Do your 5 year olds drink tea?

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was a bit shocked when dd's friend's mum offered me and them a cup of tea. Didn't know how to say 'dd1 doesnt drink tea' without sounding like a prat. She had already given them one earlier apparently and dd1 said she had sugar in hers - cheeky mare, she's never had a cup of tea in her life

My 2.2yo has had tea every now and again since she was about a year. I don't make her a cup, she pinches mine, sometimes just a few sips, sometimes she'll neck half a mug when my back is turned. Even if she doesn't drink it she dunks her biccies/toast/apple in mine

I have no problem with it, she's not drinking it by the gallon.

DD always had a cup of tea for breakfast with me from toddler age onwards.

I don't think it is a terrible thing.

At one stage, a cup of tea was the only way I could get any milk down my then 2 year old - so we'd sit there watching Neighbours Question Time drinking our tea like two old ladies!! Always thought it was cute.

My 2.5 year old does sometimes pinch the odd sip of mine (tea no sugar) and she does sometimes ask for one if she's heard me ask hubby or family if they'd like a cup of tea (we drink Yorkshire tea).

Occasionaly I do let her have a small cup (not in a bottle) but it's so milky and weak I don't think the 'tea police' would even class it as such.

I'd have much more of a problem/issue letting her have fizzy drinks and the only other liquid she has is water or Peter Rabbit organic apple juice.

There are far worse things she could be having imho.

My 5 year old hads tea and has done since she was about 3. Very weak and very milky.

No, 7y DD doesn't drink tea or coffee. She has tried it and asked for it before - and been given a small decaf which was very milky, but she doesn't like it. She likes the froth from a latte and that is the nearest to coffee she has had.

I don't allwow her to have Coke either. She has had the odd sip from mine and claims to like it, but I am not convinced. Also she had half a glass on holiday in Florida in the summer and it did affect her behaviour - she was very giddy and hyper for a while after - a bit like after she'd had a Fruitshoot.

Tea police. lol.

Hahah, I started to read this thread and thought wow I recognise loads of people, which doesn't happen very often any more. I did a double take and realised that this thread is 5 years old!

What a strange one to resurrect!

And no my kids don't drink tea, although dd's [9] German friend does.

ds1 just turned 5 & sometimes asks for a cup of tea. I don't offer it but if he asks I make him one. Make it strong like mine but don't put any sugar in. He very rarely actually drinks it, think he likes the idea of being grown up more than the taste of tea.

My dd tried my tea once, and her face screwed up that much I thought she was going to implode!!!

I have a lovely memory of my "first" cup of tea, cant have been much older than 10. I remember sitting next to my nan, and I was sitting with a small cup drinking it I thought I was very grown up!!

Dd1 very occassionally has tea. She asks for it sometimes. "One sugar and not too much milk please" is how she requess it. But it's less than once a week she asks and she rarely drinks the whole cup.

She has been drinking it since she was about 4 iirc.

Tea? Coca-Cola? Coffee?!

Sorry, you're meant to LOVE this little people, right? Just checking .

Can't stop, off to mix my kids a G & T. My way of showing them I love them .

Or, I could just tell them NO, you can't have it! Now, there's a revolutionary thought....

it's a cup of tea, it's not crack cocaine.

Hear hear misshardbroom.

I love the assumption that we're giving them tea because they ask and we can't say no. Or maybe it's called bringing your children up how you see fit. Clever eh? And not comparable to alcohol, sorry.

DS2 has asked for a 'cup of tea' before when I'm having one. I've given him hot milk with the tea bag (used from mine) breifly dipped in it.

My 14 mo seemed quite taken with the cold cup of Redbush she slurped and tipped over the carpet this afternoon. I'm ecstatic as she barely touches fluids!

DD has 'kids tea' from Tesco. It's decaf, vanilla flavoured and has Mickey Mouse on the box. I saw it and couldn't resist
I make it with half milk in a little teacup, probably once a month or so.

Ds1 has a cup of tea occasionally. he always bloody leaves it, but he insists every time that he likes a cup of tea.

purplepatters, is it just the one unweaned immobile baby you have?

Some things really matter.

Some thingfs really don't.

focusing on things that do not matter will stop your children listening to you on the subject of things that really do.

EG

If I say "don't drink tea, don't drink hot chocolate, don't drink squash, don't drink gin, it's BAD and you will have a TUMMY ACHE"

They ,ight see their peers drink tea, chocolate and squash and not having a tummy ache, and decide that you must have been lying about the gin too.

DS2 is 5 and has coffee occasionally. We have a coffee maker that uses 'pods' and i'll make one for him with a used pod so it's very weak.
DS1 never asks for it so we don't give it to him.
They both love a Coke but very, very occasionally.
they both love Starbucks babycinos, which are just hot milk.

Purplepatters, the occasional cup of weak tea or coffee or Coke will not have any harmful effect on children.

Why did someone revive such an old thread?