When I was about three or four, I’d visit my great gran and she would make me a cup of very weak tea in a sippy cup – we would slurp our tea together and, in what must’ve looked extremely odd to anyone watching, loudly exhale in great enjoyment after each sip.

And it turns out I wasn’t the only kid having the occasional cuppa.

In a post shared to Reddit recently, one parent revealed both of their children, aged seven and 10, have a cup of milky tea every morning – and have done for three years or so.

“It got me thinking: what age did you/your kids start drinking tea?” asked the Redditor, who noted they were four or five when they had their first cup of tea. “Is it something unusual for kids this age to have?”

“When I was young the concept of kids being too young for tea or coffee was not really a thing,” added someone else in the comments section, noting this was back in the 1970s so “things have changed a bit”.

“At a guess I would say I probably drank tea from 5 or so in age, though that’s about as far back as I can remember and it’s possible it was a thing much earlier.”

Another chimed in: “I was drinking tea at like 5 and coffee at 12.”

Should kids be drinking tea and coffee?

In short: no.

Dr Deborah Lee of Dr Fox Online Pharmacy told........

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