To ask at what age you let your DC regularly drink soft drinks?

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i.e. not just water or milk (hot choc). How old were they when you let them drink soft drinks on non-special occasions?

Water or milk in my house. Both of which ds 7 will drink loads of. If we are out for a meal, cinema or on holiday he can have a coke or lemonade. But sometimes when we are out for a meal he will ask for water or a fruit juice.

He has flavoured water in his packed lunch box and gets milk from the school at breaktime

I never buy the full sugar ones.

nobody answering my wine question then 😭😭

Only on mumsnet . I must be a monster of a mother dd has juice everyday. As a treat of course!!

Dd1 is 9, she drinks milk, water and occasionally has a cup of tea.

Dd2 (nearly 8), drinks water, milk and juice. Neither have fizzy drinks.

However, mummy loves wine

If we are having guests over for drinks supper etc then yes. Every day no.

Oh and they're teens

@Springwalk I gave up a coke addiction last year.
I didn't drink water, hot drinks squash nothing. Coke was the only fluid I was drinking and I had a 2 litre bottle that would last me from the moment I woke up until I went to bed. 7 years I lived like that 🙈

The withdrawals I had was horrific. Flu like symptoms for 2 weeks.

I still can't drink water, so I force myself to drink weak squash. And I like tea now, can't touch coke now though the smell is too sweet 🤮 awful stuff.

nobody answering my wine question then 😭😭

Missed it. I don’t drink alcohol. I haven’t for about five years.

And how many of you open the wine everynight whilst making the kids drink only water 🙄

I drink a bottle over two weeks, DH maybe one over a week. DC know it's an adult drink and we always have a glass of water alongside the wine, never just a glass of wine, so the DC don't feel hard done by.

My oldest is 4 so they never have fizzy pop, they have dilute / squash and very occasionally I let them have pure orange juice. Feel very fortunate that they adore milk! We sometimes get flavoured straws that they stick in the milk.

Mine are adults and neither has had any dental work ever.

I've never been one to ban anything, very much 'in moderation' as I think you have to bring them up to make their own choices, sensibly.

So yes, there was diluted squash etc. Both of mine drank tons of fresh orange juice, always through a straw. Coke if out for a meal or parties.

DS drinks only water and tea, Dd diluted juice and herbal tea, would grab a Pepsi Max if I buy any on offer. Both moderate drinkers, DS even at university still doesn't drink a lot.

Having said that I am terrible and drink quite a lot of zero sugar fizzy drinks for the caffeine as I'm paranoid with hot drinks around the kids so yes / coffee is rare.
Kids don't have my fizzy drinks though and they don't really seem interested in it.
(I must be doing something right! 😁 lol)

Very rarely drink alcohol - again as I have young kids and paranoid about it.

That should say Tea / coffee

Oh and Dd has one coffee each morning. I had one coffee the strength of her coffee I'd get to sleep in 2027😁

I have to admit mumsnet and the real world seem like two different places sometimes!
I tried to avoid fizzy until school age, but like most kids I know mine drink a mix of squash, the odd sugar free fizzy drink, fruit juice, and ds1 likes coffee (they’re 16 and 12 now). I only know one or two mums who do the only milk / water thing, and even then it’s only really with under 5’s.

*if I had...

Hahahah this place.

You know they’re on sugar central when they’re walking to secondary school don’t you and from then it’s only a blink til WKD cheap cider and a kebab at 3am

Mine are teens and along allowed on a sat night or if we eat out cinema etc.

Not every day.

At home they have water, squash, juice, milk or tea. Sometimes flavoured water.

Out for lunch/dinner or on holiday they can have a diet coke/lemonade.

They're 9&11

My ds's are 2 and 6. They both drink squash, water and milk. They both aren't big drinkers and drinking squash helps with their fluid intake. I don't like water and drink squash too. It's all sugar free. Ds1 occasionally has a Diet Coke and ds2 loves a sip of Fanta.
Ds1 has allergies and wouldn't drink or eat at all. I'm just glad they are drinking

Eldest is 14 and no, he is not allowed, thankfully he is in to tem because he was taught how bad they are, and we don't drink them either...

I don't think this thread is fiction. My DC (8 and under) only have water or milk. Squash at a party of Christmas. They've never tried fizzy drinks. On the whole my friends are the same with their DC, although I have one who allows her DC to have squash every day. I'm that anyone would give primary aged DC fizzy drinks, just why?? Also sugar free options are just as bad for teeth as artificial sweeteners are acidic

You wonder where the parents of all the teenagers drinking the pint cans of Monster and similar post.

Surely, unless you are a cannibal, any thing plant or meat based that you eat or drink is from another species?

Are breast fed babies cannibals then? 😂 lol.