Wwyd, Buck's Fizz for children aged 6 and 3?

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Or not, ds1 has asked for it as me and dh, normally have it, ds2 can't have it not that he willl know, so he'll be having soda water in a orange glass, to him it will be fizzy pop. Or do I pretend to do Buck's Fizz, fresh orange and lemonade/soda water

I'm thinking the latter, but dh says a little topped up with lemonade won't do any harm?

Okayyyyyyy....

Reading on i realise this is about mil.
They are your children, if you don't agree with her 'ways' you don't have to go along with it.
Just say no

Just say no. My kids think I'm mean I don't even allow them to drink coke (10 and 7 year olds )

My DC are having j2o glitter drink.

They are also 3 and 6

Noooooo too young, plenty of special non alchohol drinks out there that can be had as a treat. Or you'll be setting a precedent for future birthdays, parties, Easter anything.... Another 6 years I'd say ....

My children are having J2O glitter drink too. They are aged 10, 13 and 15. I would give the 15 year old Buck's Fizz mind, but she wouldn't want it.

I would let them have a sip of mine but not a glass to themselves. Perhaps about 10/11 I'd give them a watered down version.

Mother in law can sod off, if the parents say no that's what goes. Doesn't matter what was done in her day.

Dd is 8, I'd let her try a tiny sip of anything I was having but definitely wouldn't give her a glass of her own, even Bucks Fizz.

I guess it's a generational thing. I'm in my late 30's and even though my mum has always been more or less teetotal and my dad isn't a huge drinker, I can't remember a childhood Christmas when I didn't have a snowball at some point!

That said, times have changed and your MIL should not be going against you on this one.

Some people are alcohol intolerant. I wouldn't want to test this on my 6 year old just before Christmas

I can't believe your statement that your MIL wouldn't give your 6 and 3 year olds fags because they're asthmatic. Is that the only reason? So if they weren't asthmatic she'd be offering them a puff? FFS. You're the parent here. Get a grip and tell your toxic MIL to piss off.

I think your mil is bat shit crazy .

So the only reason the 3yo can't have it is citrus allergy, not because its a crime?

And the 6 yo just because its legal now he's over 5?

Well its perfectly legal for me to shove a traffic cone up my own bottom but that doesn't mean its a good idea or advisable.

Watch her like a hawk, people who want to do stuff like that tend to anyway whilst your not looking just so they can later say " see i told you so"

I'd say soda and orange.

Why? I've just been watching numerous episodes of Penn and Teller Bullshit.

Penn and Teller are both tea total and Penn claims to have never even tasted alcohol.

I thought, "What, not even as a child?". Then I realised we actually give kids alcohol when they are too young to understand and thereforw don't actually give them any choice.

I'd give it but I would do it the same way I made 'tea' when they were little, a splash of wine (1-2tbs) in a glass of orange.

isn't Bucks Fizz normally around 4% alcohol? so about the strength of beer. I'd let the 6 year old have a little glass, but not the 3 year old. I still think the continental approach to alcohol is the way forward, although i'm sure the health police would say otherwise.

I often wonder about our laws relating to age and alcohol in this country.

Genetically speaking we are more closely related to the Northern, Germanic/Scandinavian nations, rather than the Southern, Latin ones. When people start talking about the fact that children on the continent are given watered-down wine at a very young age and there doesn't seem to be the problem with alcohol that we have over here, I stop and think about all the old tales that came over here with the Vikings; most of these, as I recall, involved a lot of getting drunk and shouty...

Sound familiar?

(PS, I'd love to know if my thoughts are backed up by stats/research.)

I thought this thread was going to be about Cheryl baker and her skirt being pulled off. Yes that would be very inappropriate for a 6 and 3 year old (for being so cringe inducing), and so is alcohol for a 6 year old. YABU.

I am gobsmacked that a 5 yr old can have alcohol at home - why?

No to Buck's Fizz at age 6. Give him a sip, if you want, but no to a whole glass. Your child, your rules.

At that age I would not be subjecting them to either type of Bucks Fizz

I wouldn't give either of them alcohol. Trust your isntincts.

No and don't pretend either, provide a substitute (Orangina?) and tell them why. We used to get given orange juice and soda and pretend it was a Screwdriver.

I wouldn't. We'll be having Bucks Fizz tomorrow morning and the children with either be having plain OJ or OJ and lemonade. No way would I give them booze and mine are 3 and almost 6.

I've got them Shloer, Appletiser and glittery J20 to have with dinner so they can have a choice.

Alcohol isn't particularly good for you. I wouldn't give it to a little person who is still growing so fast and could suffer from very long term repercussions.

I would be giving orange juice mixed with lemonade at that age.

Mine have lemonade and orange juice while I have cava, I pretend there's alcohol in loaads of stuff to stop them wanting it. No darling mummy's Turkish delight is for grown ups as it has alcohol in.

More to the point, why sully good bubbles with orange juice?? Straight OJ - or other juice - for the kids, straight cava / prosecco / champagne for the adults.

Tell MiL you are in charge, and she might think you are being mean but you have thought about it and are "making your mind up" that they are too young for alcohol.