Coca cola for DCs of 3, 5 and 6 is just wrong, right?

[anonymousbird]

Isn't it?

6yrd old as a once in a while concession is OK I think. But not for 3yr old.

My DD3 is 3.5 and loves coke - she had some on holiday for the first time. It's not like I pour it over her Weetabix

No big deal to me - I'd rather get worked up about people feeding their children shite and smoking around them than giving them the odd glass of fizzy syrupy fluid.

Oh FGS, get a grip. What does it matter if other people give their children Coke? Mine have it along with tea, water, fruit juice and chocolate milkshake. It's just another drink. I used to have a can a day in my packed lunch (along with crisps and chocolate bars), and I've never so much as smoked a cigarette, never mind become a drug addict. What a load of hot air about nothing.

Caffiene CAN be addictive. There is a very important difference. I drink things with caffiene in, yet I am not addicted to caffiene.

And it comes in plastic bottles. PLASTIC bottles. Gulp.

Call Social Services, call the police, but for god's sake save those poor children before it's too late.

i became addicted when i had my son, i had pnd and didn't want to eat, so to keep my energy up i drank coffee, coke, red bull, and had a toasted cheese sandwhich before bed when he was asleep, i couldn't think about making food for me when i was like that.
I still drink a lot, but am weaning myself, but last week i went 2 days without it and i felt like i needed to go to hospital, the withdrawl was worse with coke than with smoking IME.

Well personally I don't think so.

My dc drink only water, juice or milk, no squash or anything like that, they don't like it. If we were out and about we would take water or buy water.

But if we have a meal out or something then they can have coke or lemonade.

I think a blanket ban on ALL fizzy drinks is just precious really.

I'm completely addicted to Coke and drink it almost exclusively. As a child we never had fizzy drinks in the house and I only got into it in my twenties.
There is always coke in the house, but the DDs don't drink it, nor do they ask to. But when we are out they may ask for a fizzy drink and I'd always let them. Banning something makes it more desirable, although you have to give your reasons why you don't allow it on a regular basis.
If I don't start the day with a glass of coke I will have a raging headache by 10am.

"Never, ever use lemon juice in cooking then!"

I don't throw 350 ml of it down me throat

Well put me down as an awful mum then. My dd (3) loves a glass of 'special juice' i.e coke, lemonade, cloudy lemonade etc. Ive just got her on to lime & soda water too. and my 18mnth old loves a glug of 7-Up when we have a meal out.
But... I drink 2L+ per day and have never had a filing. I dont smoke, nor does anyone else around my kids, and we live in the country so lots of fresh air and excersice.

I think I have more to worry about.

Next?

Sigh

My kids have only water to drink - distilled that you get from Boots as can't trust the stuff in the taps/bottled water.

They eat no red meat (full of chemicals, raises your cholesterol) no chicken (salmonella) no fish (mercury).Only home grown organic vegetables.No pasta or bread ( contains gluten - bread has yeast too must think of the candida levels) only organic brown rice. No other carbs as affects GI, so no biscuits, crisps (too much salt anyway)sweets (just think of the fillings!) nothing with additives in (all those E numbers) cakes (too much saturated fats)..........

Why are people so concerned about the way other people raise their children nowadays. Surely as long as it isn't abusive it really isn't any of your business and nobody should have to justify why and what they give their child for a "treat" or on a daily occurence if it isn't putting the child in danger. It's coca cola not coke (anymore ) so what does it really matter.

ahh! this is one of those threads where the OP is pretending to be shocked when what she is actually do is being a big judgy pants!!!

Runny Bottom...

You asked if caffeine is addictive, so:
(full article here www.nursingtimes.net/nursing-practice-clinical-research/caffeine-addiction-and-its-effects/200735.ar ticle )

Caffeine is physically addictive. It results in tolerance, requiring progressively higher doses to produce an effect, and people experience the effects of withdrawal after chronic use (Carson and Arnold, 1996). A day of unusually high consumption may result in a withdrawal headache that could last as long as three days (Sutcliffe, 1991). Complete withdrawal can result in up to six weeks of depression, headache, irritability and drowsiness.

Mental health nurses who try to reduce patients' anxiety by encouraging them to exclude caffeine from their diets may inadvertently generate the symptoms of depression.

Caffeine produces tolerance and causes withdrawal symptoms because the body's excitatory nerves and endocrine glands compensate for their potentiation by producing progressively lower amounts of the catecholamine neurotransmitters and hormones (Merkley, 1993).

Downdog - do you mean you don't have fizzy drinks in the house? Neither do I, except on high days and holidays. But 12 year olds are not under your eye all the time - I am sure you 12 year olds buy their own drinks sometimes and go to other people's houses.Be they drink fizzy then!

yeah, Downdog, id agree with Seeker's above comment here, bless you, but im pretty sure he'd having it elsewhere unless he actually doesnt like it!

this is an interesting thread. personally i keep the fizzy drinks to a minimum because of the tooth experiment and also, it makes me gain weight like mad!

for my kids i only ever bought it for them on special occassions, i dont see why else you would buy it otherwise tbh.
so they had it birthdays, maybe weekends, definately on holidays.

i feel sorry for the people on this thread who drink 2L a day, thats a proper addiction! i wouldnt be worried based on the fizzy stuff itself, just that i drank that much of it!

but on the whole i think there's more to worry about. everything in moderation and all that.

no it isn't coke any more but it is still a drug and it still can possibly casue your dc to have physical problems from having a daily glass of coke.

Why does it concern me or anyone else, because it could end up with that child having health problems that I and others will have to pay for, not only could we end up paying for those problems it could mean that other people have to wait for problems that are not enduced by daily treats.

Banning your DCs from fizzy drinks is a sure way to make them crave it! (being sure to look you in the face and tell you what you want to hear!)
You don't have to have in the house (we only have it for high days and holidays)but you don't have to freak out if they drink it at a party. It is an aquired taste anyway-mine weren't banned-they just tried it and didn't like it until about 6 yrs anyway.
I am a bit puzzled as to how anyone stops a 10 or 11yr old drinking coke.
People need to chill out a bit-what you eat or drink most of the time is what matters and I don't see the need to glamorise fizzy drinks.

sorry acquired

It was DS's 3rd birthday yesterday and he was gutted when I wouldn't let him have a cup of Pepsi Max that the older kids were quaffing. He did puppy eyes at me and went "is my buffday mummy, aw please? please?" so I relented.

I feel a bit for letting him, especially since I used to cuss about parents giving their kids fizzy "pop" but then when you think about it, it's probably less sugar than a small chocolate bar, right?

I don't get the big deal about sugar, either. If children eat a generally balanced diet and run around a lot, why on earth shouldn't sugar be included in this?

(I'd give Pepsi Max a miss, myself - not worried about sugar, but I am wary of artificial sweeteners).

ds1 (5) doesn't like fizzy drinks. Probably because when he showed curiosity at my glass of Dr Pepper when he was about 18 months I poured him some of his own & let him try it freezing cold & very fizzy. I wouldn't ban it as I think banning children from things makes them irresistible. I try to allow him everything but in moderation in the hope he'll moderate himself when he's old enough to escape my clutches. I do avoid diet versions of everything however as I think all these artificial sweeteners & other things added to diet foods to make them edible are pretty revolting.

yup. However, my old gp used to tell me to give them flat coke (sugar one not diet) when they had the trots. He preferred them to be given that to dioralyte.

I'm still getting away with letting my 3yo DS think it's just for grown-ups, you know, like wine