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I wouldn't give in either but I'd probably once or twice a week serve those drinks to all the kids. If she's thirsty enough she'll drink it.
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When my niece was little she would ONLY drink strawberry milk too, she stayed a week with me once and I didn't have any strawberry syrup so I used a drop of red food coloring and told her it was strawberry milk. She fell for it and I never did buy the strawberry syrup, just kept using the food coloring. She was 4 when this happened. Placebos work well sometimes.Comment
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Create an activity
If she will not even drink water but likes strawberry milk, how about creating a fun activity? Use food coloring as a way to introduce the color. I would prepare water glasses with a few different colors and then leave one without color. Maybe create a "COLORS" week theme and do this for an after-nap and pre-snack activity so everyone's well rested. Let the girl know it's okay to try new things and talk about how neat all the colors are. How they smell (the same) and taste (the same).
Another day, freeze ice cubes in the different colors and put in just plain water cups and do the same type of activity. Maybe have a red and blue ice cube and one drink and talk about how the colors look together. This may create a fun activity for all the kids....ice cubes are fun in general until they get taken out of the glass,
, BUT when someone tastes it and she see's all the "big kids" having fun drinking it, she will too.
Let me know if you go this route, I would like to see how it works. These can be science categories for color changes and solids/liquids or math activities for counting and grouping colors.Comment
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i'm tired just reading that.
say NO and call it a day
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Juice is okay in moderation, I give orange juice every morning for breakfast.
Have you thought of mixing the milk with strawberry yogurt? It works for one of my kids--all sorts of yummy flavors to try, actually--he would not drink milk but will drink half milk with half yogurt.Comment
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I would say...you get what you get and you don't throw a fit!!
Milk and water only.Comment
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- depends on where you're from! i was like "git and upset don't rhyme"
but of course gEt usually sounds like GIT around here. so, git and fit would be the rhyming phrase.
when i used to give spelling tests, i always had to make a point to stress words like gEt and pEn because even an ink pen sounds like PIN.Comment
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haha, that's an excellent point. - depends on where you're from! i was like "git and upset don't rhyme"
but of course gEt usually sounds like GIT around here. so, git and fit would be the rhyming phrase.
when i used to give spelling tests, i always had to make a point to stress words like gEt and pEn because even an ink pen sounds like PIN. Lots of people around here say git instead of get, but I have a pesky tendency to enunciate. I got made fun of once for pronouncing the name of "Huntington" bank as "Hunt-ing-ton" rather than "hunnington". Yeah, I think it's all the theatre training I had as a child/teenager.
Hee hee! Look, I have a signature!Comment
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gonna be another long day i think....already started whining
she came IN with a cup of strawberry milk
told her once its gone she gets water only, she melted
gonna stand my ground but i know she wont drink the water no matter what...i really didnt think she would become dehydrated, it was just an example i guess...just dont want any problems becasue she refuses to drink all day basicallyComment
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:-( That really stinks. I wouldn't have told her that she only gets water after that and just waited until it was time to give her something else. Essentially you started a fight before there was need for it. JMO, not trying to be mean. We all do our own things.gonna be another long day i think....already started whining
she came IN with a cup of strawberry milk
told her once its gone she gets water only, she melted
gonna stand my ground but i know she wont drink the water no matter what...i really didnt think she would become dehydrated, it was just an example i guess...just dont want any problems becasue she refuses to drink all day basicallyComment
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here i water everyones juice down. one day 6 yr dcb saw me watering down the baby's juice and says " boy i'm glad you dont do that to mine, i wouldnt drink it." too bad ive only been doing it to his too for the last two years
here its milk with breakfast and lunch, 1/2 juice with snack, and water in between.
and me personally, i wouldnt give in either.
here we say.."you get what you get and dont pitch a fit"Comment
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I would have handed the cup of milk right back to her parent and said no cups here.Comment
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