When did you let your DC have fizzy juice?

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I'm just wondering when roughly people let their kids have fizzy juice. I don't mean every day but when it's their birthday/friends are over etc?

What’s fizzy juice? I can only think of Appletiser? My 7 yo hates fizzy stuff. The 4 year old likes fizzy water, but hasn’t had a sweet fizzy drink. I would probably let the 7 yo have lemonade at a meal out, but she doesn’t like it so no point. The 4 year old is too young. 7 is probably a reasonable age? I’d steer clear of anything caffeinated though as they have enough energy without that!

What is fizzy juice?

DC is 4.5 and had his first lemonade about a month ago (making our own lockdown special occasion!).

Other than that it's squash on special occasions and water the rest of the time.

I think if he went to a party and fizzy stuff was there I'd let him have it now where as previously I would swap it for water.

At birthday parties at around 6 years old. Didn't like until they reached 11 and even now a few years later still prefers water.

Not sure what you mean. They didn’t like fizzy stuff generally. My oldest started to enjoy coke aged around 9. He has it maybe once every few weeks, as a treat, an alternative to sweets or chocolate or ice cream. My younger two don’t like it (age 7 and 4).

What’s fizzy juice? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a fizzy juice in my life, only still juice.

Fizzy drinks. Like coke, fanta, etc.

I have always found this a bit of an odd thing to restrict TBH - why is a drink automatically worse just because it has a bit of carbonation in it? It's no worse than juice etc. So I'd let them have it at the same age I'd let them have undiluted juice which would probably be about 2-3 on a very rare occasion and about 4-5 then OK at parties etc. But a lot of kids don't like the bubbles when they are very little.

Depends what you mean by fizzy juice?!

Dd probably had a taste of lemonade or coke at 4ish (literally a mouthful)

She's 10 now and its something she chooses not to drink. She hates the bubbles on her tongue.

Juice is a fairly universal euphemism for "drink that isn't water or milk" for young kids, isn't it?? Why is this a confusing term?

I’ve been happy for him to try on occasion since maybe 5. At parties etc. Same with squash / diluting juice. Except they won’t even try it. I think he’s had a sip that it. I’m counting my blessings for now and hoping it won’t change massively. I don’t want to be strict about it (was when toddler preschooler) and am okay for them trying it as an “occasional” items. They won’t. At all. Or milk or hot chocolate or sparkling water. Except water. That’s all he’ll drink at 7 even. I was really annoyed at a school disco he was beatroot when I arrived half way though to help. They had ONLY juice cartons. I said he can have but he don’t drink can I have some two water Sorry rant. Basically keep away when younger so now taste for it then explain its an occasional item as get older for parties etc.

My 10 year old has it probably once a year (assuming you mean coke, lemonade etc).

DS2 is 20 and still won't drink anything fizzy!

Do you mean pop? My dc are 4 and 6 and they're still not really allowed a full glass of pop, they were allowed a mouthful to try whenever it was they asked, maybe 3? My eldest hated it my youngest liked it.

Dc1 around 9
Dc2 prob around 5

I call it fizzy juice too OP. Just means coke, lemonade etc.

I think I wasnt allowed it until I was into double digit ages but even then not often

And I don't really drink it now to this day!

I can't remember a time when DS didn't drink pop, it was never restricted. He didn't have it in his bottle or anything, but I have never restricted any food or drink (or reading material even). My mum restricted loads and I ended up with an eating disorder so I wanted DS to not have my hang ups.

13 year old with weak enamel on teeth, birthdays of any of family, Xmas, meal out. Other times milk, water, sugar free juice, fresh juice and sparkling lemon and lime water one bottle a week.

All doesn't the school have any taps??

Juice is a fairly universal euphemism for "drink that isn't water or milk" for young kids, isn't it?
No. Juice is the juice of a fruit or veg - orange, apple, carrot, tomato, etc. A carbonated soft drink is a soft drink or pop. I’ve never heard it called fizzy juice!

why is a drink automatically worse just because it has a bit of carbonation in it?
Carbonation makes it acidic and it erodes the tooth enamel, which is thinner in children. I rarely have soft drinks myself, maybe a small one every couple of months. So I definitely don’t offer them to DC.

Juice is a fairly universal euphemism for "drink that isn't water or milk" for young kids, isn't it?? Why is this a confusing term?

No. It is a word that means ‘liquid from a fruit or vegetable’. I’ve never heard it used as a catch all.

I’ve only seen ‘fizzy juice’ on Mumsnet, I assume it’s regional? But yes, for many it’s confusing.

Ha! As an English person living in Scotland I can explain....fizzy juice is the term used here fir any kind of fizzy drink , some people in England would call it pop. Up here juice means pretty much any kind of sweet drink like squash etc....it doesnt mean purely fresh fruit juice.

Oldest was about 5. I was really strict about it until we went to Disneyland Paris where she practically survived on Fanta. She's 8 now and she gets the odd can of juice now and again or a cola when we go to McDonald's. My youngest had her first taste (when I wasnt looking) about 2 and now she steals my drinks at every opportunity. I don't really think the odd drink of fizzy juice is that big a deal although I do restrict it and wouldn't let my children have it everyday but this is because I drink nothing other than cans of pepsi/cola every day and it's a habit I don't want them to pick up. I remember even as a child I hated if I went to a friend's house and had to drink diluting juice.

Fizzy juice is a pretty standard term where I am. Pop sounds strange to me but I’d still know what they meant.

I do think keeping them away when very young does help. My nephew was allowed sips of his mums cans of cola form when he could sip a straw basically. She said he was having a tiny amount but he looked like having good sip and several per can. He’s 13 now and had a real fizzy drink addiction (3 cans a day Is an addiction I’d say). It’s sad.

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Juice is a fairly universal euphemism for "drink that isn't water or milk" for young kids, isn't it?? Why is this a confusing term?

Not in my experience, juice is the liquid of fruit like apples or oranges.

I've not heard of fizzy juice either, if you mean carbonated drinks I don't think children should be drinking them at all, teenagers maybe.