AIBU in thinking that people that pour tea into their baby's bottle...

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ARE CHAVS?

I've just seen a woman in the park pour a cup of tea into her baby's bottle, add milk and then give it to her baby. Is this some sort of chavy behaviour or do normal people do this?

AIBU in thinking WTF

Anyway OP you are BU because you said Chav.

Definition of hooray henry: A lively and ineffectual upper class man.

Are you a lively and ineffectual upper class man op?

I remember drinking tea with sterilised milk at my grandmas when I was a child , I don't think she was a 'chav' she was more a Hyacinth Bouquet type

I grew up in Ireland in the 70s - was drinking milky tea from about six month's old.

Got to be better than Cherry Coke hasn't it?

My DC had tea from a very young age and I don't and didn't fit the "Chav" criteria but you can think whatever you like FacebookHurtsWhatBrain. As my DC are not addicted to caffeine, in any way damaged or dead as a result I really couldn't care less.

You're trying a bit too hard to be controversial I agree, yawn

I wish my 19 month old would pinch my Rooibos tea, he is a staunch booby milk supporter, no sign of abating, refused outright any bottle, occasionally drinks some of the water out of a sippy cup I make sure is in easy reach of him but only as he thinks its funny....

I myself prefer the champagne of tea Darjeeling and quite frankly must be a chav as I think there's nothing wrong with the occasional Rooibos for a toddler and would actively encourage mine to drink it.

I remember my sister being given tea in a sippy cup so I'm guessing I was given tea too when I was a nipper. Dad was a teacher, mum stayed at home but was a nurse before she had us, she also breastfed us all and this was during the 70's.

I think it's one of those things like adding baby rice to formula, or even adding rum or brandy to formula - it was common at one point but not so much now, but there are still people who do it because that's what their parents did and it never did them any harm.

What is the fuss over tea? No caffine, no sugar, what's the bloody problem? It's the most civilised drink on the planet.

This thread is making me angry! Well done OP I am now officially Council Housed And (now almost) Violent!

Didn't we have a seventeen page thread about giving young children tea recently, replete with people who thought it was only one step down from using baby rice laced with crack?

I didn't know people who gave babies tea in bottles existed before I joined MN.

Its educational

Oh my baby has the occasional dabble in tea too. And tbh if I didn't come on mn I wouldn't know it was such a terrible thing to do...

Oh dear. I have failed completely as a parent. DD used to have tea in her bottle and Greggs sausage rolls and was on solids before she was 6 months and had chocolate when she was only 7 months old!

She didn't have Fruitshoots though, didn't like, and still doesn't like, strong pre-mixed juice drinks. Phew! I might have clawed back some respect!

I like tea in bottles. It makes me think of simpler, happy times. Before handwringing overthinking types spoiled it for everyone else.

Babies don't need or want tea and nothing should be given in bottles past about 6-8 months. Don't like the word Chav or think it is a chavvy thing, just misinformed!

Is it the tea or the bottle that is the problem? Is tea in a sippy cup a problem? Tea in a tea-cup? Rooibos in an earthenware teacup handcrafted by the DC themselves at Montessori school?

DD (2) makes her own tea in a little teacup (milk in second) whenever I make a pot and I'm called Penelope.

What about people who put the cup on the floor for the dog to share?

what if you are council housed and not violent- can you just do the tea without milk?

You need to be violent for the tea. It's more important than housing in my opinion. After I had it in my bottle I would go on the rampage for days, beating up pensioners.

My granny says thats what people done with thier babies in her day and my mums day but luckily we're Scottish so can't be chavs we don't have them here :)

OP, is it the bottle that's the problem rather than the drink itself?

lola88 Am about to move to Glasgow was warned about Neds.

Isn't the tannin in the tea the problem for childen?

Tea contains tannin(sp?) which stops absorbtion of iron.