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

Puffpants either you are well posh or simply not dainty enough. On the basis of this thread it is impossible to say.

It might be a regional thing. I live in the East Midlands and most parents seem to round here, but not usually in bottles.

It might also be that since tea = crack in some people's minds most tea drinking is done furtively at home under cover of a thick doily.

I'm with you puffpants

Never seen or heard of this IRL. Only on MN for me. Have never met anyone who does this. Not judging it, just saying I didn't know it happened until I read it on here.

There is also the calcium issue - caffeine blocks uptake of calcium - which wouldn't be a problem at all if your toddler was drinking milk/eating lots of yogurt/cheese besides the tea, but if they were only drinking milk in tea it probably wouldn't be great.

Ok, shutting up now. Except to say - :) at the thought of a one year old knocking back an espresso

summer good point although if your child has tea with milk in at mealtimes this may be good because the calcium in the milk binds to the tannins in the tea and therefore inhibits the non-haem iron absorption inhibiting effect of the tea.

It is possible I may be overthinking this. Children should probably not just drink tea. And we should make sure they have a balance of both blackcurrant and orange fruit shoots in their diets.

Mine had tea in bottles, all my friends kids did as well or in sippy cups or soup or hot choc on cold day park picnics or sledging.

Me and my 4 dcs were out all the time in all weathers, hate being cooped up inside and soft play ewwww.. So they needed a warm drink.

What a load of old bollocks op, u judgy pillock.

Hecate's post really resonates with me - I grew up in an area with a relatively high level of poverty and there is something about milky tea in bottles which reminds me of that kind of hopeless parenting, and which I wanted to escape.

I must say though I haven't seen tea in bottles for years. And I should shut up anyway as dd is a tea fiend and has been since she was quite young.

Tbh it's not like anyone is giving there babies 5 cups of tea a day is it??

Hopeless parenting?? Really

Why is everyone pretending they don't know what chav means? I hate that sort of disingenuous nonsense as a way of scoring imaginary points . (And I hate tea in bottles too)

The local parlance around here is 'Charva', and I wouldn't even associate a Charva with needing to live in a council house and violence. There are a few characteristics which define a charva when it relates to parenting:
*baby has peirced ears
*baby has one of those giant silver dummies hanging over their buggy
*baby's buggy is addorned with a silky, frilly foot muff usually with ribbons in their sports teams colours
*Their school age children walk around talking with their dummies in
*The babies and toddlers have tea in their bottles
*In the summer they drag their living room sofa onto the street and set up camp there all day drinking Carling

Therefore, I associate tea for babies in bottles with the above.

Chav (vile word) doesn't mean council housed and violent, some twat made that up.

It also doesn't stand for cheltenham average (wish it did though)

Its a word which comes from the romany for young lad.

Chav (vile word) doesn't mean council housed and violent, some twat made that up.

It also doesn't stand for cheltenham average (wish it did though)

Its a word which comes from the romany for young lad.

i can remember my mum berating her friend for pouring tea into her DC's bottles WITHOUT USING A TEA STRAINER!!

poor child was blue in the face trying to suck on it but the leaves blocked the teat

Gnocch then you are completely wrong

I didn't say that tea bottles are hopeless parenting.

Just that there was a lot of hopeless parenting which I witnessed as a kid and in my head that is associated with tea bottles - very similar to hecate's post upthread.

in what way am I wrong, I am telling you what I associate the word with, not giving a dictionary defenition. Unless you think the people I see on the streets around me doing the things I list are a figment of my imagination.

DD had tea in her bottle twice, first time my mum put it there, the second time it was DP. I was a bit cross, which must mean my family and DP are chavs, and I am middle class.

I was cross because I didn't know whether it was against the "rules" or not. It didn't hurt her though and she didn't drink much. She's 2 now and is always running over and asking for a sip of my tea, and I let her have one but not all of it. I wouldn't have let my mum or DP fill her bottle with tea, they only put a bit in, and she loved it.

YANBU. Coffee is the better choice.

I wouldn't personally do it but my friend does for her 3.5 year old and she's not a chav. My 2.5 year old does not need caffine. She's wired enough on life

Depends what age really, after 1 i see it as ok, some toddlers like it, its tastes nice and as long as it is weak its not going to cause any harm.
My 22 month old has it luke warm and very weak and i don't class myself as a chav but then again what is a definition of a chav anyways
Theres alot worse things to be worrying about imo

Oh dear I was having essentially tea flavoured milk from like 10 months old, my mother is the furthest thing from a chav.

and 18 months is more toddler than baby HTH.

If you are council housed and violent I recommend Chamomile tea. It's very calming.

I actually laughed out loud at this.