Do you give your LO soda?

LadyXaverian · May 2012

Milk, water, and very diluted juice. No soda. The DCP texted me the other day to see if she could try chocolate milk at snack time, and that was a "no", too. There's no need, IMO. I don't know at what age I'll let her try soda, but I'm thinking school age. My best friend's 4.5 year old doesn't drink soda, and it's never been a big deal.

ABizzity · May 2012

sofamonkey:
We rarely have soda. The rare times we do, P gets a sip. She reaffirms that she hates it & we move on.

Exactly this. My little man only likes milk and water. Seriously.

saturdaynightdoubletree · May 2012

Nope, neither kid has tasted it even. I almost gave DD flat ginger ale once because she had a really bad stomach bug, but didn't end up doing it. My kids are so gassy anyway, I couldn't imagine!

sleepingbeauty825 · May 2012

We don't keep soda or juice in the house but when we go out to eat I let Simon choose a type of juice. I am pretty sure he has gotten at least a sip of soda somewhere though because when he sees in he says "Soda!" I blame my in-laws for that one.

Also on the very very rare occasion that my H and I go out for coffee together, we allow Simon a chocolate milk. I think Ruby is still too young for that, but maybe around Christmas next year and Starbucks has the PSL we will allow her a flavored milk as well. We'll see.

But to answer your question, no. I don't give my kids soda.

quidditchcapn1120 · May 2012

No, just water and milk here. My grandparents sometimes give him watered down juice when they are with him (maybe once a week) but I don't keep it in the house. I am trying to stop drinking soda myself.

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jandy09 · May 2012

We don't keep it in our house but sometimes we get one from Sonic. Last weekend she wanted a drink, so I gave her one. She did not like it. She also doesn't like juice. Right now she is just a water and BM girl.

Rink08 · May 2012

No. We don't give our 5 year old soda either.

shortstuff15 · May 2012

I have given her Iced tea twice and once when she wasn't eating/drinking anything because of an ear infection (which hadn't been diagnosed yet) I tried giving her flat ginger ale just to get something in her, but she didn't like the ginger ale.

The iced tea I gave her during potty training just so that she would have more output and make it easier to actually get something in the potty. She's got super control and would be holding it in all day, but once we gave her the iced tea the one day she actually hit the potty and then everything was good. The other time was just a treat. We do give juice though, but I don't view that as pop. I check the labels - the juice I buy (and Canada has different regulations on juice then the States) is nowhere near the sugar content that pop has. Having juice has not affected her milk/water intake either. She'll ask for what she wants. Mostly it's water so I have stopped worrying about it.

PinkGirlInCali · May 2012

Not at all! DH and I aren't even soda drinkers ourselves, I can say so far this year I think I had soda once and it was at a party. And out of eating out a dozen times DH might get soda once in that dozen. Just water and juice drinkers over here.

Jinsy80 · May 2012

GhostMonkey:

Jinsy80:
No way! DD1 (who will be 5 in July) has had a sip or two, but thankfully she doesn't like it. DD2 has not tasted it. DH and I drink too much soda as it is, the kids don't need any. It sucks the calcium out of your bones, not good for little ones. They both like Kool-Aid though. :-)

You realize Kool-Aid is just sugar water, right?

Um, yeah...it's Kool-Aid!

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