy should have a tiny barrel strapped around their necks (containing a double shot of whatever poison the mum likes - gin for me!) so mum has some consolation when she sees what he has got up to ....

Itsjustafleshwound - you. are. a. genius.
I love that idea so, so much, and ds1 would look so cute with a little barrel.

colditz

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Ahhh

the summer holidays have been a bit too long for you, haven't they, Tee?

if it's more than a fiver does that count as quality? and perhaps only if bought in waitrose with said family wine pass?

Another one who was sent to the shop to buy fags (for my parents). I would have been 6 or 7 years old as I remember which house it was.

In my parents defence - they always sent at least two of us.

all the kids in the neighbourhood used to walk down the block to the mini-mart to buy fags for the folks in my 1970s childhood.

and we didn't even need to bring money! Mme Pham knew us all.

i'd come in and she'd say, 'Pack of Winston's for your papa then? Your mama still smoke Pall Mall?'

you know how kids play house? we played cocktail hour!

in art class in about y4, we made ashtrays for our parents.

I think this is a good idea

But only if the "quality" wine is a Spar 2-for-1 offer

Pmsl @Anyfucker

my dad always hand wrote a note on basildon bond for his fags.

wukter, you do have a point. But I think David Cameron would think it's a good idea.

I don't think the Waitrose only thing would work. Our nearest Waitrose is 13 miles, and that would take my 11 yo quite a while on his bike there and back. And I'd be gagging for a drink by the time he returned I'd have to bribe him with sweets.

Expat - you've just reminded me. We made aluminium ashtrays in secondary school (can't remember which year). I'd forgotten all about that.

My aunty used to send me to the corner shop to get her fags. We had to go to the counter with the money and say "Ciggies for Mabel* please!" and the man knew what she smoked.

*names have been changed

Oh, yes, making ashtrays in pottery class. Bet kids don't do that any more.

i think they should also be trained in the use of a corkscrew, how to correctly chambre and pour red, white, and champagne, and be trained in chosing wines to match the event/ food on offer.

The OP simply doesn't go far enough.

I think older children should also be trained in the mixing of cocktails and allowed to purchase spirits.

We don't make ashtrays in school but maybe we should. Most of the kids come in with their clothes and books stinking, and I suspect some of the older ones (primary) smoke.

and they should be trained how to place their parents in the recovery position, should they become insensate from drink

safety first !