Should anyone below seven be allowed to take tea?

my mother let us drink iced tea for supper when we were kids, I was about 12 when I started drinking it for breakfast and lunch as well because milk was making me sick. My mother also let us have hot tea if we were sick to our stomachs or if it were cold outside. This, of course, before the days of instant hot chocolate. I guess if I were a parent I might feel a bit differently, but I'm not...

I let my kids drink iced tea that you buy at the store. I love it myself but we really dont drink it that much anyway. If we are out shopping on the weekend sometimes we will grab a bottle of nestea iced tea to drink. Sometimes when we go shopping my daughter will ask me to buy a gallon of iced tea for us to drink at home. She has a cup or less a day usually. I really dont think this will hurt her any. She and I both have trouble with recurrent UTIs. Tea can trigger bladder irritaions so I tend to avoid it most often.

Probably not. I'm no expert, but the caffeine might bad for kids, unless it's herbal. If it's herbal tea you're talking about, then it's fine :)