Who rules the roost? (would you give your toddler booze?)

[dejags]

You have probably had this programme on tele ages ago but out in sticks (arse end of Africa) it's only recently started.

Heres my point:

On tonights' show the mother gives the 3 year old son a beer and then later on in the show gives him wine (watered down but "thank goodness" he didn't notice).

I was shocked by this. Comments?

Exactly twinset. And gripe water used to be basically just alcohol.

And I'm happy to down a bottle of wine and then breastfeed...

I feel like I am a fully fledged mumsnetter now having managed to get myself told off!

Sorry - sloppy quoting on my part

"It is illegal to give an alcoholic drink to a child under 5 except under medical supervision in an emergency."

reminds me of when we were in crete and they used to bring out the raki at the end of the meal with the bill and in lots fo restaurants they would bring out kids cocktails (non alcoholic) in shot glasses. at this particular restaurant they brought the raki but not the kids cocktails ds who was 2 at the time grabbed one and necked it before i could grab it and promptly burst into tears!
He never touched the glasses before we said so again!

well if I stop posting you know it is because i have been arrested for plying children with alcahol.

sorry ladymuck, but i still don't understand what that means

If there is a doctor present and you have run out of coke, I guess, cm

I'd love to know what would constitute a "medical emergency" that would entail the child being given alcohol ...

DS 8yrs likes champagne (cheap fizzy Tescos stuff) and diluting blackcurrant usually at family celebrations.

My Aunt is Danish and it is the norm for teenagers to have beer or wine with family meals, has to be better than a bottle of bucky round the back of the youth centre.

my mothers side of the family is french so i'm used to the concept of children having a taste of alcohol and what you're doingtwinset is not as bad as i first thought as originally i read it as a full blown spritzer every sunday for a 3 yr old. its the concept of the original post that i find so shocking

Ah, makes sense now ... under medical supervision ... if the child doesen't sleep in hospital ... ah, fair enough

so were talking about medicine that contains alcohol rather than a g&t (could do with one of those for "medicinal purposes" but its only 4.30 here)

I had small amounts of wine on religious occasions from the age of 5 upwards. preferred wine watered or lemonaded down till I was about 18!!!! if I had discipline problems like that with my kids, it'ld be better not to drink till they were in bed rather than give them alcohol.

I had small amounts of wine on religious occasions from the age of 5 upwards. preferred wine watered or lemonaded down till I was about 18!!!! if I had discipline problems like that with my kids, it'ld be better not to drink till they were in bed rather than give them alcohol.

MTS you get off this site and into your bed with Harry Potter right this second young lady!!!

Falls asleep at keyboard

See you tomorrow for your punishment

i've finished Harry Potter, and DH is out on the ale. what else can a girl do

Ah well... just you wait for your punishment... DH is limbering up his duck jokes as we type

I really am off anyway to find muller rice! Before I collapse! (It's been like 3 hours since I had one!)

We were given watered down wine from the age of 8 with sunday lunch or on special occassions when we hit 14 we were alowed something a bit stronger with meals but no spirits till we hit 18 (honest we didn't mum) As a result neither i nor my sister ever felt the need to go out and experiment like a lot of our friends did. And we have never gone mad with alcohol I plan to take the same approach with my own children when they are older DD is 3 and the next one is due in six weeks time.

I'm with whoever said their dad's homemade wine put them off! I refused to drink wine for years; fortunately I have since seen the light! But I wouldn't give ds alcohol until he's 7 or 8 maybe, and like others would probably let him try some watered down wine at a Sunday lunch.

I remember my brother getting full glasses of wine at a German wine tasting and being completely bladdered even though he ate all the bread. He would have been about 6.

My Auntie in Law tells me that BIL was drunk at a wedding age 2.

my nan used to give me a shot glass of sherry on a night before bed when i stayed at her house. i think i was about 7 maybe.

and i gave ds a shot glass of wine to celebrate the new year (which funnily enough is all i had too) as it was just the two of us and i was heavily pregnant. he was 6 at the time.

best way to raise drunkards if you ask me. Disgraceful.

terrible

and NO wigwambam, I'm French and this is not the way we do with our kids !!

giving alcohol to a child will create an addiction and can lead to brain damage, even 'occasionally and watered-down'