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?

9 for my eldest, she wasn't a fan of flavoured drinks though for a very long time. Water or nothing! Now she's quite a bit older and enjoys the odd fizzy drink but I don't like the children having too many. My youngest was a fair bit younger, about 5/6.

DS age 9 would drink it (pretty much any flavour or variety) all the time if given the option. DS age 6 doesn't like it.

Can’t contribute as my DD is almost 2 so obviously hasn’t had any but wanted to say I call it fizzy juice and knew exactly what you meant :) I’m guessing you are also Scottish!

As pp have said, this is a Scottish term.

Everything is juice except plain water, milk based drinks, coffee, tea and alcohol.

Fizzy juice = pop
Diluting juice = squash
Fresh juice = juice

Op, my 14 year old still doesnt like anything fizzy but Id have been ok with him having it from around age 9 I think.

I'm fae Govan originally, you don't get more Scottish than that, and juice was only used to refer to pure or watered down fruit juice, then there was squash, and fizzy drinks, pop, or ginger. I didn't taste fizzy drinks until I went to parties without my mum, so about age 6.

@sleepyhead

As pp have said, this is a Scottish term.

Everything is juice except plain water, milk based drinks, coffee, tea and alcohol.

Fizzy juice = pop
Diluting juice = squash
Fresh juice = juice

Op, my 14 year old still doesnt like anything fizzy but Id have been ok with him having it from around age 9 I think.

I was wondering when someone was going to throw diluting juice into the mix!

(I'm Scottish but live in England and there has never been such controversy in my office than when I once asked a colleague if they wanted some diluting juice).

May I add a cautionary tale; none of mine liked fizzy drinks. I was quite smug about this until my middle child went to his first house party. Declined all offers of adding something fizzy to his vodka and drank it neat. Cue vomit. Not so smug now.

We buy DD who's 6 a mini can of appletiser in the weekly shop, she's been having that for about a year. She tried sips of ours in restaurants before that but didn't really like the fizz, now she does

@LizzieMacQueen

May I add a cautionary tale; none of mine liked fizzy drinks. I was quite smug about this until my middle child went to his first house party. Declined all offers of adding something fizzy to his vodka and drank it neat. Cue vomit. Not so smug now.

That’s brilliant I have a few years to wean my child onto the fizzy stuff for mixers then (I’m assuming I can’t actually avoid them drinking vodka forever )

Fizzy drinks that aren’t cola about 10/11 maybe once or twice a year Christmas other special occasion. Cola about 14 but only in restaurants /special occasions maybe once every couple of months. I don’t think fizzy drinks are suitable for children. My dc only drink water , milk and tea from around age 14 occasionally hot chocolate in winter.

My eldest tried lemonade at 4 as it was the only soft drink available. We ended up swapping with water. We don't really drink them so the kids aren't interested in them.

They get a glass of dilute juice or squash with their evening meal and possibly in the afternoon too if it's hot and they haven't drunk enough water.

From a young age! But, she was in hospital a lot for blood tests, and her treat was a small glass of irn bru from her dad. Then, because both of my children hate and sort of medicine, they would get a small shot glass of irn bru/Diet Coke after taking it. There was a short phase when my daughter was always trying to steal it from us, but they have both outgrown it now. They get the occasional tin shared between them at 8 and 9, but they rarely ask and it’s more of a treat now. Except on holiday - they always get a fizzy juice with dinner.
Neither have ever liked diluting juice though, no fruit shoots or anything like that. It’s water 99% of the time that they drink/ask for.

About 4 or 5?

Happy for them to have it as a treat for a meal out or something but tbh they prefer water. Husband and I are Pepsi fiends and could probably drink a litre a day, we’re lucky they haven’t taken after us.

Although to be fair I certainly didn’t drink a lot of fizzy drinks as a child.

Birthdays, special outings to restaurants and occasional weekend.

Though dd10 has had one baby tooth filling and was told to cut down... so try to stick to water during the wk.

DS1 is 4, he's tried sparkling water and sparkling water with squash in it and didn't like the bubbles in either. I wouldn't give him other fizzy drinks yet.

I have older primary school kids and they drink water at home. Youngest won’t drink juice as she doesn’t like it, oldest has a fruit juice with breakfast occasionally. I don’t particularly have anything against fizzy drinks - I’m pretty sure they’ve both tasted them at parties etc - but we don’t have it at home and they’ve never asked me for it.

May I add a cautionary tale; none of mine liked fizzy drinks. I was quite smug about this until my middle child went to his first house party. Declined all offers of adding something fizzy to his vodka and drank it neat. Cue vomit. Not so smug now.

Really good point Lizzie, I will make sure I add a shot of vodka to DS8's coke from now on

What is fizzy juice?

Are you for real?

DSs around 6 years old but only once a month or so ( McDonalds or a party) and never coke.
DD age 2 always asking "can i have your drink?" and taking big slurps on the straw. Oops.

Coke, Pepsi, Fanta etc are definitely fizzy juice where I am.

My 6yo shares a can of Pepsi, irn-bru etc with us once in a blue moon.

She's also tried sips of fruity beers and promptly stuck her tongue out and said yuck!

Dd was 2 or 3 for the odd small glass.
She's 18 now and drinks all kinds of stuff, from plain water to coffee, to shots, to juice etc.
Her and her BF bought a fancy teapot last year and love buying new types of tea!
All in moderation.

Also Scottish and its fizzy juice here too - coke, irn bru, lemonade, fanta, etc. Fresh juice is freshly squeezed fruit juice.

Dd (16) still doesn't like fizzy drinks except for fresh orange and lemonade occasionally
Ds (13) likes diet coke mostly and has it at the weekends. He drinks diluting juice (squash) or water at other times

Mine are teens now and I buy multipack (sugar free) cans and I limit it to one a day (as much for my budget as anything!) I’m sure they drink all sorts when I’m not around though. I think I started allowing it when they went to primary, although less frequently.
“Fizzy juice” is definitely the term though in my part of north east Scotland - took me a bit of getting used to when I moved up from England, where “juice” only referred to the pure kind. (And don’t get me started on squash versus diluting juice!)