To think my DD 6 is old enough to try a sip of wine???

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My MIL it utterly outraged...but my parents let me have it VERY watered down from a similar age, and I'm not even going that far. Incidentally, I barely drink....

How old is she?

hardly a problem but what on earth is the point of it?

No its fine, my DD likes to say she l;oves champagne, ( a dribble in some fizzy orange ). I think a sensible attitude to alcohol is a good thing.

Not unreasonable..

To pissed to give rational and sensible argument fcor the reasons why.

Certainly not unraesonable tyough

There's no need, she won't like it anyway.
Wouldn't harm her though.

Oh sorry - she's 6. Don't know then. Would need to consider that without having had any myself! What are your reasons for it?

I let mine try if they want to - they are 5 and 2

I let them taste pretty much anything TBH

The 2 year old likes beer and sherry and likes dipping her fingers in and licking them

The 5 year old hates everything

more relaxed attitude to drink means not such a lot of curiosity when they get older. I was brought up in a pub so had sips of all sorts at v young age, like a drink now but have always known my limits and what it means to enjoy a drink, not drink till you fall over!!

I used to find red wine stains on my dd2 baby grow when my dad had been babysitting - he dipped the dummy in the wine and off she went to sleep.

dd2 does have a passion for red wine and I have a passion for this liquor someone got me its god

too much cheap booze?fancy starting a cliched scrap - try make it original/funny/interesting eh

Because she's curious and I think it's easier than explaining why she can't. I tell her, you won't like it, but you can try a little bit. She never does like it. But she does seem to like Daddy's beer....I suppose I just think to make anything this great, terrible untouchable thing only increases chances of kids getting curious in a not so good way in later life. Like NEVER allowing chocolate...

My dd is only 2.5 but my dh and I have resolved that, as soon as she can ask, she will get a taste of alcohol.

No idea if it'll have the desired effect but we're working on the theory that to treat it as forbidden fruit would only be to enhance its appeal.

I would like if my dd could, in due course, drink responsibly in front of us instead of to excess behind our backs.

Like onlygirlinhouse, I want her to have a relaxed attitude to drinking, and not see it as this exotic, exciting banned thing that she should go nuts on when she's a teenager and out of my sight...

I let my dd have finger of diluted cava at Christmas when she was 4. she drank a sip and promptly asked for juice instead!

I don't see the harm at the mo if it's well diluted with water but it might be trickier when she gets older to keep her at 1 dilute glass. My dd(7) is going on 17 already .

I am a firm believer in if they want to try it, let them but warn them they won't like it! ONLY if it is your own children though.

Many, many years ago, my little half brother asked for a sip of my wine and I though "why the heck not" so let him have one. Unbeknown to me, so were all the other guests when he was asking.

We spent FOUR hours trying to sober him up. It actually was very, very frightening. To think that a 2 year old was drunk.

He survived and is now aged 22 and is NOT a drinker at all. Funny that, maybe it is something to do with when he was younger.

eugh giving children alcohol -i am imagining gum-spitting-sitting-on-the-porch-parents bleating weeeell never did me any harm an i got three thumbs billy-bob

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With onlygirl on this one. My mum also gave me a sip of babycham or diluted wine at Christmas etc. A sensible attitude to alcohol from a young age is far better than it being some form of excitement that it totally banned and subsequently as teenagers end up pissed in alleyways etc.

In some European countries like France they regularly do this with their children at dinner and its well known they don't have the social problems with alcohol our country does.

Candlewax - i apparently got drunk in the same way when I was 4. Party, lots of drunk tipsy grown ups thinking its ok to just give her a sip, never did me any 'arm!

I have let my dc try beer and wine and my dd had champagne in a limo on the way to my friend's wedding which surprisingly she really liked! I agree with not making it out to be some big mysterious thing and its not the same as letting them have a puff on a fag, wine actually has health benefits does it not? Obviously not going to benefit a child from just a sip but its certainly not the same as cigarettes.

Um, I am divided on this one. I really don't think it does littlies livers any good having alcohol, even watered down, but I also agree with the forbidden fruit argument. View from this fence is great.

fags!Champagne in limo!righty you all from essex then?wee bicardi breezer for the pregnant laydee

My friend doesn't drink, he doesn't know how to control it and doesn't know when to stop. When he was a child he would get ice cream if he had a pain in his stomach and his mother used to pour some baileys over the top of it and soon he was having it most nights. He always says he can rememeber needing his ice cream before bed!

boozey slobbery mammies and drunk perma-tanned princess's -nice nae harm done.normal for MN