Drinks for kids, what do you give????????

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I have 2 DD's aged 2.5 and 1.5 during the day i give mi wadi suger free juice, milk, Tea for DD1 as she loves it and i try water. Both never drink fizzy drinks. I am wondering is the mi-wadi bad for them as my DS said there is something in it that is bad for them.

I am wondering what other mums give there kids????

Yes. Cut down on the frequency of sweet things you give her. Brush teeth twice a day. If she is old enough and you don't mind it, give her sugar free gum to chew after meals. Drink sweet things through a straw. Regular checks from the dentist.

I'd far rather my dcs had rotton teeth. than liver disease and nerve damage from sweeteners.

Mine have milk, water, banana smoothie and cocoa at home. They sometimes have fruit juice when we are out. ds has tea sometimes, probably about once a month. he has sugar in it

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My dds love water..the older two now have soft drinks too. But dd3 (aged 3)drinks water or milk.

yes, water with only the occasional juice - only once or twice weekly - and NEVER anything fizzy. I am a bit of a drinks fascist..

I give milk, milk with chocolate powder in, squash, and water. Fruit juice sometimes

Water, occasional juice or smoothie. Sometimes soya milk.

At home it's mostly water (that's the only cold drink us adults drink), sometimes watered down fruit juice, or milk, and sometimes the odd milky coffee at the weekend because ds wants to be like daddy.

When we're out he has juices.

Again, I would much prefer he had sugar than artificial sweeteners.

For 5 year old DD, water, milk, and about half the week she has a carton of fruit juice (never juice drink) in her lunchbox. She has just started pestering me for squash and Coke so we have made a deal - she is allowed one very small glass of Coke on a Saturday night if she promises not to fuss about squash the rest of the week and agrees to only drink water. I am at myself for this, I never thought I'd allow fizzy drinks, but having looked at the ingredients I really don't actually think that it's going to do any harm. I was debating whether to get the caffeine-free stuff, but in the back of my mind I seem to recall something about the chemicals used to take the caffeine out is worse than the caffeine itself. I may have made that up but am in the process of investigating it.

mainly water and milk, follow on milk for dd2 (12 months) and fresh fruit juice at breakfast but at parties/grans houses/days out they are allowed juices. dd1 (4) sometimes gets tastes of my diet coke, but never one to herself.

My DD's are 5yrs old and nearly 2. They have milk in mornings and evening. Dd1 has never had a taste of coke! They drink water or watered down fruit juice, which I always try and buy 'not from concentrate', you should always try and buy it not from concentrate a the soncentrate stuff still has loads of sugar in it.

Also i don't buy any of these sugar free squashes anymore as they are packed full of sweetners which are more damaging and would rather buy the regular squash which has sugar in it.

DS (6) water, milk, apple juice, homemade smoothies, homemade milkshakes, lemonade at weekends
DD(4) water, apple juice, homemade milkshakes

DD is 6y and at home she mainly drinks water. However she will sometimes have apple juice, smoothie or milkshake. When out she may have other fruit juices or lemonade (full sugar to avoid the sweetners) too. She has the very occasionally cup of weak, milky decaf tea too at times, if she asks. It isn;t offered. She has had squash when at parties but isn't as keen, and it isn't something she asks for or something we buy in. She doesn't like milk as a drink.

DS1 (3.5) has anything when we are out except coke.

At home he has ribena, squash 'special juice' (Orangina - it has bits in it must be healthy .

DS2 (1) has water, I have just startHe occasionally helps himself (or is helped to) his brothers drinks.

So shoot me...

Milk first thing in the morning
Juice with meals (Rocks organic or pure fruit diluted down)
Water during day
Milk again at night

I have been known to give them the juice left over from steaming vegetables.

They really like the juice left behind from making stewed apples.

Milk, water, watered down fruit juice.

Fruit Shoots in the morning, Cola throughout the day and a vodka at bed time. Before I brush his teeth, of course.

Seriously, ds is 2 and gets milk, water and recently, very dilute fresh orange.

Well thank you all, very helpfull.. Both DDs eat alot of fruit and have in general a very good diet, will get rid of the mi-widi though.

my dc 9 and 2 get water and milk. ds 9 gets a glass of pure fruit with his breaky and dd has hers very watered down. she has an allergy to whatever is in squash so perfect reason to get her dad to stop giving it to her- i dont like them having it so it doesnt bother me at all. ds does get occasional drink treats of squash or even fizzy when dd isnt with us. but he knows he cant have it when she is because its not fair on her and he is fine with this and says its ok mum its healthier this way