My Daughter Came Home From a Sleepover With a New Habit. She’s Way Too Young for This.

Care and Feeding Aug 13, 20261:00 PM Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Getty Images Plus. Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding, My husband and I can’t agree on something our 11-year-old daughter “Shelby” wants to be allowed to do. Shelby tried some coffee with sugar and creamer when she was at a friend’s house for a sleepover and really liked it. Now she wants to drink it at home. My husband and I drink it ourselves, but I think she’s too young for it, while my husband thinks it would be fine so long as it’s in small amounts. Who’s right? —Coffee Clash Dear Coffee Clash, I admit, I started drinking coffee when I was 12—not daily or even weekly, just occasionally, with quite a bit of milk—and hav