Quick! Five News want you thoughts on giving kids "energy drinks"

[HelenMumsnet]

Hello. Five News want to know what you think about giving children Red Bull and other high-caffeine "energy" drinks - in response to this story?

Would you let your children drink them?

Or would you horrified at the idea - and why?

No way. Stupid idea. What next? beer and espresso, followed by a fag?

ok, i see from the original story it is a secondary school and beleive it or not some of you with toddlers - at some point your children will have their own pocket money and will buy their own drinks.

So work hard on them NOW as to why they shouldn't drink the vile stuff when they are teenagers....
with coke, I showed them how it cleaned limescale and to imagine what it would do to their teeth. For red bull, I may need to tell them it makes their breath stink or something

I would have been drinking it at 15/16 to get through coursework/revision sessions tbh.

I don't think they should be in school, but I don't think any fizzy should be in school due to the nightmare it makes when it is spilled.

Hecate, that's what I like though

< sober face > Very Bad For Children

me too

No way.

why would i want to give kids more energy "ooh here you go...drink this then act like an idiot fr a couple of hours and make my life hell"

it's a good school and an excellent policy - i know this from experience

i don't know whether there is a legal age - but out local spar refused to sell my 16 year old an energy drink.

which i think was bloody brilliant

Time enough for energy drinks when they are at university and writing their essays at 2am the night before a 9am deadline. Back in my day we had to manage that on Pro Plus alone...

louii, I don't think any studies have been done in relation to energy drinks and all the young sports playing lads who have died over the past few years, because they have been identified at post mortem as having hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a condition which occurs across all racial groups, was first identified long before energy drinks became widespread, and appears to be inherited as an autosomal dominant trait.

My same age cousin died from that on his bike when we were 17

I really cannot think of ANY reason why a child would need an "energy drink".Children have enough energy as it is. Red bull is absolutely packed with just about everything I do not want my dcs to drink.(caffeine and LOTS of sugar amongst other things)

red bull

I can't see what is 'news' about a secondary school banning energy drinks. The school I work in banned all canned fizzy pop years ago, and a good thing it was too.

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
Wrong.
I dont believe in drinking high energy drinks myself and would be furious if anybody gave my daughter a high energy drink.
Plus, she's like the bloody energiser bunny anyway and her on a high energy drink would throw me over the edge

my ds has just got into these.
i don't like them. i don't see the point, and what is it with these so called sports drinks, aren't they just loaded with sugar?

As it's secondary school and it's probably paid by pocket money, it's all about education rather than telling your children no I reckon, just like the fags and booze.

I do youth work with teenagers who look almost stoned sometimes and say they've had 'a few' red bulls. I also had a friend during GCSE's who got addicted to coffee (in the good old days) and couldn't get to sleep without it. It was quite worrying as she would get the shakes. I wonder if people think it's alright for teenagers to drink double espresso's from Starbucks? In my town, teenagers are permanently in the coffee shops with the money their parents gave them to go away and leave them alone.

Personally, I get the shakes on half a can of red bull anyway but, no, no, no!! It shouldn't exist for anyone!!

Fuck no.

No-energy drinks, that would be a different matter.

They go much faster if you give them cocaine

Absolutely not. My kids dont get fizzy juices with caffine in them either. I wouldnt dream of giving my child energy drinks, thats just wrong.

Do people really give things like redbull to kids?

Why the hell would you give your child Red Bull??

I wouldn't touch the high caffeine drinks for my DCs. On the odd occasion I've had them myself I've been bouncing off the ceiling - I dread to think what would happen to DS3, who famously went slightly nuts after one blue ice lolly.

I have, however, been known to give them chocolate to keep them going during a long day. So my issue isn't with the sugar - purely the caffeine.

no no no
children don't need them, they don't need caffeine it would mess with their blood pressure and also would affect Iron absorbtion I think - this is why tea and coffee should not be drunk when taking iron tablets

Over MY Dead Body
essentially

never !!!

people do that?!

I feel guilty about drinking them occasionally to stay alert when driving. If my DC are so tired that a drink of water isn't enough to keep them awake, they need to sleep. End of.

That said, my DC are small. I was drinking a lot of coffee by the time I was 17, so I guess it's not that much different..