Coca cola

[ColtonsMom]

I will be 100% honest and say yes Dec has had sips of Diet coke, if we are out and he see my glass he wants a sip and he gets it, I am big believer in letting a child taste everything, Dec also gets sweets and crisps as a treat and remember I am a Dental nurse so I know all the risks.

Letting kids taste what you are having is very different to filling their bottle up with the stuff! x

Oh God that goes without saying, Dec never ever got any type of juice in his bottle. And putting coke in a bottle is just asking for bottle rot xx

I'm shocked that anyone would do that! I do like to give Sam tastes of whatever I'm having though - I don't drink much coke but if I'm eating something and he wants to try it I'll let him.

ColtonsMom - Sam's the same with wanting me to try whatever he's eating ...I'm always having soggy food shoved in my mouth x

I know! Yum Yum, soggy food! MY FAV He'll share EVERYTHING! I just gave him some orajel, he took it out of my hand afterwards and put the tip of it in daddy's mouth.. I guess daddy needs some orajel!

 

[Vickie]

Hannah is just dying to try some of my Dr. Pepper but I really don't want her to have the stuff, mostly because I drink it so much and don't really want her to be like that. I do let her have tastes of whatever we're eating though, most lunches we eat together and she "shared" a rice krispy treat with Stan the other day (she had very small bites of course)

 

[Linzi]

We don't have soft drinks in our house ever really. I was never allowed them when I was young so never been fussed about them!

Seth doesn't even like squash so I don't think we have to worry about fizzy pop! I'd never give him it anyway done me no harm

xxx

 

[ryder]

Theres no way Jasmine will be getting any pop. I knew a women who had a 1 year old and 2 year old and they were brats about pop. Thats ALL they wanted to drink.

Luckily Tom and I dont drink pop anyways except if we go out to dinner sometimes. We dont keep it in the house.

 

[tasha41]

We never have pop in the house, or juice even aside from orange juice normally (unless preggo buys it lol).. my boyfriend has a condition that causes his teeth to decay, there's a 50/50 chance the baby will have it also, so NOOOO pop, NOOOO juice for this LO!

 

[tasha41]

TBH I'd be afraid of the consequences of giving a bottle full of pop, the hyperactivity that would ensue!!

 

[babezone]

archie isnt going to having any fizzy...its so easy to get addicted to it i should no llol. even wen he wants a taste its going to be a no thats yukky xx

 

[nikky0907]

You know if you put a perfectly healthy adult tooth in a glass of coca-cola it will dissolve in the span of 72 hours.

Personally, filling kids bottles up with such crap is crazy imo.
As long as I have control over what Lola is eating she will have as healthy as possible diet... But getting a taste of something is completely different - it actually benefits because when kids aren't allowed to eat something it will only trigger their curiosity and cravings for it.

 

[brownhairedmom]

Yes giving a taste of what you have is different than letting them drink it on a regular basis. My cousins are 8 & 4 and won't drink anything BUT coke/pepsi. Its sooo unhealthy. I just remember that when truck drivers transport the actual coke syrup, they have to have a sign that says "highly corrosive material". I'm not putting that in my baby's tummy!

 

[Pyrrhic]

I never had fizzy drinks growing up, and sweets and crisps were very rare and such a treat when we did get them. I've already started cutting back on rubbish down to one can of coke and one bag of crisps a day. I'm hoping to banish them totally soon, before Niamh starts taking an interest in what I'm eating. OH grew up with a sweetie and coke cupboard that he could just dip into whenever he wanted Even now OH drinks about 4 cans a day.

I'm trying to get healthy and fit myself and I don't really want Niamh eating rubbish so I feel I'd be a bit of a hypocrite if I just ate it all myself and didn't let her have any. I might have a secret stash that gets taken out at night after her bedtime

 

[Faerie]

I grew up without fizzy drinks or cordial, even when I went to birthday parties and they'd ask "do you want coke or lemonade" and I'd say "water please"... god, must have been seen as a freak From about the age of 10 coke or lemonade was available if my parents were having a party, so I guess a couple of times per year. I never really had much interest, I think the time I started to drink it was at college because it would be half filled with rum..

Even now the only time I tend to drink coke is with alcohol BUT, and this is really weird, it's the one thing I started to crave when I got pregnant! Strange.

I would prefer my children don't have access to fizzy drinks or sweet on a regular basis.