Does your DC primary school allow squash through a hot day?

[Neowwwm]

Sent my DC with a non- see through bottle with juice in today as since weaning and trying - DC has never drank plain water. Teacher removed the bottle stating water only in the day which will be provided with their own water bottles from school and juice only at lunch time.

AIBU or should this rule be relaxed during heatwaves?

@caringcarer that's unfair to say. Many adults don't like drinking plain water and prefer something to flavour it. And if you tasted the tap water in my area you'd be put off drinking plain water too!

We had this too.

My son was hospitalised with a very bad case of bronch at 8 months old and was really weak. The doctors and nurses all gave him juice for the extra sugar and I was told to continue giving it to him for a couple of weeks afterwards too and (in their words!) "None of that sugar free stuff".

After that it was tricky getting him back to water. He will drink water now but it was hard.

There's a lot of ignorance on this thread - sadly the number of people on MN denying the existence of conditions like autism, sensory processing disorder and ARFID no longer surprises me.

Some children will refuse to drink to the point or hospitalisation if they're only allowed the choice of water.

Water only at ours
Remember the drinks fountains in the 80s? They did not dispense squash. How did we cope?!
By the way, sweet drinks can be fattening

Water only but I send mine with flavoured water.

@Mally100

Exactly!! Where do people come up with this? How can he never drink water?

People 'come up with it' because of their own lives experiences.

Local schools still had drinking fountains until COVID!

And this is an excellent example for reasons why we have a huge problem with childrens teeth in the UK. Bottles of squash that coat kids teeth in sugar throughout the day and then parents wonder why they need extractions and fillings whilst still in primary school.

Surely flavoured water can still be sticky

Two children who will drink water one who will not the school have tried I have tried he refuses on hot days the school have squash to offer children like mine that refuse water he won't drink that either he will only drink ONE type of squash he will drink fizzy stuff but I won't buy it unless it's Christmas

It’s strange how human beings physiology has changed in my lifetime. My small primary school had no drinking fountains and only provided water at lunchtime after a parent donated jugs and glasses( true!) . None of us collapsed with hydration issues and indeed did exceptionally well in Common Entrance and 11 plus exams .My academic secondary school had drinking fountains and provided water at lunchtime. I then went into the wide world of college and work and managed to get by on the odd cup of tea/ drink at lunchtime. It is only in the last ten years or so that the human body has made this enormous evolutionary jump which requires it to have constant access to cold liquids.

I accept that it is a good thing to drink water especially in hot weather , but really find the notion that children ( and some adults) must be attached to a water bottle at all times or they will die really rather precious. Now, if you will excuse me, I have a bunker I need to be sheltering in…….

Water only at ours
Remember the drinks fountains in the 80s? They did not dispense squash. How did we cope?!

Well my non water drinker would simply not have drunk at all. He would have got dehydrated, the heat this week is ridiculous (and I'm in Scotland) and he may or may not have struggled with his focus (already a problem due to being autistic) and basically has a really shot day where he felt unwell. He would t have been able to take on 'extra' when he got home, even squash was hard enough to get him to drink, so over the course of a week could become very ill quite quickly. He also wouldn't have had the level of understanding or support in school so when his behaviour started to escalate nobody would stop to realise it was due to him not having had a drink. We probably would have ended up in hospital many many times.

Yay to your 80s throwback though

Because they don't always put the lids back on properly and they get knocked over.
Or excess liquid runs down the outside of the bottle as they drink from it, creating a sticky puddle when they put it back on the table.
Because icy cold liquid (particularly from those bottles left in the freezer overnight) creates condensation rings (not a 'squash' issue per se, but a good reason for not having bottles on the tables).

I think when you have lived with a child so disabled by their condition that they can't drink water their teeth is not a major factor in deciding to give the squash. As it happens my mind water drinker, who is now an adult, has a fine set of teeth. They are of fuck all use to him though, when he can't function in society. But yeah, all my own fault.

Put some fruit in the bottle to flavour the water. You should be actively trying to get them to develop a taste for water, too much squash or juice is unhealthy.
if you live in an area where the water is manky try a brita filter

When I was at primary school, we weren't allowed to take any drinks to school at all. We got given water at lunch (in weird metal beakers, for some reason) and there was a water fountain we could drink from at break times.

I didn't 'like' water at that age either - it was the early 1980s, nobody drank anything at home that didn't have about 12 teaspoons of sugar in it - but I drank it because that was the only option. I'm guessing your child will manage to do the same.

But the OP hasn't indicated that her DC has any of these disorders.

It’s water only and that’s as it should be. Once one starts to be allowed squash then they all want it and drinking that all day is incredibly bad for children.

Our school aren't bothered if they take juice

Which is good because ds 9 has asd and has never drank water ever. And yeah he'd rather dehydrate and end up ill. He's never had milk either

How about those Air Up things @Neowwwm? The smell is supposed to trick your mind into thinking you’re drinking something other than water.

The amount of children who are so disabled that they cannot drink plain water (rather than would just rather not and know they will be given surgery squash if they make enough fuss) is absolutely tiny. If thats your child though then that’s fair enough.

@10HailMarys

You are right OP hasn't said her DC has ASD or anything. However I think posters saying a while will drink water if they are only given water are naive at best and it's absolutely fine for others to respond to that, even if it isn't directly about OPDS

My DD8 is horrendous at going for a wee, she would happily go when she wakes up, and when she goes to bed. That’s all, and that’s if prompted. However if she’s really hydrated then she will go in the middle of the day. I realised recently that her bottle was coming home nearly full each day, she basically wasn’t drinking at school. She’s always had minimal squash, it’s not that she doesn’t like water. In desperation I have started putting in a tiny bit of squash and have found that bottle is now coming home either totally empty or with water in as she’s had to refill it. She is high risk for teeth cavities as her enamel is weak so it’s not a situation I’m happy with, but I’ve had to weigh it up between risk of UTI, dehydration, lack of focus in school and the risk of cavities.

Ours is water only

We tried water in a different cup as my son will only have blackcurrant from a certain store in a babys bottle.
2 days he refused to drink! Nearly ended up in hospital!
And we done that on the Senso and S&L said so!
Never again will I put my child through that!
So yes some additional needs will not tolerate water.
All my other children will drink it.