when exactly can you give your lo's conventional drinks of squash?

[snowkitten]

ds is nearly one and i just give him water. Obviously he is OK with this as he has had not altertive on offer but recently he has had some of his sister's fruit squash from a glass and loves it! Is it OK to give it to him in his beaker?

Here's an explanation of 'not from concentrate'. My rule of thumb for everything is the less processed the better.

superalien....but some children will NOT drink water - I know I tried hard enough with DS1 and DS2, and have now given up with DS3 as I've realised it's not worth the tears I get from him! I'd rather he just has 1oz of milk and wastes the rest of the bottles than have tears and get no more than one short suck out of him!

if you dont drink water yourselves, then your dc are unlikely to drink it.
i have noticed it is always the people who dont drink it that complain the loudest about their dc not drinking water.in rl that is. mn may be different.

If mine are being funny I call it 'water juice' which seems to fool them!

superalien - we permanently have a large jug of filtered water in the fridge (which has to be refilled on a daily basis as it's emptied) , DH and I drink it lots - infact most of the time if I'm not drinking coffee or vodka , I'm drinking water. I do have the odd glass of squash but not very often.

qoq, we were brought up to drink water at meal times, orange juice with breakfast. and tea as a hot drink. when thirsty, we were only ever offerd water.
i do the same with my dc. and they drink water, at mealtimes. and otherwise as well, since i dont let them have tea.
since i dont buy squash of any sort, its just not an issue. they can scream all they want for it, butif its not in the house, they cant have it.
for picnics i will let them have things like caprisun, but they know it is a treat.

i stopped buying juice when i started doing the atkins diet. i foiund that i would buy this really expensive tropicana orange juice, and then have to throw it away as the kids had forgotten to have it.
when they are thirsty, they have no option but to have water.
the boys like milk, and sometimes help themselves to that. but dd has a slight lactose intolerance, so she wont have straight milk.
dh was brought up on squash, but even he drinks water now. its a british thing, this obsession with squash.

i have always wanted a filter jug for water. but am lucky to live in an area where the water from the tap tastes fine.

lol flibberty - I tried that with DS2. I bought the 2 older DS's some brightly coloured water bottles (with straws that go around the outside) at the start of the holidays (they can and do drink from a proper glass when they have to but I'm fed up of cleaning up spilt juice from the floor on a daily basis lol) - both coloured so that they can't see what's inside properly.

DS1 - chopping and changin between water and squash (it "only" took 5yrs to get him to drink it - and that was because of school friends!), DS2 I fill it up for him. Because the colours aren't clear with the coloured plastic I have (on several occasions) filled it up with plain water and told him he's got orange squash..........on each occasion the bottle has remained undrunk and he's proclaimed "It's WAAAAAAAATEEEEEEEEER" (horrible Northants accent I'm afraid ). I thought I'd get away with it....but apparently not.

LOL at Flibberty - your DCs are either gullible to the point of imbecility or very young ...

super - my children would (and have done when not watched carefully) go the ENTIRE day without drinking anything at all. If I hadn't let them drink the squash from the sort of age when milk was less frequent (neither would drink it from a glass/cup/tumbler etc once they stopped breast/bottle) they would almost certainly have drunk nothing. Bottles of water they were given went completely untouched - and I'd rather my children drink "cr*p" than become dehydrated.

superalienstitch re; "its a british thing, this obsession with squash"

...I think the only people who are obsessed with squash are those who completely embargo it

and I don't think it is a British thing - DH adores his water - as he grew up on a diet of carbonated drinks and Mazoe Orange Squash! Tap water wasn't drinkable without boiling first and fruit juice far too expensive.

I am not obsessed with it. I have not thought of it for years. Why would I?

Anyhow Satan, should you not be out bargaining with people?

As it happens my children tend to drink water, milk and fruit juice ....but if they are offered squash at a party or we're in a cafe / bar where there are few alternatives I tend not to have a hissy fit about the odd ribena. It's great to be grounded.

Er, they are only 2 and 1.... I am under no illusions that this trick is very time limited....

Hurlyburly - you're a tricky one. Don't mess with the devil

At the moment I have pure orange juice, ribena (no sugar free or lite in this house), orange drinks (part juice mainly water based), water, pure apple juice and milk in our fridge. Ds(3) is allowed to help himself and actually he chooses fairly evenly and always likes to take a bottle of water to the park ?!

to op, I can't remember that far back. I reckon 1 is fine as long as water/milk are themain drinks.

ooh what about 'cordial'. I call it squash but dh insists its cordial! must be his middle class thang lol

Ribena, ribena, ribena, ribena

cordial's just a class thing.

Is there a problem with squash? Do I need to read the whole long thread?

No there is no problem with squash, there might be a problem with RIBENA though!

(Quick someone pass hurlyburly a fan and some smelling salts)

but why would you want to????????