The Kappuccino Kid!

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Pffft. Give me anything with artificial red food dye when I was a kid and I'd have run through brick walls if only I were big enough.

[NateTheChops]

There is a sign I've seen posted in stores and in novelty shops that says,

"Unaccompanied children will be given free espresso and a kitty".

Now if you had just found a kitten lying around...

[DGoddessChardonnay]

My daughter likes to drink my coffee. However, I don't drink cappacinos and I only allow her a sip or two before I take it back and basically drink it until there's only a 1/2 swallow left & she gets the rest.

She's been "drinking" coffee since she was like 2.

I normally drink Folgers instant coffee and lots of powdered creamer. She's no more hyper than normal.

I've been drinking coffee since I was around 5 and I don't recall being hyped up to the point of climbing the walls. Our coffee pot was on almost 24/7, thanks to Grandma, who loved her coffee and you didn't dare take that away from her (or her snuff for that matter.)

By the time I was in high school, half a pot a day was breakfast. Still is after all these years.

Just give me my coffee and no one gets hurt.

[Pagan]

(or her snuff for that matter.)

Oh my goodness, but that stuff is just nasty! My step-grandmother used to dip snuff. And the empty coffee cans she used to spit it out in....

[Nayeli_Sabia]

Already done. Children under 16 are now no longer allowed coffee, and there's a nice sign now stating this.

I can't believe he gave her the large coffee. The "childrens cappuccino" I made was probably about 99.9% milk!

My brother's been drinking coffee since he was 2. He asked for it, my mom let him hav it thinking he would hate it..... oops. Now he's 19, 6'4", and perfectly healthy. Mostly my mom would allow him to order decaff, but sometimes he was allowed regular. My almost 3 yo drinks coffee. I have an espresso mug she gets her coffee in(at home). If i'm treating her out, it's decaff.


Even still..... there is NO WAY i'm letting her misbehave out in public. I was raised that the parent pays, tips well, and leave(early) if need be. Punishment at home if we need to leave early.

[NateTheChops]

There was an article, though I admit I don't know how BS it was, suggesting that coffee can help prevent Alzheimer's, or rather caffine as a component of coffee.

My little sister took occasional nips of coffee when she was less than 18 months old and as near as I can tell she's never suffered any ill effects. This was back when she had a trach tube in her throat no less.

[BookstoreEscapee]

There's lots of studies showing evidence of various health benefits of coffee. Sometimes I wish I could drink it but I can't stand the stuff.

One night when I was at work in Store1, a guy and his kid, maybe about 12 at the most, came through from the Starbucks, and the kid was drinking a Frappucino. At like 9pm. On a school night. I made a comment about how I would never sleep if I were drinking that at that time of night, and the dad said the kid had ADD and it actually calmed him down. Which I suppose makes sense, since the drugs they give kids for ADD, like Ritalin and Adderall, are stimulants.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

My parents used to give me Actifed whenever I got too rowdy and crazy and out of control.

The package said that it can cause restlessness and irritability. But in my case it put me right to sleep.

[fireheart]

Just skimming through the responses to this post, I wonder if anyone here has heard of (or had) a babycino? I'm aware you're leaving CRML, but maybe ask your manager about making them. It's mostly just frothed-up milk, sometimes served with a treat such as a marshmallow or chocolate. Looks like a cappcuccino, so the kiddies think they're grown up, but no caffeine is actually present. (the US call them steamers apparaently....)

I remember having the babycinos at a small cafe when I was younger. I would've been about the age of the girl in the OP.

[Food Lady]

Pffft. Give me anything with artificial red food dye when I was a kid and I'd have run through brick walls if only I were big enough.

Ha! The picture in my head of little Irv going through the wall is making me .

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Ha! The picture in my head of little Irv going through the wall is making me .

And a whole fucking lot of fun it was getting that allergy diagnosed, boy howdy!

It took about a week when I was 4 or 5 or so. It was before I started school anyway. Get dragged out of bed at the ass crack of dawn and bundled up in my dad's truck or my mom's Mustang, both of which were plagued with frequent stalling problems, and head down to Waukesha to see the allergist.

Once there, I got to spend my days watching trains out the waiting room window and then having holes drilled in my arm by nurses and doctors wielding needles, injecting various substances into Yours Truly so they could note the reaction. That was when I decided needles and I would be interacting as little as possible.

Then drive back home in the late afternoon or evening (about two hours each way) and then off to bed because I had to do it all over again the next day.

About the only good thing that came out of that was there was a treasure chest in the waiting room full of little toys and after every shot I'd be allowed to pick one out. Also my parents might have taken me to the Milwaukee County Zoo when we finished up. I don't really remember.

[TexasT]

One night when I was at work in Store1, a guy and his kid, maybe about 12 at the most, came through from the Starbucks, and the kid was drinking a Frappucino. At like 9pm. On a school night. I made a comment about how I would never sleep if I were drinking that at that time of night, and the dad said the kid had ADD and it actually calmed him down. Which I suppose makes sense, since the drugs they give kids for ADD, like Ritalin and Adderall, are stimulants.

Yes, you're right. I'm a teacher and I have a student that I allow to drink tea during the day because on the days she doesn't get her tea, she's gone. The only thing that keeps her concentrated is a stimulant, which caffeine is. I have other students who I know parents gave caffeine pills to if they couldn't get a prescription for whatever reason. That's the easiest and cheapest test. I know of several doctors who, when parents say that their child is ADD/ADHD will give a child a stimulant and see what it does. If it hypes the kid up, there's something else. If it calms them down, then they find the medicine that works best. That's their diagnosis.

Pffft. Give me anything with artificial red food dye when I was a kid and I'd have run through brick walls if only I were big enough.

You know, there's a theory out there that the hyperness some children experience is actually an allergic reaction.

[LadyAndreca]

Considering the amount of koolaid we drank as kids, I wonder if that's what happened to my siblings and I. (Especially since I can taste most food coloring, and too much green can make me sick.) My parents never bought into the ADHD craze, which I'm glad for. They had their own solution to things: extra chores. Too hyper to go to sleep at bedtime? We got to stay up for another hour--and wash walls. After a few of those, we were very QUIET hyper kids at night.

Turns out years later that I'm a natural night owl. Left to my own devices I'll sleep from about 2 AM to 10 AM. I generally pop awake around 10:30 with no alarm clock no matter when I've gone to bed, and I have trouble falling asleep before midnight.

[Lace Neil Singer]

You know, it's something that does actually depend from child to child. As a child, I could drink E-numberriffic Panda Green Cola and Raspberryade and not get particularly hyper, but my little brother practically went thru the ceiling if given too much sugar or any stimilants, like caffine. We all had to drink caffine free Diet Coke cuz of his hyperactiveness.

And of course, if your kid does go hyper if given caffine... then don't fucking give them cappuccino! Common sense... now a super power. -.-

[smileyeagle1021]

Which I suppose makes sense, since the drugs they give kids for ADD, like Ritalin and Adderall, are stimulants.

which is exactly why I still drink a lot of caffeine... I have no idea whether or not I need the stims, but I got a bit addicted thanks to the brilliance of modern medicine convincing everyone that stims were the best way to control ones mood.