Do your children drink pop/soda?

[Planogirl]

We all drink soft drinks here. One large bottle of Diet Pepsi lasts me a week and a bottle of Coke will last DH even longer. DS is allowed to have some caffeine free Dr Pepper but if he starts to drink too much of it, I will quit buying it for a while.

Plus when we're on vacation or out, all bets are off and we drink what we want.

 

[Dakota_Lynn]

Originally posted by DMickey28
I am not sure what is so wrong with soda. Everything in moderation of course!

I am 25 and I don't remember ever being limited to what I drank. I don't remember drinking a ton of soda but I wasn't a huge water drinker either.

I find it interesting all the different things that we did as kids are now soooo taboo.... It's a wonder we made it!

I need to start reading up and researching all this stuff before we have kids. I certainly don't want to have that one child that all the other mothers talk about and wonder what in the world their parents are thinking!

I have several reasons for limiting my daughter's soda and sugar intake. 1) She has ADHD, and sugar doesn't help the situation at all! 2) Studies have shown that the more soda people drink as kids, the more likely they will grow up to be obese adults. 3) Most of the adults in my family are overwieght...I deperately want to break that chain. 4) I feel that water is the absolute best thing a person can put into his or her body, and I want to encourage my daughter to have a lifelong habit of drinking water regularly.

 

[BrerLizzie]

this may have been posted, i didnt read everything but...
when i was younger my friends mom didnt like him to have pop so she would put a little bit of sprite or 7-up into juice so it was pop, but still had the healthy stuff that juice had..

 

[shortbun]

Well, this has been an interesting read! I'm curious about the
households who don't limit it and their kids don't abuse it.
My DS doesn't have that kind of personality as of yet.
Another thing DS isn't allowed to have is caffeine. I have bought
caffeine free Mountain Dew recently because his cousin loves
and drinks lots of it-with the caffeine. I like Mountain Dew too,
the caffeine free taste doesn't quite match the original but it's
ok. I've started drinking Crystal Light with Splenda. I don't
like what I've heard about Aspartame and the brain damage
so none of it in my house. I hope Splenda doesn't cause some
horrible disease. At any rate, DS isn't drinking that either.
As a fat person, I'm determined to teach my DS how to avoid the
pitfalls and possible addictive eating practices my parents
taught me. I'm trying really hard to lose weight and he sees how
hard that is so without harping on it too much, I just calmly say
"that's not a great or healthy choice."

 

[ptcruisermom]

Originally posted by Dakota_Lynn
I have several reasons for limiting my daughter's soda and sugar intake. 1) She has ADHD, and sugar doesn't help the situation at all! 2) Studies have shown that the more soda people drink as kids, the more likely they will grow up to be obese adults. 3) Most of the adults in my family are overwieght...I deperately want to break that chain. 4) I feel that water is the absolute best thing a person can put into his or her body, and I want to encourage my daughter to have a lifelong habit of drinking water regularly.

Your # 2 and 3 interest me quite a bit. see my previous post on no restricitons on kids. i did not have restrictions on pop as a kid either, but at my DH house no pop allowed what so ever. None of my siblings or I are overweight, but all of my DH are includiing him

 

[C.Ann]

My kids (all adults in their 30's now) never had soda when they were younger.. I never liked it myself (the carbonation gives me migraines) and I couldn't get the picture out of my head of my cousin who drank soda every day and at the age of 16 did not have ONE tooth in her mouth that wasn't ENTIRELY black (and yes, she had to have them ALL extracted) - so - I never bought it for my kids..

When they became teenagers, they tried it (at friend's houses or with their own money) and lo and behold only ONE of them even "kinda" liked it.. One still drinks it on occasion, the others don't drink it at all..

 

[disykat]

I'm curious if the people who always have/had pop in their house also have other junk food. It always amazes me that other people keep chips, ice cream, cookies, etc. in their homes all the time. We don't and I didn't grow up with any of that stuff around. My dh grew up with dessert every night so it was a surprise to him when we married that I considered dessert a once a week or company event. (DH is very thin but his sister and mother are obese & in my family most of us fight weight gain.)

It never occured to me I was being restrictive. I just think junk food costs too much and doesn't have much nutritional value.

 

[Dakota_Lynn]

Originally posted by ptcruisermom
Your # 2 and 3 interest me quite a bit. see my previous post on no restricitons on kids. i did not have restrictions on pop as a kid either, but at my DH house no pop allowed what so ever. None of my siblings or I are overweight, but all of my DH are includiing him

I said studies show that there is a greater likelihood that children drinking too much soda will becoming obese as an adult. That in no way suggests that EVERY person who drinks soda will be overweight, nor does it suggest that NOT drinking soda will guarantee that you will be thin. There are lots of factors involved in weight problems, and excessive sugar consumption is ONE of them.

It's the same conecpt behind cigarette smoking or radiation exposure: There are links between these two things and getting cancer. That doesn't mean there aren't VERY heavy smokers who live to be 100 or people who are exposed to radiation who never get tumors. That doesn't prove the studies to in incorrect, though. Research shows that there is a much higher rate of cancer in smokers...not that EVERY smoker gets cancer. Research shows that there is a higher rate of obesity in people who drink a lot of soda, not that ALL soda drinkers are overweight.

Did I really have to explain this?

 

[browneyes]

My kids drink on average 1 cola drink a day. On weekends, they might drink 2 a day. My dd prefers to drink water more than anything. My ds prefers milk or orange juice. I don't limit their cola intake.

 

[hockeymom7691]

I am very very lucky!!! My 12 yr old DS HATES pop (soda)!!! He has tried it a few times and ABSOLUTELY won't drink it, never has.

He drinks tons of water and milk. He also drinks gatorade & orange juice.

I don't know where he got the dislike of pop from because I am the BIGGEST Diet Pepsi addict!!

 

[Gupsmom]

I grew being allowed to drink pop (soda). I would guess that I now have a small glass of pop every 2-3 days.

My kids (4, 5 and 6) aren't big pop drinkers, but not because we make a very big deal about it. My older 2 will order pop about 50% of the time if we go out to eat (chocolate milk or lemonade cover the other 50%). My youngest drinks calcium fortified orange juice or cranberry juice. She doesn't really like pop. At home, my kids almost never ask for pop. They drink diet V8 splash, applejuice or some other juice (often watered down).

I guess, I tend not to make a big deal out of these things unless it gets out of hand. I think you can end up with the exact results you are trying to avoid if you make too much of an issue out of many things.

Jess

 

[Stepharoonie!]

While I do not drink soda, I let Maddy drink it once in awhile.

 

[Samandmom]

My DS thinks soda is for adults only. But recently he has tried root beer and he likes it. He does not think it is soda. But I don't buy it for him. He might have root beer at Grandma's sometimes.
A friend of mine will give her DD soda in her sippy cup. I noticed this about a year ago. Her DD just turned 2 in December.

 

[Kimickey]

DD does not drink soda. It's either 100% juice such as Juicy Juice or water. DH and I don't drink soda's either, we like V8 Slash and water.

 

[sue1013]

Disykat yes I'm one that grew up with soda/junk food always in our house. Also always have in my own house now. That doesn't mean I let my kids eat junk instead of meals. We are certainly not obese. I've gained 20 lbs since I've been out of high school and I'm now 45. DH has probably gained about the same. Neither of my kids was ever overweight, in fact my son (18) has trouble gaining the weight he wants to for football. I love my sweets but that doesn't mean I gorge on them. Just because something is there you don't have to overdo and if its always there its not such a big deal.

 

[Serena]

I drink it, and my kids get it occassionally. My oldest doesn't like carbonation so she drinks it if there is nothing else to choose.
The friends that come over expect it though.