One of my earliest memories, as a toddler in the 1960s (I'd have been around 3-4 years old as I remember that my sibling was still a baby in a highchair), was sitting at my maternal grandmother's kitchen table drinking sweet milky tea that was perfect. No-one else could make tea for me like my Nanny. Even as my tastes changed over the years and I stopped having milk, whenever I visited she still made it spot on perfectly, exactly how I liked it, every time. Now I only drink tea if I'm in an area with softer water, I hate the scum that appears when you make tea with hard water. So I'm much more of a coffee drinker.

When my own kids were little (1990s), I'd make them weak tea with milk & sugar. When they wanted to try coffee, I'd put a pinch of instant coffee granules in a mug with hot water, sugar and milk. Nowadays my daughter prefers coffee, but still likes the occasional tea. She won't let her (4 & 7) kids try them yet, though. There seems to have been a push against allowing kids to have anything with caffeine in, no matter how weak in the last decade or so. My son isn't a fan of hot drinks at all now. Sometimes he'll have a hot chocolate, but he'd rather have a cold drink instead.