Zero alcohol beer and children

[Larry Dickman]

Drink Whiskey or gin & if he asks for one let him try it, I doubt if he'll like it so wont ask again.

[Larry Dickman]

Fossilface said:

It's a bit too much like training wheels to me.

I don't know what the legalities are but he'd get a pretty blunt no from me.
It's like him asking if he can smoke a plastic cigarette when the adults light up.

Didn't do us any harm, cough!

[fergywales]

Give the lad a Becks Blue in the comfort of your home. It will scar him for life, stuff tastes like it is filtered through a tramps underwear, tell him it all tastes the same.

[NDA]

Leccy said:

NDA said:

I assume it's entirely legal to let a child have a zero alcohol beer, but is it right?! I'm uncomfortable with it.

Your son wants to do something that you're uncomfortable with and you ask about it on the Internet. Why can't you just say NO to him? He's 9 and you're the parent.

Do you want advice from total strangers about everything your son wants to do? Just say NO.
Are people now afraid of their children.

Get over yourself FFS.

Of course I've said no to him, I spend my life saying no to various mad requests from him. I am perfectly entitled to lob a topic up on here for discussion - that's what it's for, perhaps you haven't fully grasped that. I certainly don't need a lecture on parenting from you.

Go and post something useful on Mumsnet or something.

[Gunk]

NDA said:

Get over yourself FFS.

Of course I've said no to him, I spend my life saying no to various mad requests from him. I am perfectly entitled to lob a topic up on here for discussion - that's what it's for, perhaps you haven't fully grasped that. I certainly don't need a lecture on parenting from you.

Go and post something useful on Mumsnet or something.

We are very relaxed about alcohol around our children, mine are 8 and 6 and I have always let then try a little sip of wine or beer, just like they do on the continent. I would suggest you but him something a bit more appropriate to his age but let him try some of yours as a treat.

[carmonk]

Gunk said:

NDA said:

Get over yourself FFS.

Of course I've said no to him, I spend my life saying no to various mad requests from him. I am perfectly entitled to lob a topic up on here for discussion - that's what it's for, perhaps you haven't fully grasped that. I certainly don't need a lecture on parenting from you.

Go and post something useful on Mumsnet or something.

We are very relaxed about alcohol around our children, mine are 8 and 6 and I have always let then try a little sip of wine or beer, just like they do on the continent.

And see where it got them... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/nov/25/france...

[Gunk]

I still think most would agree that the pub and drinking culture is less extreme in Europe than it is here.

[Larry Dickman]

carmonk said:

And see where it got them... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/nov/25/france...

Being a sinic I'd guess they're just justifying another alcohol duty increase.

Edited by Larry Dickman on Saturday 26th February 13:30

[markmullen]

Tell him the old adage about non alcoholic beer, its like going down on your sister, it tastes roughly the same but is so very very wrong.

[WorAl]

markmullen said:

Tell him the old adage about non alcoholic beer, its like going down on your sister, it tastes roughly the same but is so very very wrong.

do this OP.

[samdale]

mig25_foxbat2003 said:

Angostura Bitters?

Let him have a no-alcohol Cobra and he'll be begging for a Coca Cola to take the taste away. Bloody stuff tastes like liquid Weetabix.

Though I don't think I'd like to try getting pissed on the stuff

[helmutlaang]

Get him a can of special brew and tell him if he can manage more than a few sips without either throwing up or collapsing in a drunken heap then he's more of a man than me because I cant!

[S13_Alan]

I remember being on holiday with Mum and Dad, and having lager shandy, I remember drinking and trying stuff in the house too. Fast forward till I was older, and I didn't really start drinking (and I now only do it socially, maybe a handful of times a year) until I was 18 and could go out. Could argue that did me no harm.

Remember those chocolate cigarettes you got, in the really quite real looking boxes, I used to love those. My Granda brought us them all the time, because he worked for a cash and carry. I've never smoked anything in my life, and I hate people smoking.... so that didn't make me want to smoke.

I learned to shoot guns from a young age, and consequently I don't get in a massive flap at the sight of one and claim everyone is going to die. It certainly didn't turn me into anything, if only gave me respect for them.

Ever since I was little I've used knives, and pretty much always had one.. and I was always trusted with it. We used to go out with hammers, and saws and go build tree houses and stuff, and none of our parents got in a mess about it. I've never been in bother with the police, I'd never think to carry one, etc. So that exposure did nothing bad.

I'm always a little sad when I see a need to protect and shield children from everything (and I hate kids) because it's obvious from the war on fast cars, the knee jerk reactions about firearms, about everything else from this crowd that the kind of thinking that brings that about, is the kind that's not doing any favours to anyone.

[Ruttager]

Just let him try some. When I was little I remember my cousin and I pestering my dad and uncle to give us a taste of the beer they enjoyed so much. After a while their patience ran out and we were allowed a sip each. Needless to say to a 9 year old boy beer tastes like piss. I can still remember how bad it tasted. (love ber now though) I can bet even the most stubborn 9 year old will not continue if he doesn't like the taste. However, if he does like it your prettymuch screwed

[Leccy]

NDA said:

Get over yourself FFS.

Of course I've said no to him, I spend my life saying no to various mad requests from him. I am perfectly entitled to lob a topic up on here for discussion - that's what it's for, perhaps you haven't fully grasped that. I certainly don't need a lecture on parenting from you.

Go and post something useful on Mumsnet or something.

Whatever. It's NOT how you come across in your post. You seem to need others' opinions on what to do. It seems strange that a 9 year old knows about alchol free stuff. Why don't you ask for advice on here about the other things you claim to have said no to.

FFS.

[skodamanpat]

FFS a pint never hurt anyone.

[DPX]

I would let me try it , the taste of some of this 0 deg beer is enough to keep him away from beer for life.

[Frix]

anonymous said:

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Agreed. He stated he had dealt with it and this was a discussion provoking thread. I doubt he meant for self-righteous clowns.

[YorkshirePudding]

I gave some to my daughter, who is 8 this time, when she went through a phase of wanting some "beer".

Nothing worse for a kid to see their parents having a drink then being
told no they can't have any. She now no longer asks for any so for
me it's worked.

[AL...Ease]

Meh, I was allowed the occasional glass of wine or half of lager with my meal when I was 9, it's not like it's going to turn him into an alcoholic.