Kids and tea

My 1.5 year old son loves drinking uncooked puerh. When he sees a cup in my hands he right away climes on my lap. The question is maybe it's too early to drink tea at his age? Any ideas?

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Yuriy Pragin
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A Russian boy too young to drink tea? Bah! Has capitalist decadence taken its toll already?

Now that that's settled: when does he get vodka?

Apologies if I have incorrectly guessed your nationality. If you're actually from Utah then yes he's too young to drink tea.

And note that I'm a proud descendent of Zeusel Chepelevsky, who no doubt proudly drank samovar-brewed tea from a glass cup with a chunk of rock sugar held between his teeth.

Yuriy Prag> My 1.5 year old son loves drinking uncooked puerh. When he sees a cup

Nosdrovya,

Rick.

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Rick Chappell

While intrepidly exploring rec.food.drink.tea, Yuriy Pragin rolled initiative and posted the following:

I'm in the same pot, myself - 1.5 year old son, loves drinking my tea.

Personally, I figure anything that's good for me is good for him. But I steer him away from my afternoon or early evening cup. Caffeine tends to mess up naptime and bed time.

Also, I don't add any sugar to anything I serve him.

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Derek

My son is now 17 month old and I let him have tastes of my green teas, mostly because they are cooler tempwise. Sometimes he can't get enough and sometimes he has a couple of sips and doesn't want any more. He also enjoys drinking barley tea, so most often I'll give him a cup of that if I'm having some tea. Doesn't seem like the tea should be a problem as long as they aren't getting too much caffeine.

Blues

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Blues Lyne

Hi Yuriy,

I was told the "cafeine" makes kids particularly nervous because they deshydrate more than adults. Your son needs drinking plenty of water every day. But as an occasional treat, once a week or on occasions, tea is probably better for him than over-sweet cafeinated sodas. I'd have him drink a glass of water a short while after the cup of "light" tea. There are non-cafeinated decoctions with tea-like tastes. In Japan, they sell "mugi cha" and "soba cha" (barley and buckwheat decoction) in the toddler food corner.

Kuri

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cc

Cambric Tea NOUN: A drink for children, made of hot water, milk, sugar, and usually a small amount of tea.

In other words, a weak tea, with probably equal parts tea and milk. You can omit the sugar if he prefers it without as it is. I gave my sons Cambric Tea while they were growing up, and eventually (when they were 12 years old or so) decreased the amount of milk until they were drinking it the way I prepare it for myself. As young adults (ages 21 and 17), they've not suffered any ill effects. They will usually order iced tea as opposed to a soft drink when eating out, and neither like the taste of coffee...they prefer a well-made hot cuppa.

Tee

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Tee King

I wouldn't worry about the tea. It is the pop, candy, junk food. I grew up in the south and I can remember my first glass of ice tea before I could walk. If you could hold it in your hands without spilling it was on your high chair.

Jim

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Space Cowboy

Consider the relative difference in body mass: the caffeine content of a single cup is almost insignificant to an adult, but it may be a big dose for a child. I think children are also supposed to metabolize caffeine more slowly, so the overall dosage builds up more easily.

I understand most of the caffeine goes into the first infusion, however, so if you are worried, keep that to yourself and give him some from second or third infusions.

But I don't really know. If you have already given him tea with no ill effects, then it's probably OK to do so.

Jarmo Louet

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Jarmo Louet

I remember my mom giving us that and that's exactly what she called it- canmbric tea. It has almost NO tea in it- just enough to color and make the kid feel like they are part of the tea party. It's sweet. Much better than them drinking Mountain Dew or getting hold of Coke or Jolt cola. lw

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lw

Hey, Yuri

Only one thing to worry about letting him drink Puerh is that it digests the food in the stomach fast. This leads to overeating or not enough weight gain. If you drink Puerh throughout the day you might notice you got the munchies more this is because that breakfast you ate digested faster then normal. If you drink Puerh within about 30 min of a meal it helps digest the food faster not allowing the fats to store. This is good if you want to lose a little weight but maybe not if you are a 1.5 year old. I have a 3 year old and a 2 year old the 3 year old in the past had a mediocre appetite Puerh fixed this problem (puerh is a common tea for appetite problems in TCM) .

Both of my Girls wanted tea real bad but the more I told them no the more they wanted it, one day we gave in and let them drink it, it only took about 5 tries (over a few days) of tea for them to lose the curiosity. One other thing mentioned is caffeine, did you now that according to the one of the biggest and best Chinese Tea Dictionaries the Wild Tee Uncooked Puerh was the highest in caffeine and non wild tree uncooked Puerh was second.

As for the caffeine thing I am not going to open up a can of worms about that but when I get more time I will list the caffeine contest of common Chinese teas.

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Michael Ryan

That would be great!

--Tom

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Tom

From an article I read on tea:

"Don't give much tea to kids. Tea "chelates" iron, removing it from the body. That may help combat chronic disease but can cause anemia in young people."

Randy

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RJP

And I'm sure you can find another article that says just the opposite, that someone can also post without attribution.

IMO, most things are not harmful, even to children, when done in moderation. The obvious exceptions are smoking and drugs.

-- Larry Weil Lake Wobegone, NH

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Larry Weil

The only reason I posted it without attribution is that I have referred to this article several times before on this newsgroup, the most recent just 10 days ago. Here it is:

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Now it's your turn to find an article that says just the opposite.

Randy

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RJP

Actually, I doubt you would find an article saying the opposite. Tannins do remove tea from the body.

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Diane L. Schirf

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ooh ooh- try that one again. A definite case of tanglefinger.. lw

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lw

I asked a pediatrician about caffeine and kids once, and he said he didn't see many problems associated with caffeine in his patients, aside from a preponderance of obesity, and later diabetes, in soda-drinking kids. (Un- or lightly sweetened tea seems like it'd be a better choice than soda or juice in that regard.)

N.

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Natarajan Krishnaswami

I would recommend you ask the pediatrician - my daughter (19 mos) has been drinking tea with me for maybe 4 months; our Dr. told us the same thing about the iron, so she only gets a little bit every couple of days.

I would also ask your Dr about the caffeine - when my brother was a child, my parents were told to give him caffeine because he was considered "hyperactive." I guess you never really know about these things until you ask....

-K

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chrysis

One of the treatments (maybe the most common?) for ADD is an amphetamine, I think. Nicotine is a stimulant too, but has a `settling' effect.

Moral of the story: there's definitely a maximum dose for beneficial effects. I hope your parents were told how much was too much. :)

Cheers,

- Joel

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Joel Reicher

Perhaps... but some results suggest that iron-deficiency anemia still correlates more strongly with iron-deficient diets than tea consumption:

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"The results demonstrate that both black and green teas and a green tea polyphenol extract do not represent a risk to animals consuming the beverages as their sole fluid intake with respect to iron availability, although the interactions with manganese deserve further study."

N.

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Natarajan Krishnaswami

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