to feel giving a 12 year old WKD is wrong.

[thecaptaincrocfamily]

Just been to a party where the parents of a 12 yr old boy felt this was OK. I worry abhout the child liver! I have no issue with parents just thier logic xx

YANBU...that's just wrong

A few years ago I worked as a site manager for a construction company that did a lot of work in schools. Once when I was working on a job in a primary school the headteacher told me that the week before they'd had to confiscate a can of lager from a 5 year old's lunchbox... when they spoke to parents they said it was in there because they'd run out of coke

the parents should be fined for even buying the drink,its disgusting a criminal record should be forthwith.lol

seriously a bottles worth no way and im pretty liberal

YANBU

Yuk no. 3 of mine are teenagers (14, 15 and 17). Recently 17yo drinks at parties/meals we're all at, but a couple of glasses of Chablis, champagne or bordeaux. Pity help her at uni when she's paying! Don't want her to go off to university without knowledge of ever drinking.

Dd2 had the misfortune to take some Peach Schnapps out of our garage and drink it before a school disco in the town centre aged 13. I can only imagine it had been in the garage about 15 years. Yum!! Was brought home by police. She's never drinking. Ever! Actually has different friends and different hobbies now so I'm not really worried!

Outlaws used to try to give them Bacardi Breezers from the age of about 11. Mad and horrible.

What is actually in WKD? Is it spirits?

Totally wrong, imo.

Nothing against a glass of watered down wine or a shandy with a meal from about 13 or 14 yo but alcopops are too tempting.

My 13 year old has small amounts of whatever we are drinking if he wants it. My now 18 year old was the same. I had wine with meals from the age of 8. I am quite happy with this. Last time he wanted any was Christmas but he knows if he asks he can have some. We have a house full of drink- none of my children have ever taken any nor drunk it without us. I think we need to
have a balanced view.

Based on my friends it was those whose parents banned alcohol who had the worst teenage problems with drink.

If wkd is 5 per cent that is the same as lager and less than wine. It is not something I would buy.

Ps. Watering wine is just wrong.

No way would I give DD1 (who is 14) even 1 bottle of WKD. Like others have said, maybe a couple of sips of wine or beer but no more than that. At 12 I wouldn't even allow that.

My parents regularly encouraged me to drink vast amounts of alcohol when I was 14/15, and still expected me to go to school the next day. It was child abuse!!!

Change
Not if you water it down with sparkling mineral water - white wine spritzer is lovely and refreshing in summer.

god 2 glasses of wine and my heads spinning.would never encourage a child to try wine in my opinion

Whoops- i meant it is wrong because it makes children think that wine is weaker than it is and so they can drink more. Like lemonade in beer or indeed vodka in alcopops. Pure alcohol generally doesn't taste as nice and isn't as inviting.

My wine is all carefully hand selected and generally not for glugging- no water is going anywhere near it!

Change
Ah, I see what you mean. Never thought of it like that, but you are right. Better they have a small glass of wine than watering it down and making it "harmless".

DH is from a wine growing area, and they put mineral water in wine in summer, it is quite common in Germany. Although that might be due to the kind of wine that they harvest - tends to be heavier, not as refreshing as some new world whites.

Sorry for going off on a tangent, OP.

Meh!

My mom used to buy me 2 bottles of WKD to drink whilst watching a film from 13yrs old if she was going out for the evening and I was home alone.

I used to feel really grown up, I would pour it into a glass and sip it through my film.

When I got to about 15 she'd buy me one little stumpy bottle of wine.

I grew up learning to drink responsibly and now at 24 hardly drink alcohol at all so it didn't turn me into a raving alchi.

Although if i'd have carried on living with my dad I probably would have as my step-mom didn't think anything of getting me trashed on ouzo at 11yrs old.