Christmas day drinks for teens?

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Just wondering really what everyone else does.
I remember being allowed a little bottle of Castaway with my Christmas dinner when I was 15 😁
Now I have teens of my own. Nearly 20 year old has never been interested in alcohol so has never tried it, 15 year old totally different though and you know he'd give a small drink a go if you let him. 🙄😁
Maybe a small bucks fizz or something?

Glass of bubbly with dinner.

My SN DC will be on the fruit shoots

My other one will be on a mix of
Non alcoholic kronenberg
Glass of wine with dinner
Elderflower water thing
The odd baileys
half shot of rum in cream soda or ginger beer

I’ll offer mine a glass of what we’re having. Wouldn’t but something for them specially- if they’d rather not drink then that’s fine.

DS1 used to have a thimble full (tiny old fashioned liqueur glass) of red wine. And fresh OJ with a tiny splash of fizz in it as buck's fizz.

I liked to get them fancy soft drinks too. Fentiman's rose lemonade or cool brands of cola or San Pellegrino Aranciatas.

And mocktails - they are good too - some favourite fruit juice and cordial mixes topped with sparkling water.

My teens like the different fruit ciders , wine is not really their thing .

I remember giving them Babycham. Does it still exist?

At fifteen whatever bubbles are on offer surely? glass of champagne or crement? They aren’t five.

I wouldn’t want to drink a Buck’s Fizz with my Christmas lunch. Mouthful of breakfast cocktail taste as I eat roast potatoes and gravy. Surely part of ‘learning how to have a drink’ is about what pairs well and what’s appropriate- not just having a drink for a drink’s sake.

Whatever you're having (ie. is on offer to the adults)if you deem it appropriate.

So you might be ok including 15yo in the breakfast bucks fizz, or the wine with lunch.

With maybe a 'no refills for U18s' rule.

I never understand why people cast around for sickly, palatable 'gateway' drinks to give to teenagers.

I mean, I can absolutely see why alcohol manufacturers do it (sweet pre-mixed drinks, fruity ciders etc) to create new customers...parents, not so much.

I agree with this.

You drink whatever is on offer/appropriate for the setting. If you like it- fine, if you don’t- have a soft drink instead. I wouldn’t allow them to have a WKD Blue or a Smirnoff Ice with dinner just to ‘have a drink’.

Haven't seen babycham.for ages, wondering if it's still about myself now!

This ^

Castaway, there's a blast from the past...

As others have said offer what you’re having with a meal eg bucksfizz at breakfast, champagne at dinner time. Definitely no refills and no alcopops.

Maybe a half of a nice ale / beer in the afternoon.

In a fit of nostalgia I bought Babycham a few years ago
It was vile 🤣
Also bought Cherry B at the same time
That was vile too

Used to love them, anyone know if they're still around?! Would love one for nostalgia purposes 😁

I got some Babychams and Cherry Bs a couple of Christmases ago from a friend as a blast from the past. It really was, but I can't say I enjoyed as much as I used to!

My teen who likes a drink will probably have a glass of fizz to clink glasses, then a can of cider in front of the telly later. Pure class.

15 year old ds will have a champagne flute of Buck's Fizz in the morning (really weak pre made one from Sainsburys, about 3 units of alcohol in the whole 750ml bottle). I would also allow him a small glass of wine with lunch but he doesn't like it and has requested Schloer instead. He may have a small Baileys or a weak snowball or a shandy in the evening instead

My kids are 10 & 12 and have a tiny bit of whatever fizz we're having at any special occasion (at home). They've done so since around age 7-8 and it's what my parents did for me. I've never been that fussed about alcohol as drinking it was just normal. As a teen, my friends who weren't allowed to drink at home were totally obsessed with drinking. By 15 I think I'd let them have a full (small) glass but no refills

By 15 a glass of bubbly before dinner and a glass of wine with.

My 19 yr old is Prosecco crazy and drinks what she wants and my 16 yr old will be drinking bottles of lager until I notice he is tipsy or had more than 6, then I’ll say enough is enough

Judgemental much? I'm guessing it was aimed at me when I mentioned kronenburg non alcoholic cider.....

Instead of it being a "gateway drink" how about looking at it as the opposite. By normalising non alcoholic alternatives, your encouraging their use in situations where you might want to order a more "grown up" drink but not want the alcohol

Tbf if I could switch to non alcoholic everything I would but as yet rum, a decent red wine and baileys i haven't a palatable alternative for.

A blastaway from the past... Mixed with a bottle of K cider.

I'd be asleep before dessert was served after a couple of those these days!

My teens (18 and 16) have requested sparkly J2o like usual. They have absolutely no interest in drinking at all.

I used to have snowball at Christmas but WKD is a great first drink

Blush or white wine spritzer goes down well here.