Son has started asking for coffee with breakfast because we both drink it. Right now he gets a few sips in a lot of milk. He wants 'a real one'. At what age did you allow it, if at all? Milk tea seems to be fine in every relative's house, so I don't know why coffee feels different to me.
Ours gets half a cup of milky tea with us on Sundays. Weekdays no. She mostly wants it because it's the grown-up thing, not for the taste.
Same reason here I think. The grown-up part is the whole point for him.
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Is your concern the caffeine or the sugar? We let our son have a small cup of filter coffee on weekends, mostly milk, but he puts two spoons of sugar in it, and that bothered me more than the coffee. What does yours take?
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Sugar, yes. He'd take three spoons if nobody was watching. Maybe that's the actual rule to set.
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I grew up in my ammamma's house drinking a small steel tumbler of coffee from about 8. It was nearly all milk with one spoon of sugar, and it was always the same tumbler, which somehow made it a ritual rather than a free-for-all. A small fixed cup might do the same for him.
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