Toddlers drinking tea

[springbabydays]

Does anyone else give their toddlers tea and how old were they when you started? My 16 mo ds is very interested in my tea doesn't leave me alone and likes it when I give him a sip. If I made his own for him I'd probably give him decaf and no sugar, but it feels too grown up for some reason?? I'd still rather give him that than juice though I think.

My 17 month old is very interested in my tea, and drinks from the empty cup. I put water in a little mug and call it tea, he's satisfied with that.

so people who don't want dc to have tiny amounts of caffeine.... Are they never, ever allowed chocolate either?

of course chocolate is far worse for you than tea generally

Normal tea is common? Odfod. Odfod to hell and back.

Mine both had milky tea, with sugar (shock horror) from a very early age, don't know exactly but definitely in sippy cups. They are now in their 20s, fine physical specimens with all their own teeth. They drink proper tea with no sugar. They didn't have fizzy drinks or any processed food though, if that helps with the being a bit common idea. :-)

I have always said no tea to my toddler because it is very hot. I have noticed friends giving their toddlers sips of their tea which they like but then they lunge for the tea cups and try and drink them etc - I know there is an issue with iron absorption but I was always more worried about scalds.

None of mine have ever shown any interest in tea - I have a cup on the go all day long! They do like having babycinos if we're out somewhere that does them.

I never drank tea until I was an adult though, I used to hate it. Although I did like dunking biscuits in my dad's tea- he eventually got fed up of biscuit sludge at the bottom and made me my own cup just for dunking.

yes my Polish outlaws did that too quivering

It's a class thing innit? We were weaned on tea, it's cheaper than squash.

Apparently it can prevent the absorption of iron so I give mine extra Guinness to compensate

Probably not so much a class thing as a generational thing. There wasn't much else to drink when I was small. You stopped getting (lovely) free welfare orange juice when you were 5, orange squash was a summer treat, and people weren't so obsessed by healthy diets as abundant junk food outlets didn't exist.

Central Europe Quivering, Central Europe!!