13 year old daughter asking for wkd?

[jodie230104]

So today on friday my 13 year old daughter is having a sleepover with her best friend, and she asked me for some wkd blue for the sleepover. Shes pretty sensible but Im not sure what to say to her as I want her to feel mature and that im treating her like like shes mature but I dont want her to think its ok to just drink alcohol whenever if u know what i mean x

What are you going to say to the police when it all goes wrong?

@vaseofflowerss

That's a whole 5 years off the legal age in the U.K. 8 years off other counties legal age.

An immature 13 year old asking isn't really the problem. Kids will try their luck. I don't doubt some 13 year olds have a few alcopops they have sneaked out of the house or whatever, most parents wouldn't actually knowingly allow it though.

Your attitude towards it is worrying. Rather than just saying no, you turn to an Internet forum to check first

I could be wrong but in the privacy of the home, the legal age for drinking is from 5 years old, it's only needing to be 18 to buy your alcohol from supermarkets, pubs ect. (I was surprised too about the age limit, as I learned it when doing a law course.)

*in the uk that applies to.

"What age can children drink alcohol at home and what’s the legal drinking age in the UK?
It is illegal to sell alcohol to anyone aged under 18 and for under 18s to buy or attempt to buy alcohol.

However, children aged five to 16 are legally allowed to drink alcohol at home or on other private premises.

It is illegal to give kids under the age of five alcohol."

www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/4770864/age-children-drink-alcohol-home-uk-legal-laws-pubs/

She's 13, still a kid. I was always described ans very mature, sensible and many others adjectives like that as a child and was treated like i had the capacity ro make mature choices and deal with complex situationa in which most teenagers would have struggled. It was neglect and it didn't help me in life. It fekt empowering and i felt heard and seen and like the freedom and "trust" i got was somerhing i earned. I felt it was just me being treated fairly by my parents because i was a good student, kind person, inteligent, etc. But it was neglect. My parents are lively people and they meant well but they missed the mark terribly and it left some scars.

So sorry for the spelling mistakes! It's late and my english is not that good. Also didn't proof read.

I think it would be the same at any school jodie and I doubt that all her friends' parents agree to them drinking alcohol.

I'd never heard of wkd blue before but now I have googled it, I know it's a type of vodka.

You are right to refuse her. However it will happen from time to time, always has.

No, I wouldn’t be providing alcohol for a 13 year olds sleepover.

I think the first I brought dd1 alcohol for a party (2 small cans of fruit cider each) she was 15 and I had the other parents agreement. Dd1 recently had a leaving school party with alcohol, her and her friends are all 16 now and they had enough to get them merry, but not really drunk. Dd2 13 was allowed a friend there and they did have a couple of fruit ciders. However I know her friends mum, we’ve been friends for years and she had given full permission for this. I wouldn’t though but dd2 alcohol if it was her party. 13 is too young for that, I also wouldn’t let them have even 1 drink without the parents knowledge and consent at that age.

• wouldn’t buy dd2 alcohol if it was her party.

I can’t type!

Zombie thread

ZOMBIE!!!

She’d be old enough to drink now!

did not realise this was an old thread

Totally bonkers! If you feel the need to ply your young DD with alcohol the best way to do it is in the setting of a family meal. This reinforces a more healthy consumption of alcohol, based around food and family, not around drinking alone or with peers in a bedroom. However j won't be allowing my 13 year alcohol in any setting for a couple of years, I know from my husband's work with people with addictions that drinking young correlates with problems with alcohol later.

Ah man who dug this up? The kid in the OP is quite a bit older than 13 now

Time for boundaries and a chat about peer pressure. You don't want to be explaining to the emergency room staff that you got alcohol for your intoxicated 13 year old. Just tell her there's alcohol laws for a reason and you don't want her exposed to those risks. She will thank you.

I'd have laughed in their face. Hell no

Funny enough by law a 5 year old can legally drink at home if allowed by parents (google if you can’t believe it- I was shocked! ) 😳

I think it’s down to your judgment, as much as we don’t want our children to do things at a young age if they want to do it they will find a way, especially if friends are doing it.
If you feel she would behind your back then I’d personally feel safer knowing it’s in my presence where I can keep an eye rather than on a park and walking home alone intoxicated xx

Is this the Sunday wind up thread?

Er no fucking way!!!
If her friends parents think that’s ok at 13 if she was mine she wouldn’t be going
Ridiculous

Gah zombie thread

Nope! I’m pretty liberally but no chance on this., especially with a friend there. I wouldn’t be impressed if I was the other parent either.

🙈 zombie

Coming from a 13 year old we all want to try it. And WKD isn’t the worst thing she could be drinking right now. If you have said no and she decides to drink because she will because no makes us want it more then you won’t be there to be a guardian because you said no and she knows you’ll take it off her my mam let’s me have WKD in the house but I drink stronger drinks at