to think that giving an under 3 anything other than milk or water to drink is terrible parenting?

[Dukketeater]

I even saw an 18 month old drinking coke from a can...

DS would have happily become dehydrated before drinking milk or water - wouldn't touch milk at all from 18 months and never drank water no matter how much i tried.

He is 4 now and still won't drink milk, we are slowly having progress with him drinking water but he still has diluted juice as his main drink.

DS1 (3) goes through phases (currently on a milk phase, was previously on a water phase), but we could only persuade him to drink from a cup rather than me at first with juice. He's fine, his teeth are fine, and he would rather die than drink fizzy (he took a swig of my sprite once and acted as though he'd been fatally poisoned!)

DS2 (6 months) is game to try everything in a way that DS1 never was. So yes, he's grabbed my glass and had the tiniest taste of everything from coke to lime and soda to water, milk, juice (although I've drawn the line before wine or beer).

It seems to me that different flavours are what we want, no matter whether liquid or food, and as my nan said, a little of everything does you good.

. Seriously. Did your parents not teach you how to share or were they too busy giving you 6oz of Cola? .

Yanbu, there is absolutely no reason for children or adults to drink sweet drinks like juice apart from pleasure, so fine if it's an occasional treat but it's certainly not healthy. That said, soya milk and almond milk have less sugar than cows milk and still taste sweet. Water is best for thirst and milk is good for nutrition, for protein and fat.

Gawd I'm trying to track down infant fennel tea in the hope that it will sooth 4m old DDs tummy.

Should I be worried about a knock on the door from ss?

Nah I'm not biting.

Dd only has water - hv scared me and said my dd's teeth could go black. She had seen it happen apparantly. I know it is unlikely and i really couldn't give a shit if other kids have juice. I fed my dd jars , formula and she has choc at times (shock horror!) so her having water is my salvation! Its the one area I can feel , yeh I am doin something 'right' hahah

I am a terrible parent.

MadamCasterfoire consider it done. On the phone to them as I type. .

Am also intrigued what magically happens on the child's 3'rd birthday.

Epic autocorrect fail on your name Madame. Apols .

She still has her milk obviously! (I had no choice but to ff by the way) and she only has choc buttons once in a blue moon

When my dn was about five, my sister and me took her to an outside bar in the sun, I had a bacardi and coke and she had a coke. She kept tasting it and moaning it tasted funny and we just told her to stop making such a fuss.
Until I tasted mine.
Oops

YABU. My DC's were weaned on the finest champagne and cognac. They learned to pass the port before they could spell their own name.
Now feck off keep your knickers on and relax, it's the weekend!!

I still have warm ribena sometimes :) We used to have that with disprin in for a cold. It was the 1970s though when judgypants were polyester and couldn't be hoicked as high as now.

odaat my DCs have drank diluted juice repeatedly. Teeth aren't black yet. Last dentist visit told their teeth were perfect.

Haunted .

when you have had your 3 year old screaming with constipation because she doesnt drink enough of anything , that can of coke looks pretty much like salvation! (not that she had coke but if it would have worked I would have given her it)

YABU

YABU. It's real-life parenting.

Just remembering giving 18 month old a coke once waiting for a plane in Thailand... All rules get broken.

I feel the need to go and wake my imaginary toddler and give her wine!

My toddler used to drink weak tea.
He is 42 now. What symptoms should I be worrying about?
He doesn't like tea now.

I cared a lot about this sort of thing with DD1. With DD2, not so much.
Not a big deal every now and then, as long as they aren't swilling down sugary drinks all day every day. A little bit of what you fancy, and all that.
I care more that they brush their teeth twice a day and see the dentist twice a year.

Gave my two diluted juice from a few months old - was all they would drink from their tomee tippee cups, also gave them flat coke when they had vomiting/diarrhoea bugs