15 / will any of you be allowing your 15 year old some Drinks on Xmas day eg sup of desert wine?

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As above inspired by other thread...maybe hot milk with a Tony shot of bailey?

Or is it a no no.

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Yes I'd allow this at 15. I would not however buy alcohol for my 14 year old to take to a house party with no parents present. 2 wildly different scenarios!

Not a bad idea. It will definitely lose an element of mystique if offered by an uncool parent, rather than by a dubious peer in a back alley.

I'd have no issues having some baileys, shandy or wine

What’s with giving them these horrible festive drinks they won’t like the taste of. Get a couple of fruit ciders or alcopops in. Basically 4% Robinson squash/lemonade

Perfectly reasonable to let them have an alcoholic drink in a safe and familiar environment and have a laugh with them if they overact feeling tipsy after 1 unit.

Live for summer of course,I'd never do that!!

Just wondering what other 15 year olds will be allowed during dinner

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This is the great debate isn't it. Allow it and help them drink responsibility or don't and risk them eventually getting drunk elsewhere

My son's 14 and will have a fruit cider

At 15 the worst thing you can do is make alcohol a forbidden thing, rendering it hugely desirable and something to be done in secret.

I was having very weak wine spritzers at the age of 10 every Sunday with a roast. It certainly took the shine off alcohol being taboo. I do the same with fizzy drinks and my little ones (and will probably do the alcohol later too). A little bit now and then and it isn't a big thing when they are older. So yes let them enjoy a small alcohol drink.

My 15 year old son will certainly have a glass of wine with his Xmas dinner. He also has a glass of prosecco when we celebrate a family birthday or new year. I think it's a good idea to do this in this setting, certainly takes the mystery away

DS is 18 now, but I'd have had no problem him having an alcoholic drink at home at 15.

He'd not have drunk it though. He still doesn't now.

At 15, (year 10/11) we sometimes let our oldest have some drinks at home, with us. We didn’t send him off at 14 (year 9) to a house party with alcohol with no responsible parents. He has a sensible attitude to drinking now he’s an adult.

DS16 asked for 3 bottles of fruit cider for over Xmas, they will probably still be there in the New Year.

He does like a Baileys hot chocolate though so I’ll make him a couple of those.

Mine can have a Bailey’s - she’s not keen on anything else anyway at the moment!

Mine will have Buck’s Fizz at breakfast and a glass of champagne later.

I also buy the alcohol when he goes to a party. I’d rather buy him a bottle of Smirnoff Ice to take than him get someone to buy neat vodka.

They all come with bottles of vodka to parties from about 15 around here.

15 was the rule in our family at Christmas, apart from the year when the youngest grandchild was 14 and it seemed a bit mean to leave him out.

DD13 has been allowed cider or a glass of wine for Xmas / Hogmanay / Birthdays since she was 12 if she wanted it. I really don't see the big deal.

I reckon desert wine would be quite dry for a teenager.

My 12yo and 15yo will get offered a Babysham at the table and shandy to go with their nibbles.

I don't see the harm if they are taking a small amount with food during the family meal.

I never did but we don't have alcohol in the house so it wasn't an option.

My first proper hangover was Christmas Day when I was 15.

Good times.

Mine are a lot younger but at 15 i'd have no problem with this. I was always allowed a bit of alcohol at family parties and I am only a light drinker now in adulthood. The relaxed attitude definitely helped me as there was never any mystique around drinking.

As an eldest sibling and cousin I am very triggered by this

No, there won't be any alcohol in the house anyway. We have fat coke instead.

There'll be cognac in the pudding but the dc's moan if it's too strong so they'll just have a tiny drop in that.