To give my 7 year old alcohol free beer?

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I just gave her some Corona Zero and DP hit the roof saying I'm giving her the taste for alcohol.

A sip or two won't hurt. I Doubt a 7 y/o would even like the taste of beer anyway.

Way too OTT. Mine drink glasses of it. Not every day. Not even every week but they get it

Wow people have very strong opinions on this. I can’t see the harm in a kid having a taste of non alcoholic beer at all. Drinking alcohol is a very common normal part of British culture. Making beer the top secret forbidden mystery adult drink is arguably just as likely to cause issues. The idea that your daughter might become an alcoholic because she had a taste of non alcoholic beer is hilarious.

I agree completely with your husband. Why on earth would you want to give a little child a taste for alcohol?

i have offered my 7 year old a glass of wine or coffee with dinner occasionally, amongst the options available of squash, water, milk. He always says no, yucky. He knows that they’re grown up drinks!

However, i do this as his reaction is hilarious when he declines, but also I don’t want him to ever think that drinking alcohol is something he has to sneak about with when he is older. The fact that he could have a sip takes away the allure of it.

my mum was very strict and I used to buy drinks as a teenager to drink in secret with friends as there was this naughtiness about it. I had and still do have secrets from mum, but have a much more open and non judgemental relationship with my son, so far…

It may be alcohol free but it's sold and marketed as a drink for adults. It's normalising a non alcoholic drink as a pretend alcoholic drink.

Causes the most rotten burps and farts. She's going to be absolutely stinking. 😆

Does anyone on here realise that calpol has alcohol in it ? As do many cough syrups!

Can't see the issue. It's alcohol free FFS. Personally I think it's okay to normalise alcohol. Making it forbidden just makes it more appealing to children.

I live in the ME, & 'malted beverages' like fayrouz are huge here. They're basically fruity carbonated drinks, but enough yeast that they form a head when poured, so it is a BIT like having a beer, but not non-alcoholic.

I wouldn't turn a hair at my teenage dds chugging pineapple malted fayrouz or whatever, obviously, but in my house we treat anything called 'beer' with a discussion.

Beer tastes different. I don't in the least object to my teenage dcs liking the taste, because beer is quite yummy, but I would rather not have them think that non/low alcohol beer is what they'll be offered at parties. So I don't have any kind of beer in the house as a non alcohol soft drink - as far as we are concerned, beer contains alcohol.

I am happy for them to have the odd can of beer at home & they're generally fairly sensible SO far at gatherings...

This has to be a fake post as surely nobody is that stupid.

İf this isn't fake then wholeheartedly agree with the comment above!

I think the answers sound more fake to me - MN parallel universe were 7 years don’t know what beer is 😂

Apart from anything else the packaging of zero alcohol beer is designed to mimic real beer. I’ve accidentally picked up the wrong product before. To a child the bottle looks the same, the beer looks the same, it’s called beer, it tastes like beer…. Nope. Too easy for them to get confused into thinking real beer is acceptable for them to have and a bit too much like giving a kid candy cigarettes. It’s a product for adults - I’d let a 14 year old have some but not a 7 year old. In my household 7 year olds drink water or milk, occasionally squash or watered down fruit juice.

The people kicking off about this need to chill. As someone who has traced their ancestry to 5 generations of alcoholism, and who has next to no affinity for alcohol, the more you shroud alcohol with mystery and intrigue, the more desirable you make it.
I was allowed diluted port or a sip of beer on occasions, brandy for winter solstice (SAD) and tooth ache, bitters for stomach troubles. Made me dislike both and associate them with medicine.
OP your DC will be fine. If anything she

Yeah definitely OTT . Mine love the occasional can of coke. They still prefer water with loads of ice but it's certainly not forbidden to them

That terrible.. you should be starting her off with low strength beer 🤣 I remember being a kid and asking my dad for some of the beer he was drinking out of a bottle and my sister did too. It was horrible but I drank loads and he said we could have as much as we wanted. Turned out it was iced tea he was drinking. He used to get it from B&M or somewhere and we would think we were grown up drinking beer!

9yo: What does your, er, 'Seedlip and tonic' taste like?
Me: A little bit sweet and slightly bitter. Mostly I like it because it's cold and fizzy and full of ice, and being pregnant makes me SO THIRSTY ALL THE TIME. You can have a sip if you want, there's no alcohol in it.
9yo: Maybe I'll try a tiny bit. OK, I don't really like that, I'm going to pour myself a glass of milk.

Anyone like to pounce on me as well, for letting my 9yo try a sip of my non-alcoholic drink? Or for consuming a mocktail while pregnant? Honestly, this place sometimes.

@LordMooey 😂

I don't think it's the fact the child had a sip ,

I think it's the fact the op asked her if she wanted some .

Kids are curious- if mine had asked me at 7 for a sip of wine I'd have let them but without prompting I would be offering an adult drink - alcoholic or fake - to my 7 year old . That's what's weird . Like why would you encourage your child to drink ?

*wouldn't I mean

Why would you give beer to a kid? She’s got plenty of time to catch up on beer drinking in her teen/adult years! You are the parent here - just say no if she asks to have a taste. It might not seem a massive deal, and to be honest it isn’t really in the grand scheme of things, but you need to be firm here - she shouldn’t be having alcohol as a kid, as it could cause her serious harm.

A sip of alcohol-free beer is not going to open the door to a lifelong problem with alcohol just as buying a water pistol for a child is not encouraging them to be a serial killer.