AIBU to feel sad that my 10-year-old prefers coffee over our family tea time?

[LoveMyLittleOnes]

Hi everyone, I could use some advice here. My little one is 10 now, and has recently taken a liking to coffee. Our family has always been more into tea, and he used to love joining us for tea time, enjoying the cuppa we made for him. Now, he makes his own coffee and doesn’t join us for tea anymore. Sometimes, I want to relive or share those tea moments with him, but he seems a bit resistan. Part of me wants to barge in and demand he join us for a proper brew, but another part’s screaming “He’s 10 going on 16 – let him live!”

Am I being a clingy wally clinging to the Tea time days? Or should I nip this flat white nonsense in the bud before he starts charging us rent for using the kettle? 😂"

Hahaha second troll post I’ve seen this morning

After getting a DNA, if the whole family are tea drinkers, my guess is that he was switched at birth!

But why would you give caffeine to kids, they're fucking wired already as it is 🤣

Even if it is but isn't it fun reading the responses? I love a bit of batshittery and fuckwhatery in the morning it puts me in the right frame of mind for the day ahead. Not forgetting having a lovely cup of tea at some point.

Because it is a tasty drink. And caffeine in such small quantities barely wires a moth...

This is typical better safe than sorry stuff. I bet there isn't a proven unsafe dose either, there is probably very little actual research because poisoning children with caffeine might be quite difficult to get past a University's ethics committee.

So we get flimsy wishywashy quasi scientific statements like this - only useful for posting on MN to score points

Throw all his stuff in the front garden and change the locks.

Goodness me. He's having a cup of coffee not a triple espresso, a couple of full strength Marlboro and a line of coke. Unclench. I promise you'll feel better for it.

I liked you. I agreed with you.
And then you mentioned tea...
😀

I spend my days trying to tire out my kids. There is no way in hell I'd give them caffeine, that's completely nuts 😆

When I went to high school at 11 the school served coffee to all of us at school dinners in the winter. I could have drunk it earlier at home if I'd been inclined to. We were given tea from baby hood upwards. Still here and unharmed.

But why take any risk when the beans can be decaffeinated by soaking them in paint stripper?! (Not serious obviously, but I really wonder how people risk assess in day to day life)

The voice of reason and sense!

Is this a joke?

How about you take your 10 year old to a coffee shop and sit with them get a decade coffee or whatever and you sit and chat?

why not follow there lead and do something they want to do?

I don’t know what’s more strange, the fact that you can’t cope with your child having a different hot drink to you, or the people on the thread who are soiling themselves at the notion of a 10-year-old having a cup of tea or coffee.

Thanks for the advice, love. After reading through all the posts properly, I see where I went wrong. I’ll have a real chat with him about the risks (and those caffeine papers), and maybe this time it’ll convince him to give juices a go. He’s never been keen!

I’ve thoroughly enjoyed this thread

Is this an AI thread?

This post made me remember that when I was at playschool (so about 3/4 years old), I'd come home and my mum would make us both a coffee! This was the 80s though...

Same neither of my kids like tea or coffee ,18 year old will drink ice tea
I dont like tea or coffee either.

I am more curious about this family tea session.
Surely in most families having tea (or coffee) basically consists on one family member standing up and going "Right I'm putting kettle on....who wants one?"
😂

Very true ,and then there, s all that nonsense about how people take it, milky,builders tea ,sugar etc 🤣