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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 8 year old niece has gone to birthday parties AT a kiddie hair salon and come home with temporary hair color spray, etc. I think this happens at girl birthday parties nowadays although as the mom to boys only it does sound nuts to me :-).

The mocktail part has been interesting for me to read the responses. Posters seem to parse this at different points. Some like OP don’t like it at all. Others think it is okay so long as it is in solo cups instead of margarita glasses. Another thinks coconut flavor (pina colada) is okay but not lime (margarita). I think a lot of this is distinction without a difference. I’m not sure how I’d feel in OP’s shoes but I suspect so long as there was no alcohol in anything then I wouldn’t see it as different than drinking a shirley temple, which my kids love to do when we go out to nicer restaurants. [/quote]

I posted about the pina coladas vs margaritas vs martini glasses.

To me, pina coladas means coconut and pineapple juice, where margaritas mean tequila with lime juice.  Pina colada make me think of the beach flavor, while margaritas make me think of alcohol first, lime second.

As far as the glasses and presentation, some glasses (like martini glasses) are strictly for adult alcoholic beverges, while something like a hurricane glass might be used to serve a milkshake. Restaurants almost always serve virgin drinks in a standard tumbler or hurricane.

I think at least for me those are subtle things that really change the message from innocent fun to, well, Regina's mom.[/quote]

As I said, distinction without a difference to me, because I view a pina colada as coconut plus rum in the same way as a margarita is lime plus tequila (I realize both drinks have more ingredients). So I’m no more or less bothered by one versus the other (and to be clear, I’m not bothered by either in a non-alcoholic version for kids, even younger than 13 yrs - call them frozen limeades, coconut slushies, whatever!). I just think it is silly to say a virgin daquiri or pina colada is okay but a virgin margarita is not. Ditto for a drink served in one shape of a glass versus another. Obviously you and other posters feel differently, but there are just as many responders saying none of this is a big deal. So that’s the part I find most interesting - the range of responses, opinions, distinctions that parents are making here. [/quote]

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