When do they start drinking coffee?

[Triathlete]

Our 3 year old will only drink coffee if it has lots of milk and 3 sugars. Is this normal? I'm a bit worried that he's getting a sweet tooth.

You'd be better with a fruit shoot

No, as long as he's not dunking a each time he'll be fine

Is this supposed to be a joke?

An Irish coffee helps them sleep.

Mine don't like coffee Lynli - So I just give them a baileys instead.

My lovely but dotty mother thinks I'm seriously neglecting my DS' development by not teaching him how to enjoy a cup of tea. Coffee's 'foreign' on the other hand, so it's OK not to have that.

Irish coffee at bedtime is fine if it is decaff.

My son of 21 has just started to enjoy tea, hates coffee and my 18 year old hates both. Fine with me. Have a glass of water instead.

Sorry I've not responded before, we've been in France. He'll now dunk a pain au chocolat in café au lait without sugar and eat it, but sitll insists on having sugar in ordinary coffee.

He's really hyperactive too. I must get him off the sugar.

hmm perhaps its the cafine not the suger

Never heard of a child as young as that drinking coffee, but each to their own I suppose.

If he's really drinking coffee, then, like mothersmilk, I reckon your hyperactivity issues are down to the caffeine.

is this real?

Actually, red, I hope not.

when i was little my grandma used to put tea in my beaker :) she also used to dunk my dummy in her brandy. This is spain if relevant.

Lola do you think brandy would help calm him down?