Now he drinks water!

[JellyStarz]

You know how it goes, you wean your child and they don't drink water. In your concern they are not hydrated you give them squash and that's what they drink as they grow up. Now my son at the age of 22, in the last 6 months has switched completely to drinking water instead of squash. No other major changes in diet and lifestyle. Typical!

I don't really understand your issue

Well he’s got there in the end. Which is a good thing.

22 months or 22 years?

I had 2 who would only drink squash or juice. One stopped drinking it and swapped to plain water literally overnight the day they got braces on their teeth, aged about 14. The other stopped, again overnight, having been told by the dentist water was better for teeth. He was about early 20s, same as your son. Neither have ever gone back, not once!

No issue! Just musing how we battle and feel guilty as parents, just for them to go and do it later anyway! Better rate than never

Actually I think you hit the nail kn the head, he had a tooth removed and I think that triggered it. We've always has No Added Sugar/Sugar Free squashes anyway, though I know they are not great still, and he still eats junk and drinks Coke/Monster but we will take the small wins.

My son's transition to just drinking plain water took longer than yours!

He always drank diluting squash. Then when he took up running in his mid 20s he started drinking plain water before, during and after his runs but still drank diluting squash at other times.

It took him.until his early 30s to ditch the squash altogether and has been drinking his water plain for a few years now. And what's more drinks a lot of it!

I grew up on weak squash, and aged 41, that's pretty much all I drink! The occasional fruit juice, a coffee or two a day, and that's it.

I'll only really drink straight water when I'm abroad somewhere hot and I'm trying to maintain my hydration, which I do struggle with in hot places.

Your child eats and drinks whatever they're given. They literally don't know anything else exists. I brought mine up on water. They didn't know you could drink anything else (aside from milk of course) until they were at least 2.

I’m in my late thirties and never drink plain water.

My eldest was very fussy when she was about 3. Now in her mid 20s she would eat a whole bag of lettuce and cherry tomatoes as a snack😂

Did you and your child live alone on a small island?