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[Cradle2crayons]

My kids get milk with breakfast, water with am snack. Milk or tea with lunch. Water with snack. Bt my youngest dcg gets diluted warm juice once a day to help with constipation. Then other than that they get water. They love water here but parents of course say they won't drink it at home

[Solandia]

We used to do juice once/WEEK. Then my almost 3yo decided to starting not pooping on purpose....so now we have juice daily for his Miralax. It needs to be taken within a certain time limit & to make sure that happens, its either juice or chocolate almond milk. He needs to keep his liquid intake up (or his stool is not loose enough to force him to go), so I give him diluted juice most of the day or he doesn't drink enough. He USED to be perfectly happy with water, lots of water.

He had to give up all his dairy (he loves cheese, and yogurt was his wake up routine at 5:30am). So, I am giving him a pass on the juice.

[littlemissmuffet]

We used to do juice once/WEEK. Then my almost 3yo decided to starting not pooping on purpose....so now we have juice daily for his Miralax. It needs to be taken within a certain time limit & to make sure that happens, its either juice or chocolate almond milk. He needs to keep his liquid intake up (or his stool is not loose enough to force him to go), so I give him diluted juice most of the day or he doesn't drink enough. He USED to be perfectly happy with water, lots of water.

He had to give up all his dairy (he loves cheese, and yogurt was his wake up routine at 5:30am). So, I am giving him a pass on the juice.

See, this sounds entirely reasonable.

What I cannot stand is people who think juice is a necessity for a child. I have had daycare parents tell me their child NEEDS juice - perfectly fine children who eat lots of fresh fruits and veggies, drink plenty of water, etc.
It's absurd.

[Leigh]

See, this sounds entirely reasonable.

What I cannot stand is people who think juice is a necessity for a child. I have had daycare parents tell me their child NEEDS juice - perfectly fine children who eat lots of fresh fruits and veggies, drink plenty of water, etc.
It's absurd.

I feel the same way about parents who think it is a necessity...and ALL of them around here do feel that way. I believe it's because SO many of these parents use WIC, and WIC gives them juice (for all the GOOD products WIC does not provide, they are training parents to give kids juice!).

We use only 100% juice, with NO added sugar. This juice has NATURALLY occurring sugars, not processed sugars. While kids do NOT need juice, I don't worry about the sugar in the juice, I worry about fostering a sweet tooth at such a young age.

[canadiancare]

it is also about kids who end up thinking that in order to be refreshing, thirst quenching it needs to have flavour (especially sweet)

I grew up in a household that always had cases of gingerale and pepsi but I still preferred water. Now I drink (hot)tea in the morning and afternoon and water the rest of the day. I like the occasional can of Coke (I had a brief period where I was really chugging it) but for a fizzy treat I just run tap water through my soda stream- that over ice with a slice of lime is really nice.