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to start giving my DC squash even though they're happy with just water?

233 replies

Clemmythyme · 12/02/2017 23:15

I have two DDs aged 4 and 2. Both happily drink water and don't ask for anything different to drink. DD4 has tried squash at GPs and parties and likes it but has never asked for it at home. DD2 hasn't tried it but obviously would probably like it as it's sweeter than water.

I'm thinking of beginning to buy and offer squash because I'm concerned they're not drinking enough. Neither drank anything with breakfast today, they had probably a quarter of a small cup of water with lunch, half a small cup after swimming and hardly anything with dinner. AIBU to think this isn't enough and to introduce squash to try and encourage them to drink more?

OP posts:
Buzzardbird · 13/02/2017 12:22

Great, now all my pets are insisting they only drink squash from now on...even the fish!

nolongersurprised · 13/02/2017 12:23

notbad I think the coroner was wrong. Not
haemolysis - that water you drank immediately changed your entire intravascular volume into water and your cells expanded and expanded until they exploded. Probably your brain actually burst.

NotBadConsidering · 13/02/2017 12:23

Bertrand not that I am experienced with such things (ahem) but I believe there's something called "The Dark Web" where you can buy squash-free water on the black market for probably cheaper than you pay your touts. You'll have to ask a teenager how to access it though. While you're there you can get yourself some nice crystal meth, a Glock handgun and a trafficked slave to help around the house.

GinIsIn · 13/02/2017 12:24

I don't like squash, and hadn't realised water was so lethal and dangerous. From now on I am only drinking gin. Cheers! Gin

DianaMemorialJam · 13/02/2017 12:25

I go through about 5 bottles of robinsons sugar free a week

What's going to happen to me?!

Shock
madein1995 · 13/02/2017 12:26

LOLing at 'water doesn't hydrate'. Of course it does! If it didn't, how come we aren't all dead? Because although I don't drink just water often, there have been times I've had to and I'e not died of dehydration. Utterly ridiculous. And I personally am in the 'water available at all times' camp, especially in young children. If I'm going out - to work, to the shops, to the gym - I take a drink in my bag. Usually 2 big bottles of flavoured water, occasionally 2 bottles of diluted squash. Hardly anyone drinks enough these days and it's a good idea to have a drink to hand. I don't see why some people think it's daft

NotBadConsidering · 13/02/2017 12:27

Probably your brain actually burst.

That would explain my ongoing headaches.

JustDanceAddict · 13/02/2017 12:27

I used to dilute juice but now at teen-age they have juice for breakfast and then water with meals unless we go out or we have people over & then we buy shloer or similar. Neither have fillings.

madein1995 · 13/02/2017 12:28

And if water wasn't hydrating my dog would be dead by now, seeing as that's all she drinks. Funnily enough she's not dead, she's very much alive and chasing squirrels in the garden

derxa · 13/02/2017 12:28

I served beer to my DC. It hasn't done them any harm.

liquidrevolution · 13/02/2017 12:30

DD only drinks water or milk. When she is not drinking squash she will drink milk. I sometimes have to jazz it up by warming it and frothing the top (babychino).

Not giving her squash until she is much older. I would offer a drop of fresh squeezed orange juice in water over squash.

JassyRadlett · 13/02/2017 12:30

I don't like squash, and hadn't realised water was so lethal and dangerous. From now on I am only drinking gin.

Best check with user though that tonic is suitably 'isotonic' (at least comparable to low-sugar squash). As she hasn't shared any info about the 'facts' behind her views we'll need to check in with her on whether each individual drink is ok, or whether it will lead to Exploding Cell Drama.

GinIsIn · 13/02/2017 12:32

Jessy but gin and tonic had the word 'tonic' in it so scientifically speaking that must make it safe, according to user, surely....? Grin

MagicMoments22 · 13/02/2017 12:32

I remember living on just one pint of milk a day at lunchtime (plus food). Just never felt thirsty.

Keep with the water

JassyRadlett · 13/02/2017 12:34

I would have thought so, Fenella, but my thinking has been shown to be unreliable as I previously thought that the gut and kidneys played a role in processing water through the body, but thanks to user I now know they don't. So I think we really must rely on her wisdom. Grin

PyongyangKipperbang · 13/02/2017 12:35

Oh just give them squash if you think it will help.

As a PP said, far easier to clean teeth than treat the effects of severe dehydration, and yes some kids will make themselves ill rather than drink if they dont like it.

I personally dont like water, never have. I dont know why, but I have always had to have something in it. I have raised 2 kids to adult hood and another 4 are well on their way, and none of them have suffered as a result of having squash. And there is far more sugar in a glass of orange juice or milk than there is in a glass of well diluted sugar free squash.

GinIsIn · 13/02/2017 12:36

Jassy I'm due to have a baby pretty much any day so I hope user hurries up and enlightens us, as I will need to move to the gin only diet very soon, and wouldn't want to do it without her sterling scientific advice! Shock

laurzj82 · 13/02/2017 12:37

My DD doesn't drink much. I tried squash Blush she didn't like it thankfully. I freeze fruit juice in lolly moulds now. We struggle to get veg into her so sometimes I nutribullet things like spinach with fruit and she'll happily eat them frozen

BarbaraofSeville · 13/02/2017 12:39

In the 17th Century (or perhaps 1700s - a long time ago anyway) people, including children, used to drink mostly gin and/or beer because the water was so filthy.

Perhaps they had the right idea and they're all laughing at the water drinkers from beyond the grave.

nolongersurprised · 13/02/2017 12:43

jassy don't foget the role of the hypothalamus and pituitary gland for regulating sodium levels and thus influencing hydration.

Shame such a sensitive hormonal system can be overridden by drinking that demon drink water which would explode cells if allowed to linger in other body fluids.

How does it remain separate user?

BarbarianMum · 13/02/2017 12:44

Not engaging in the bunfight but we introduced 2 large glasses of well watered fruit juice a day after ds2 became phenomenally constipated.

squizita · 13/02/2017 12:48

Barbarian YY that's what the hospital recommended for us.

DD has not become a water refuser fucking know it all bullshit mumsnet myth 1 and drinks water the rest of the time. Her urine shows she is hydrated fucking know it all bulls hit mumsnet myth 2 which is utterly rich even for mumsnet keyboard warriors busted too

RJnomore1 · 13/02/2017 12:52

Well personally I've gone for a cab of Coke Zero with lunch to negate the evil effects of the water I've been drinking all morning!

MinkyWinky · 13/02/2017 13:00

Something to think about - most low sugar squashes have artificial sweeteners in them. I've also noticed them in 'normal' squashes. If you do choose to go down the squash route - change the ingredients label to see what's actually in them. Very diluted fruit juice or water with fruit in it would probably be a better option.

MinkyWinky · 13/02/2017 13:05

Check not change...