to give 14mo dd decaf tea?

[ChunkysMum]

DNan gave Dd tea when she was looking after her. Since then Dd is always wanting mine. Given half a chance she'll down half a cup and screams if I with hold it making tea breaks not very
restful.
Would it be so bad to give her her own cup of decaf? Us it bad for them? At the moment I'm only giving her milk and water.

I've been doing a bit of reading (googling) on decaff - the process isn't that great actually to get rid of the caffeine, pretty shocking really. I have stopped drinking it now and have gone back to just having normal weak tea and not late in the evening.

So I would go for chammomile or peppermint, fennel is nice too.

The tannin in the tea can stain baby teeth quite easily.

Why not. Quintessentially English drink, put the cricket on the radio whilst drinking it.

I would give fennel tea. It's sold as a baby tea in Germany suitable from 2 weeks old

If a child that age is going mad for a cup of tea like the one given by Nan, a cup of cammomile, fennel or fruit tea isn't what the child is after. It's a completely different drink.

A cup of very milky weak tea now and again won't hurt.

Very rarely does a child actually want tea ime - they want the attention and feeling grown up drinking a grown up drink just like nan/mum/dad does.

Pffft. Go for it.

Milky sugarless tea from early doors in our house. Certainly at six/seven months and above. Same for me when I was small and a veritable plethora of cousins both before and after.
Didn't do any of us any harm and all mine function quite nicely with just the occasional brew now they're older.

Panic not and give 'em a brew I say

The odd weak milky cuppa will not do any harm!

I used to buy clipper organic decaf tea and ds had the odd cup of it and loved it. And we gave him the odd cup of tea when we were out. It didn't occur to me to care what anyone else thought!

Nowadays (he is 7) he still likes the odd cup, but if we are out he would rather have a babyccino or a lemonade, or sometimes a coke....especially if we are out with friends kids and that is what they are having. I never in a million years imagined letting him have coke, but I figure that all things in moderation. If I banned it all together he would crave it more and maybe try to get it secretly eventually! And I did wait as long as possible before he even knew coke existed, but bizarre pregnancy cravings for cold cans of coke put paid to that. I don't even like the stuff.

Oh and what scholes said. Totally true!

My DDs are 11 and 6 and have decaf tea, however they much prefer Camp coffee :)

All those advocates of herbal&fruit teas. Have you read the label? Mostly hibiscus in many. Otherwise, regular black or green decaff provides a wonderful brew of chain-terminating flavonoids to purge your free radicals. Don't worry about tanins if brewed according to the best 'old wives' methods, ie warmed teapot/boiling water/ poured within a few minutes and drunk hot(adults), warm(children). Hot tea, as the Americans call it is more refreshing than their abominable 'cold tea' because the 'hot' version distends the blood vessels making one feel a lot cooler. Appliance of science.