https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:35:41 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/juice-at-daycare#post-1851336 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 21:16:44 +0000 mediagirl 1851336@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks for the great discussion on this. The info I'm pulling is from a daycare center's menu online. I plan on visiting the site at some point and asking about the excessive juice and if offering water would be a problem. </p> <p>@Mrs.Pinecone316: right. This is something to consider as I want her to stay wherever we move her to until she is 5. She is 2 now. The current center she is in offers juice 3x/week and they give her water when the other kids get juice. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/juice-at-daycare#post-1851329 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 21:08:44 +0000 lucy123 1851329@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>1.) Yes, once a week with snack.<br /> 2.) I have them give her water and bring in a pouch or something else for her to have. I let her have juice for special occasions but I prefer to be the one to give it to her :)<br /> 3.) Nope and while it's not ideal that they serve juice I wouldn't view it as a deal breaker by any means! I am sure they would have no issue giving water! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/juice-at-daycare#post-1851317 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 20:44:46 +0000 JoyfulKiwi 1851317@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>1) No, they only serve water at snack times. In fact, there was apple juice yesterday morning for the Grandparent's breakfast and the kids were like "JUICE?!?!". I explained it's a "special occasion" and I limited it to one glass (I teach preschool at my son's center).<br /> 2) Yes, it should be no problem at all to give water!<br /> 3) No, you are not weird at all. Offer to bring in a full water bottle each day, if you want. We have children who bring in lactose-free milk and that's easily served to them at breakfast/lunch. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/juice-at-daycare#post-1851279 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 19:52:15 +0000 regberadaisy 1851279@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Daycare occasionally does and they know not to give LO juice. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/juice-at-daycare#post-1851275 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 19:46:56 +0000 Mrs.Pinecone316 1851275@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I totally understand you not wanting juice if thats what you do at home. How old is your LO? I think the biggest problem would be if they were old enough to hear that the other kids have juice and they don't and that causing problems keeping everyone happy for the day care providers. If LO is still young to not know the different I don't think it would be a problem. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/juice-at-daycare#post-1851251 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 19:22:20 +0000 californiadreams 1851251@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was all set to request no juice at daycare and was pleasantly surprised when our daycare said they no longer serve it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/juice-at-daycare#post-1851234 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 18:44:52 +0000 matador84 1851234@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Juice is full of sugar. I just read an article the other day that called it candy water. If my daycare gives something I don't want DS to have, I just tell them nope and they stop serving it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/juice-at-daycare#post-1851172 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 16:59:51 +0000 Adira 1851172@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>1. Yes<br /> 2. Yes<br /> 3. Nope! I asked them to give Xander his hemp milk instead of juice since he usually doesn't drink enough during the day. They were totally fine with it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/juice-at-daycare#post-1851143 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 16:26:03 +0000 sarac 1851143@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would honestly not use a center that has that kind of attitude about feeding if I had any other choice. If they think that juice and fruit are equivalent, what other kind of suspect food choices are they making? </p> <p>As people have pointed out, it's a bad idea to single your child out and to make them feel like the odd one. I'd try to avoid that if possible, but man. I would just never let anyone feed my child juice twice a day. Twice! Once, I could maybe calm down about. Maybe. But twice! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/juice-at-daycare#post-1851135 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 16:14:01 +0000 sunny 1851135@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would just ask to substitute with water or milk. Our daycare had a communal pitcher of milk for all the kids but we brought our own milk substitute when she had a milk sensitivity and it wasn't a problem for them to give it to her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/juice-at-daycare#post-1851120 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 15:59:59 +0000 yellowbird 1851120@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would not accept juice as an alternative to fruit. That is ludicrous! I would absolutely say no juice and pack my own fresh fruit for her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/juice-at-daycare#post-1851074 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 15:16:18 +0000 yoursilverlining 1851074@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>1. No, never. Heck, they even had to cancel a planned art activity that used kool-aid powder to paint with because parents were worried their kids might have an isolated kool-aid powder eating incident (lol)</p> <p>2. Yes; they should provide water.</p> <p>3. NO, not weird at all. We only give juice as a special treat (aka, bribe) so I don't want daycare coming and taking my bribery tool away! Plus, they don't need juice at this age, so it's not like you are saying not to feed her veggies or something. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/juice-at-daycare#post-1851057 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 15:00:53 +0000 Freckles 1851057@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>1. Yes, sometimes paired with a cookie (don't even get me started)<br /> 2. Yes, for sure<br /> 3. Nope, we requested "no juice" until just recently when LO moved to the older toddler room (2 years old) but LO dislikes juice/milk and will only drink water. Sometimes she'll drink juice. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/juice-at-daycare#post-1851049 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:58:26 +0000 Smurfette 1851049@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>1) NO<br /> 2) Yes<br /> 3) Not at all! Her old center offered it and I asked that she only have water. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/juice-at-daycare#post-1851042 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:54:48 +0000 blackbird 1851042@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>1. No<br /> 2. Yep<br /> 3. Nope! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/juice-at-daycare#post-1851031 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:48:23 +0000 Kimberlybee 1851031@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am not comfortable with letting my DD drink juice everyday so I don't think it's a strange request to ask for water or milk. Once in a while at a party is okay but drinking that daily is excessive. </p> <p>1) SAHM -I offer milk or water with snacks.<br /> 2) Yes -perfectly acceptable to request water<br /> 3) No- you are not weird, I think it's a great decision. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/juice-at-daycare#post-1851006 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:38:24 +0000 lamariniere 1851006@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes<br /> Yes<br /> No. </p> <p>My son's daycare has self-service drinks for the kids. They have two types of juice, milk and water and they can help themselves all day long. I have tried to tell DS to only drink milk or water, but of course I can't control what he's doing. But culturally, it seems that people here are much more inclined to give kids juice than in the US. We very rarely have it at home, so I just kind of shrug it off for daycare. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/juice-at-daycare#post-1850999 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:35:22 +0000 Ra 1850999@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm sure you wouldn't be the first (or last) parent to make this request! It's not at all unreasonable. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/juice-at-daycare#post-1850993 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:32:43 +0000 Mrs. Lion 1850993@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>1. No, its not weird. At the center I worked at we used very diluted juice, but it was still juice.</p> <p>2. Yes, they can easily provide water. The only problem will be if the kids serve themselves from a pitcher at the table (our 3-5 year olds did this) and your child is the only one getting just water, she may feel singled out since she wont be able to participate. </p> <p>3. No, I don't think it is weird at all, and I would probably do the same thing. If it is very diluted, I may let it go, especially if my kid would feel very left out and wasn't old enough to understand. But straight up juice I would definitely say no, just like I wouldn't want him eating a candy bar for snack every afternoon. It would make me question their other snack choices too... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/juice-at-daycare#post-1850983 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:27:43 +0000 fairy 1850983@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: Ah I see. I guess they have rules saying what each meal must contain? I still don't think it would be hard to accommodate your request for water :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/juice-at-daycare#post-1850982 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:27:31 +0000 lawbee11 1850982@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>1) Yes<br /> 2) Yes<br /> 3) No, I said the same thing. They asked if she could have juice with snack and I said I'd prefer that she have water. They seemed fine with it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/juice-at-daycare#post-1850981 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:26:34 +0000 tinyperson 1850981@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think you're weird at all! We've told our daycare not to give LO juice, but I think she's had it there a couple times. I don't know why they have to give juice either! We just do milk and water at home as well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/juice-at-daycare#post-1850980 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:26:19 +0000 looch 1850980@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think it's weird that you request no juice, I would do the same.</p> <p>My assumption is that you can send a water bottle, and they would fill it for your kid. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/juice-at-daycare#post-1850978 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:25:50 +0000 mediagirl 1850978@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@fairy: I think the only reason they do is to provide a fruit "item" with a meal. So, instead of doing fresh or canned fruit, they're substituting that with juice. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/juice-at-daycare#post-1850976 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:25:45 +0000 cmomma17 1850976@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This would bother me too, as we also do only milk and water at home. LO has never had juice. Our main concern is also cavities (and it's just unnecessary calories/sugar in my opinion) and my pediatrician is very anti-juice! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/juice-at-daycare#post-1850974 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:25:09 +0000 Bluebonnet 1850974@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>1) Yes<br /> 2) Yes<br /> 3) Not at all, we requested the same thing. I would rather LO eat whole foods not drink juice. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/juice-at-daycare#post-1850967 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:22:25 +0000 fairy 1850967@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO doesn't go to daycare, but I don't think it is weird at all for you to request no juice! I would, too. There is no reason that they need to be giving juice to the kids, and I'm sure their drs and dentists would agree :P They should just give water, imo. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/juice-at-daycare#post-1850961 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:19:45 +0000 mediagirl 1850961@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>1. Does your childcare center offer juice at snack times?<br /> 2. Is it acceptable to think the daycare could easily provide water instead of juice for a child if the parent requested that?<br /> 3. Do you think I'm weird for saying "no juice" for my child? </p> <p>In searching for other centers, I found one I liked but they offer juice at every single afternoon snack and also at most morning snack times. This seems excessive to me. We don't drink juice at home (our kiddo has only had milk and water) so I don't think she should have it at daycare, either. </p> <p>What are your thoughts? Do you think I'm a weird parent for telling daycare my kid doesn't drink juice? </p> <p>My main concern for no juice is cavities, in case you're wondering. :) </p>