To be a bit eyebrow raise when friend gave her 18mo ds coffee?

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Just that really. Let her ds slurp from her latte when we were in caffe Nero.

when my kids were young cold coffee or tea was regularly given to them in bottles. to be honest, i can't find any LT damage thats been done. And that was younger than 18 months.

Phases come and go about what's acceptable and isn't.

Was she fucking you up the arse with a cheese grater at the same time?

If not, YABU.

Sheesh, it's a slurp of milky coffee, unclench why don't you...

Eh, my dad let me try coffee all the time as a kid. I never liked the taste until I was about 10 but I always wanted to try some when he had it. He used to make me a REALLY weak coffee - a tiny drop of coffee with lots of milk. It made me feel all grown up!

YABU.

My 16 month old adores coffee, which I admit to finding baffling. I don't pour him a cup of his own or anything, but he has managed to help himself to the odd mouthful of espresso when sitting on my lap. I doubt the occasional sip will do anything serious to turn him into a caffeine junkie or prevent Vitamin C absorption.

He thinks babycinos are for losers...

SaucyJack !!!!

I really don't think a few slurps of coffee out and about is going to so much harm! YABU

a slurp from a cup isnt a big deal really in the grand scheme of things. 3 expressos a day maybe a bit different.

I wouldnt think twice about letting my 18month old have a sip of my drink but then at the same time i also wouldnt deliberately go out of my way to give any child caffeine theyre hard to keep up with without extra help!

I used to be given tea from the age of about 12 months not every day but a beaker full maybe once or twice a week and im happy to report i made it to adulthood :)

Yabu it is fine.

My kids are hyper enough without adding extra caffeine into the mix. Other people can do what they want with their kids though!

Well, let's hope you didn't really raise your eyebrows.

There not much coffee in a few sips of latte.

saucy

On holiday a few months ago, DH gave 20 month ds a bit of the foam of a liquor coffee that he had after lunch one day, as apparently he loved it. I was but funnily enough ds survived with no side effects. I don't think a slurp of latte is going to hurt her dd. yabu.

Yabu, what's it to you?

A sip fine, though I wouldn't do it.

I can say from a fairly solid background though that Iron Deficiency is rife and parents wouldn't be aware of it unless children are tested, so even if "it didn't do me no 'arm" I wouldn't advise a lot of tea and coffee.

DD always manages to sneak a glug of my tea in the morning. She is 2 and it hasn't killed her yet.

Well it certainly eats into my sympathy quota when she moans about them not sleeping!

i hardly think a 'slurp' of coffee will stop children drinking YABU

sleeping even!!

"Well it certainly eats into my sympathy quota when she moans about them not sleeping!"

YABU, if it was bigger in quantity and daily, then you would have a point, but not the odd sip.

Saucy Jack, I can't stop laughing!

For what it's worth, my 2 yo often noisily slurps our coffees, and gives an appreciative sigh. But he's not actually drinking it, no more than a tiny bit anyway. It's pretend.

DD always had a very milky decaf coffee in a bottle, once a day.

Oh and she used a bottle from 13 months to her 4th birthday.

She's a totally normal 9 yo now.

I'd be more concerned about the sugar than the actual coffee content, to be honest, though even that won't be a lot in a few sips.

What saucyjack said :)

I'd have been a bit eyebrow-raisey too, OP. But each to their own - they can do what they like so long as it doesn't hurt me or mine.

Yanbu, why give them it? There's no need!