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Buck’s Fizz and children

104 replies

Laura1192 · 04/12/2020 11:28

Can you help me settle a debate. At what age do you or would you let your child have a small glass of Bucks Fizz on Christmas Day?

I’m not a drinker and a glass of Buck’s Fizz on Christmas is the most I have so it seems crazy considering it to me, but my husband recalls drinking it very young.

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AliceMck · 04/12/2020 11:38

I remember turning 8 and being excited as I thought I could legally drink babycham. I was drinking it well before turning 8, my DH was the same. I think it was a very common thing when I was young, I know lots of people who had babycham, Buck’s Fizz etc as kids.

Fivemoreminutes1 · 04/12/2020 11:40

Traditionally it’s two parts champagne to one part OJ, but in our house it’s more like the opposite and I’ll be letting my 12yo have a small glass this year.

mooncakes · 04/12/2020 11:43

I'd probably let me 10 year old have a sip if he asked, but I can't imagine giving him a glass for years. What would be the point?
Who wants their child to get a nice alcohol buzz/drunk on Christmas day Confused

Changethetoner · 04/12/2020 11:44

14

Megan2018 · 04/12/2020 11:47

I used to have a sip at 5, only a sip though. Own glass at about 10

WhatAreWordsWorth · 04/12/2020 11:51

My mum let me have a very weak snowball or a small glass of Baileys around Christmas time from when I was 7 or 8.

SpamIAm · 04/12/2020 12:00

Maybe a small glass aged 12. My kids are nowhere near that age yet though so hard to say how I'll feel then. I'll be offering DD orange juice and lemonade this year.

ClashCityRocker · 04/12/2020 12:04

I'd say early teens nowadays seems to be the norm in my circles for a single glass of weak bucks fizz.

That said, I had a small glass of blue nun with Christmas Dinner and a bottle of stout with the evening board game from a fairly young age...like a pp, I don't really see the point. Surely kids don't need alcohol to feel all warm and glowy on Christmas day? I suspect my parents had notions of being 'continental', as they saw it.

GreenGordon · 04/12/2020 12:08

When I was a toddler my parents told me I would crawl around under the tables at parties, popping up to slurp from carelessly unattended glasses. My own children had weak Buck’s Fizz from about 8 or 9, but honestly alcohol is not compulsory and it’s fine for them not to have it, especially if you are not much of a drinker yourself. I’d avoid treating it as some kind of coming of age ritual.

AdoraBell · 04/12/2020 12:12

My DDs were 14. I never had any alcohol until I was 16, moved out and went to the pub with work friends. DH didn’t have alcohol until he was 18, again going the pub with work friends.

pastandpresent · 04/12/2020 12:23

I personally don't like taste of champagne, so I wouldn't have liked it as a child. We used to have fake kid's champagne with no alcohol as a child for Christmas.

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user1495884620 · 04/12/2020 12:26

You would be better off asking your in-laws than relying on your husband's memories. He may well remember feeling very grown up and drinking bucks fizz like the adults but his drink may well have been made with lemonade or just the tiniest splash of champagne.

VillageFete · 04/12/2020 12:31

We always have a chilled bottle of M&S Bucks Fizz and their Clementine and Cranberry Bucks Fizz with breakfast on Christmas morning.

Daughter started having a small glass of it when she was about 9? Toddler obviously gets none... yet.

Tingalingtortoise · 04/12/2020 12:43

I’d say a small glass from 10. It’s only once a year!

JM10 · 04/12/2020 12:44

I don't think I did until I was about 15. It's never occurred to me to give my dds any, dd1 is 10 and perfectly happy with some schloer

SleepingStandingUp · 04/12/2020 12:47

We were probably pretty young for something similar but it was the 80s. DH was much older and as much is much less relaxed re under 18s and alcohol.

I'd prob let them have a sip from 12/teens but I know DH would say 16 at least

AdaColeman · 04/12/2020 12:50

I"d probably give a twelve or thirteen year old a small glass, but for younger children I'd make some with fizzy water but served in a fancy glass.

Crystal87 · 04/12/2020 12:54

My 12 year old has low alcohol drinks now and again usually on special occasions and I limit them to 2 or 3. I think this approach is better than not allowing anything at all until the minute they turn 18.

thelegohooverer · 04/12/2020 12:54

My dc still think that fizzy drinks are only for adults 😂 I’m not going to give my dc alcohol as there are alcoholics in my family, but I’m not going to try and stop them drinking either when they get to an age of being curious. I think alcohol is something to be responsible and mindful about, rather than a rite of passage or a way to rebel.

Crystal87 · 04/12/2020 12:55

But for one small glass of Bucks Fizz, I'd say maybe 9 or 10.

happymummy12345 · 04/12/2020 13:01

I was allowed a small glass of wine at Christmas, new year and Easter from when I was 7. So the only issue I have is ruining fizz by adding orange juice.

PigletJohn · 04/12/2020 13:08

If you made it with 2 parts OJ to 1 part fizz, it would be around 4-5% alcohol, so I suppose a small glass would be tolerable.

If you made it with OJ and soda water, it would be alcohol free and I suspect they'd enjoy it just as much.

Made with fizzy lemonade even safer (except for their teeth) and they could have as much as they want.

micc · 04/12/2020 13:12

I think I was the same as most people, around 10-12. I never really had any interest before. From 10 ish onwards my mum would occasionally give me a very small glass of wine with a Sunday lunch or on Christmas. Like very small and she would sometimes put lemonade in it. I just liked the taste and felt very grown up with a nice glass Haha, my sister who is a year older never had any interest and hated the taste until she was older.

evilharpy · 04/12/2020 13:22

I really can't remember. I used to get a little bit of the foam off my dad's can of stout in one of my red plastic teacups from my toy tea set when I must have been 5 or 6, can't imagine there was much alcohol in a teaspoon of foam. Neither of my parents were big drinkers though and we'd have been more likely to have a bottle of Schloer on Christmas morning.