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I thought a perk of having children is they can make you a cup of tea

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Truckrelented · 16/07/2011 09:31

Now my daughter has just started having an occasional cup of tea.

I've no idea if this breaks some MN code (fruit shoots, and Greggs) and I don't really care.

But my Dad used to get us to make his tea, my daughter says I make the best tea in the world, so I always end up making it.

Now I'm not very good at intuition etc. but I reckon I'm being manipulated.
I think she'll go far.

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RuthChan · 16/07/2011 20:52

Yes, I'm with you on that one.
I spent my childhood making cups of tea and coffee for my parents too, despite never drinking the stuff myself.
I think she should be making them for you rather than the other way round.
Her manipulation skills are obviously developing well!! :o

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Truckrelented · 16/07/2011 21:04

Ah, but I make a nicer cup of tea apparently.

And is always followed by:

'And as you're in the kitchen can you bring the biscuits in please?'

I'm very proud of her.

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surfandturf · 16/07/2011 21:07

I used to make my parents brews all the time - can't wait till my DC's are old enough to boil the kettle

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Truckrelented · 16/07/2011 21:09

I'm expecting for my daughter to quote me a health and safety guideline that stops her from making the tea.

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bigbuttons · 16/07/2011 21:09

My 6 all drink tea and many of them make a really decent cuppa. My 5 year old is just starting to make tea, she's really rather good! I actually told them today that I'd only had them so that i'd got someone to make me tea

GingerbreadDad · 16/07/2011 21:13

I am shocked and horrified that you allow your children to handle hot water.......A cold can of beer that's safe

TrillianAstra · 16/07/2011 21:14

I make a nicer cup of tea apparently.

She won't get any better at making tea if she doesn't practise!

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Truckrelented · 16/07/2011 21:27

I don't drink beer when my children are here. I'm a good boy.

I was just impressed at her tender years that she'd already learnt (or learning) how to wrap me round her little finger.

Actually, I've just realized that she says my porridge is nicer as well, and sandwiches.

Well I'll placate myself that I'm making sure she isn't going to be anyone's dogs-body.

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edam · 16/07/2011 21:51

Yeah yeah yeah, all that 'you make such a lovely cup of tea' stuff is what my Mother used to tell me. When I was too young and innocent to realise she was exploiting me. And I had a family friend who always had me on washing up duty. She was very houseproud, even ironed her dh's and sons' underpants, but for some reason always had pots in the sink (at least, there were always pots in the sink when I went round, there may be some element of planning there now I think of it) and I just couldn't bear dirty dishes, had to get them done.

Can't wait until ds is old enough to handle the kettle - at nearly eight I still don't think he's tall enough but it won't be long, surely?

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Truckrelented · 16/07/2011 22:22

I don't mind really, I just think it's quite funny.

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edam · 17/07/2011 00:23

yeah, I know, it is sweet. But IMO it'd be even cuter if it were ds making ME the tea.

GetOrfMoiLand · 17/07/2011 00:27

There is a very narrow window of opportunity when your children deeply desire to be considered old enough and use the kettle to make you endless cups of tea on demand.

It is about 3 weeks when they are 9.

DD is 15 now and deliberately puts too much milk on so I never ask her to make me tea

edam · 17/07/2011 00:28

ha, getorf, your dd is smarter than me, I believed all that 'you make the nicest cup of tea' thing until well after I'd left home.

qo · 17/07/2011 00:33

"It is about 3 weeks when they are 9." - absolutely spot on!

It's the same as when you first start letting them go to the shop for bits. To start with they ask 10 times a day if you need anything from the shop - make the most of this period, as soon they'll be looking at you like you've asked them to eat a lump of poison if you ever dare pluck up the courage to ask them to go!

madhattershouse · 17/07/2011 00:38

My ds is 11 and makes a mean cup of lovely strong tea. My step-d is 22 and still makes tea that looks like dishwater.. It wouldn't be an issue but in the 2 weeks she is here a year she offers to make them constantly, she is a tea fiend, but they are undrinkable!

GetOrfMoiLand · 17/07/2011 00:40

Same as when they learn to cook - dd LOVED the responsibilty initially when I tasked her with making the family dinner one night a week. We got gourmet grub for a good while, then she started viewing it as a boring chore, and we get something deeply boring like pasta pesto, or jacket potato and cheese now

GetOrfMoiLand · 17/07/2011 00:41

Or 'I can't make dinner tonight mum, have got revision' knowing that I will never question that

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