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Old 09-11-2010, 12:13
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http://tvnz.co.nz/entertainment-news...-seven-3882601

I know some people might argue this gave her a more adult attitude towards drinking and stopped her becoming a binge-drinking yob... but surely seven is far too young?! It must be terribly bad for a seven-year-old's growing developing liver and digestive system, surely?
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Old 09-11-2010, 12:47
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http://tvnz.co.nz/entertainment-news...-seven-3882601

I know some people might argue this gave her a more adult attitude towards drinking and stopped her becoming a binge-drinking yob... but surely seven is far too young?! It must be terribly bad for a seven-year-old's growing developing liver and digestive system, surely?
I can remember having tiny bits of wine mixed with water during meals sometimes when I was about that age.
I don't really draw any conclusions from this - I think my parents thought it WOULD stop me being a bnge drinking yob, and I think the french do it regularly.
All I really think happened is that I discovered was that cheap table wine mixed with water, doesn't really taste all that great.

I don't think it was hamful to me though, I don't think we're talking about large enough quantities.
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Old 09-11-2010, 13:03
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My parents used to let me have wine with my meals when I was about five on special occassions or when they had dinner parties - I'm not talking about a full glass, literally just a couple of centimetres in a wine glass. I definitely grew up with a view point of it being something that everyone had when they wanted it and that it restricted to something I could only have at aged 18. I skipped out on the whole secret drinking in the park with your friends / sneaking it from the liquor cabinet as it wasn't seen as forbidden fruit. I would definitely do the same with my kids
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Old 09-11-2010, 13:30
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My parents used to let me have wine with my meals when I was about five on special occassions or when they had dinner parties - I'm not talking about a full glass, literally just a couple of centimetres in a wine glass. I definitely grew up with a view point of it being something that everyone had when they wanted it and that it restricted to something I could only have at aged 18. I skipped out on the whole secret drinking in the park with your friends / sneaking it from the liquor cabinet as it wasn't seen as forbidden fruit. I would definitely do the same with my kids
Exactly the same with me too.

I can remember it started when I was was around 10 for special occasions (actually, thinking about it it could have been before that), being given a couple centimetres of something light, such as Lambrusco in a glass and topped up with lemonade.

I never did the sneaking down the park with a bottle of white lightening. Never felt the need to try and get in to bars and clubs under age to have a drink.

Now I have grown up I tend to only have a couple glasses of something for special occasions. I definitely think it made me grow up with a healthy attitude towards alcohol and it is something I would do with my children once when and if I have them.
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Old 09-11-2010, 13:36
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What exactly has this news got to do with this forum? It belongs in the General Discussion sub-forum.
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Old 09-11-2010, 14:31
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I've always been allowed a drop of wine with my dinner on a sunday, started much younger than 7!
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Old 09-11-2010, 14:50
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What exactly has this news got to do with this forum? It belongs in the General Discussion sub-forum.
Wine = drink, so thought food and drink forum would be best?
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Old 09-11-2010, 15:58
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When me and my sister were kids we used to get white wine and lemonade on special occasions. Mostly just Christmas and when my nan came to visit. .
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Old 09-11-2010, 16:00
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Want to know the legal age that you can drink alcohol at home under adult supervision in the UK ?

Five.

So... where's the problem ?
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Old 09-11-2010, 16:11
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Exactly the same with me too.

I can remember it started when I was was around 10 for special occasions (actually, thinking about it it could have been before that), being given a couple centimetres of something light, such as Lambrusco in a glass and topped up with lemonade.

I never did the sneaking down the park with a bottle of white lightening. Never felt the need to try and get in to bars and clubs under age to have a drink.

Now I have grown up I tend to only have a couple glasses of something for special occasions. I definitely think it made me grow up with a healthy attitude towards alcohol and it is something I would do with my children once when and if I have them.
Ditto. I have lovely memories of spending a summer afternoon in the garden sharing a cheap bottle of wine with my mum whilst my dad watched the football aged 15 or so - and started having the odd glass/bottle of beer from being about 8-10 at Christmas.

TBH - perhaps because of their attitude surrounding alcohol - I've never really been that interested in drinking, certainley didn't want to sit in some cold park swigging from a bottle of gnats pee lambrini/cider etc when I could have a drink in the comfort of my own home Barely drink now.
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Old 09-11-2010, 17:06
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Only at Christmas would I allow my Daughter to have a small glass of wine with her meal. She's 13 now but has done this since she was about 8.
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Old 09-11-2010, 17:10
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I don't think she meant drinking as in drinking heavily on a regular basis, I think she meant just having a small glass with her dinner, which is absolutely fine.

It's better that parents allow their children to drink at dinner (something appropriate, obviously) than banning alcohol and wondering why the heck they binge on vodka at 14, in my opinion.

It's no big deal as far as I'm concerned. We've always had alcohol in our house, but my parents don't drink during the week. I've never felt the need to drink excessively because of it. In fact, I very rarely drink, and when I do I only have about 2 glasses.

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Old 09-11-2010, 17:12
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Both my children were allowed a glass of wine and water with their Sunday lunch from the time they were about seven.

My daughter doesn't like wine much at all now!
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Old 09-11-2010, 17:13
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I was about 5 and would get a small liquer/shot glass with wine - my parents are German and thought this was perfectly fine.
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Old 09-11-2010, 17:22
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http://tvnz.co.nz/entertainment-news...-seven-3882601

I know some people might argue this gave her a more adult attitude towards drinking and stopped her becoming a binge-drinking yob... but surely seven is far too young?! It must be terribly bad for a seven-year-old's growing developing liver and digestive system, surely?
Respectfully, you make her sound like she started drinking at 7, never stopped, and was a right lush by the time she was 10. Alll she's actually said is that her parents allowed her to have wine at meals from the age of 7, a perfectly common occurrence, and a far more sensible approach to alcohol imo.

Why sensationalise it unnecessarily?
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Old 09-11-2010, 17:28
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I was allowed small amounts of alcohol from a very young age. My parents are very moderate drinkers and so am I.
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Old 09-11-2010, 23:16
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I have been giving my sons wine with sunday dinner since about the age of 7.

1 part wine to about 10 parts lemonade.

My 13 year old dosent like it at all
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Old 09-11-2010, 23:21
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I was always allowed a little drop of wine (out of mums sherry glass) when I was little with a special meal - didnt turn me into a crazy drunk yob, I think it almost normalised it and made it civilised, I didnt see the appeal of manky cider out of a plastic bottle with 10 of your friends backwash in it.... (not to say that I didnt do that once of twice) and now? at the age of 28 I probably drink once or twice a month.
And this is the same with all my family and we are on the whole moderate drinkers.
As someone else said, supervised drinking in private is legal from 5... nuff said.
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Old 09-11-2010, 23:35
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Respectfully, you make her sound like she started drinking at 7, never stopped, and was a right lush by the time she was 10. Alll she's actually said is that her parents allowed her to have wine at meals from the age of 7, a perfectly common occurrence, and a far more sensible approach to alcohol imo.

Why sensationalise it unnecessarily?
She says it was mixed with water too.

I was given sips of wine and beer as a child. They tasted vile and I never wanted to drink them again. I don't drink wine or beer even now.

Unfortunately, they never thought to take the same approach with cider or rum, and I enjoy those a lot.
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Old 09-11-2010, 23:40
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When we visited my aunt in France we always had diluted wine with lunch. She had the opinion that we should learn which flavours work together, I think it's a normal attitude there.
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Old 09-11-2010, 23:47
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I was allowed small quantities of alcohol either watered down or mixed with a lot of lemonade with lunch on Sunday or on special occasions/at Christmas from around the age of 6. Whilst I did grow a little more curious about alcohol as I grew older, trying it was never forbidden and I've never been a heavy drinker. I was 20 before I'd even been drunk for the first time.
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Old 10-11-2010, 01:14
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I'm sure it was a glass. Boo hoo.
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Old 10-11-2010, 01:22
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Born in France and apparently her mother is half French. She has a French grandmother. Makes sense. It's quite common in France that kids are given watered down wine. Quite common here too at times.
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Old 10-11-2010, 01:33
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Someone ring the Gestapo to sort this issue out. How dare she drink alcohol.
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Old 10-11-2010, 03:23
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I used to have a glass of cider with the Sunday lunch from about age seven. Didn't seem to do me any harm. I don't drink alcohol at all now.
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