How often do your DC drink fizzy drinks?

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My DC have just discovered fizzy drinks. I'm grateful I've got away with it for so long (10 &12) but now they're asking for them every day. I don't drink them any more and I know I drank far too many before I was pregnant. What's an acceptable amount to buy in so they don't see it as forbidden but don't drink too much? (The eldest really doesn't need empty calories.)
One 500ml at the weekend? Plus if we're eating out (maybe once or twice a month in the summer). Or is that too stingy?

Ha im stingier !.my ten year old gets a lemonade if we eat out maybe once a month if that. I don't buy them for the house unless it's a party!

Although I do cheat and buy soda water and add it to a little fruit juice on occasions.

I’d allow one with a meal out, and at secondary age they can use their pocket money for drinks / sweets if they want. Usually bubble tea. But I give £5 a week, so that limits it.

I don’t have fizzy drinks is in the house as DH and I don’t drink them, so never at home apart from the occasional birthday party with leftovers.

Mine are little 4, 6, 7 and 9 and only have had the odd bit in the last couple of years as eldest was hounding us for them. Occasionally they get a coke in a restaurant and they share. I now buy appletiser, as it’s just carbonated apple juice, to have for special occasions at home.

Making something forbidden doesn’t make them go crazy on it later…. Always better to forbid/restrict fizzy drinks, junk food and sweets, alcohol, teen sex, cigarettes, drugs…..all the people who were allowed those things in moderation had a much more relaxed use of them from an earlier age than the people who’s parents kept tighter boundaries. And as a child with strict parents, I seem to as an adult have a healthier approach to those things than most people who had more relaxed upbringings.

My daughter is 5 and never drinks fizzy. We have a soda stream and we make a lot of carbonated water but she doesn't even like that.

11 and 13 year old, 1 can each on a Friday, Saturday and Sunday. A bit more lenient if on an actual holiday!

My DS is 5.5 and I never buy fizzy drinks for him. His Dad/dad's girlfriend buy all the kids (5, 6 and 8) fizzy, I don't agree with it, but their call.

Mine’s 11 and might have a couple a month. Probably more on holiday.

Until teens, never. As teens, one never wants them. The other occasionally -if eating out - maybe three times a year. At home, we would never buy them.

I don’t like fizzy drinks either, so maybe it’s genetic.

DS 9 never! He has tried lemonade and coke and hated both.

Never

DTs are 11 - one whenever she gets the chance, the other one won't drink anything apart from water

We rarely have fizzy drinks only special occasions. Dc are 17, 14 & 8.

16yo maybe once a week, 14yo never.

DC aged 14, 10, 4 and 10m. Older two have them only when we eat out and never anything caffeinated. The 10yo specifically doesn't need more energy! The 14yo might buy a 7up or fanta zero if she's out with friends but rarely. She often chooses coolers from Costa or still drinks like flavoured water or oasis. We don't buy them to have in the house. The 4yo very very rarely has anything fizzy. 10mo never obviously.

My 11 year old doesn’t really likes them… not because I’m a great parent, that’s just who she is… so my answer is theoretical
i would say weekends and when you eat out / special occasions
then again teen me used to use all my pocket money to drink fizzy drinks at lunchtime … so I wouldn’t have fizzy drink for my DD during the week, but would understand if she used her pocket money for the occasional fizzy drink during the week - not making it forbidden, encouraging her to drink water instead, but if that’s what she wants to do with her money, fine

Ds 7 and 4. 7 yo gets one if we eat out, a coke with a happy meal maybe once a week after swimming and could have 1 a day on holiday.

4 yo same as above but with Fanta and didn't always pick one on holiday. It was AI and the novelty seemed to be using the machine to get your drink rather than actually drinking it 🤷🏼‍♀️

We don't tend to have any in the house as we all drink water, diluting juice and milk at home.

Don't have it in the house except for parties. Might get some with a takeaway and they're allowed it when eating out from maybe 7/8ish. My younger kids haven't tried it and won't for as long as possible

Special occasions but i now have a teen that gets one a day after school

DDs are 8 and 10.

They probably have them twice a month (once for a take away, once for eating a meal out).

We never buy them for the house, and they only drink water, or the occasional milkshake.

On holidays, they can have them every day, although when we were away earlier this month DD2 helped herself to a Pepsi at breakfast and I was

Only allowed them on special occasions or when out of the house eg restaurants

That said I bought Fanta lemon this week, first time since Christmas, as it's baking hot ... my kids are grown up and still it's water or tea here

On my street 4 year olds play out with Dr peppers in their hand 🤦🏼‍♀️

I buy one bottle of lemonade a week for them to share, when it’s gone it’s gone. If we go out to eat I let them have a lemonade. I don’t let them drink cola at all, I’ve got an unhealthy obsession with it and don’t want them having all that caffeine.

We had them on special occasions growing up. I don't drink them as an adult and looking at the rubbish that's in them and becoming a bit more health conscious I'm kind of hoping not to give them to youngest DC at all. Older DC have them occasionally but now seem fairly amenable to swapping for fancy fruit juices.