https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 18 May 2026 08:21:38 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2232548 Fri, 10 Jul 2015 08:28:49 +0000 changingtides 2232548@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Haven't yet and don't really have any plans to. I guess we'll just see as she get older. At a little over 2, she only has milk and water. She had a couple sips of lemonade when we were visiting her great-grandparents, but no other juice yet either. We don't keep soda or juice in the house, though. I'm not necessarily opposed to her having any juice at this point, but we just don't drink it so I've seen no reason to. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2232531 Fri, 10 Jul 2015 08:18:33 +0000 avivoca 2232531@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't know, probably when she's in school. As it is, we don't really keep it in the house and we don't give her sips of ours when we are out. I would be okay with her having an Izze pop since it's basically sparkling fruit juice. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2232530 Fri, 10 Jul 2015 08:18:03 +0000 lilyann 2232530@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS1 has stolen my drink a couple of times (he's almost 3) and he makes the funniest face and tells me that it is hot/yucky. lol :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2232528 Fri, 10 Jul 2015 08:14:51 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2232528@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think its harder when there are older siblings around. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2232522 Fri, 10 Jul 2015 08:09:56 +0000 looch 2232522@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband likes carbonated beverages, so my son sees it regularly. He's tried it out of curiosity and he thinks it tickles, so he doesn't drink it. My son has food issues though, so if he wants to try something, we let him, as he normally refuses new things. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2232377 Fri, 10 Jul 2015 04:05:54 +0000 Dandelion 2232377@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>D is almost 8 and I hardly ever give him soda. Maybe twice a year. He gets it at his dad's house and sometimes with grandparents. Out effects him too much. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2232356 Fri, 10 Jul 2015 01:38:07 +0000 lemondrop 2232356@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Occasionally we'll let him have a root beer at a brewery we visit, but they make their own and it's really good! Most of the time we don't have soda around. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2232341 Fri, 10 Jul 2015 00:06:16 +0000 birdofafeather 2232341@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>traditional sodas? not yet at 2.5, but she's had sips of our sparkling waters/lemonades because i love it and she loves "sparkles" we're not really traditional soda drinkers, so we don't even have any in the house. i have a soda stream though for making up sparkling water. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2232331 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 23:37:46 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 2232331@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both of my kids have stolen sips of my soda but never had their own. They're 3 and 19 months. I am sure it will be quite a few years before I let them have their own soda, but I don't think it hurts for them to snag a sip here and there for the time being.</p> <p>ETA: my 3-year old has had her own Izze quite a few times. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2232324 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 23:17:04 +0000 daniellemybelle 2232324@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I drink a lot of Diet Coke so she has snagged my can and gotten a taste before I can wrestle it away from her!</p> <p>As others have said, I don't know that I will ever order her a soda or provide it to her. I'll be that mom that when she is a teenager and tries to order a Coke, I'll tell the water that she's having water. :) </p> <p>Maybe I need to set a better example!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2232247 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 21:32:09 +0000 jhd 2232247@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He has had a sip of coke and didn't like it. I will avoid it as long as possible, but I'm not going to stress if he has a little at special occasions etc. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2232139 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 19:41:52 +0000 sarac 2232139@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't drink soda, and she's rarely around people who do, so it mostly hasn't come up. While I'm really nuts about not teaching her that drinking sugar water is the norm, I also don't want to make it this exciting, forbidden thing. So she's probably had some sips here and there to taste, which is fine. I'm mostly just glad it never comes up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2232135 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 19:40:44 +0000 Maysprout 2232135@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't drink it so not sure when, she's four now and I don't think has tried any. We do have a soda stream, my husband grew up drinking carbonated water so we have that with dinner sometimes. LO has tried that and not liked the fizz. We do let them have juice, I try to avoid the fake juice drinks but I know they've had them at get togethers. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2232133 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 19:39:07 +0000 yellowbird 2232133@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I honestly don't foresee a time that I will give her a soda willingly. She'll probably drink it at friends houses or something when she's older </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2232131 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 19:38:28 +0000 Mae 2232131@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't keep soda in the house so I don't think we'll ever give it to her. I assume at some point she'll go to a friend's house and have it there. I do give juice at full strength though! I didn't think I would and I resisted but we were having chronic constipation issues and it is the only thing worked. I tried watering it down at first but she refused to drink it so... is what it is. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2232126 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 19:36:49 +0000 fancyfunction 2232126@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@catomd00: that's all M gets as well. We never have soda in the house so I'm hoping it's years before she tries a taste . </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2232122 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 19:35:51 +0000 clover 2232122@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>School aged at the minimum. I do drink it occasionally but I started pouring it in cups when DS started to notice the shiny can. He has never gotten a sip but he has managed to grab DH's ice tea which he made a gross face at but tried to drink some more. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2232094 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 19:15:13 +0000 catomd00 2232094@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Never if I can help it! We don't even give juice. She gets water and a little milk (no more than 8oz a day) if she asks for it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2232091 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 19:14:04 +0000 artsyfartsy 2232091@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He's had a few sips for fun but I won't ever just give him a can or cup of pop to drink. We don't keep it at home and I don't want to get him in the habit of drinking it a lot. That was a hard addiction to break for me. I grew up drinking it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2232088 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 19:13:12 +0000 Tanjowen 2232088@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>None yet (19 months) but he grabbed my iced coffee the other day and was slurping it down before I wrestled it away from him! :shocked: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2232082 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 19:09:42 +0000 Purpledaisy 2232082@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She had her first sips a couple of weeks ago. She's almost 2.5. We don't have soda at home. I don't have a problem with her having sips here and there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2232069 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 18:57:55 +0000 mrsjyw 2232069@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're not soda drinkers so we rarely have any in the house! We're ok w juice, but he probably won't ever try soda with us until school age! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2232061 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 18:54:02 +0000 MrsStar 2232061@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She's almost 3 and has had a few sips, she won't be allowed it for a few years yet, and even then only as a treat. She doesn't like juice so she sticks to water or milk. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2232055 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 18:49:51 +0000 matador84 2232055@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't drink it so kids prob won't have it often and haven't yet. We do have friends who let their 2, 3, 4 year olds have their own cans. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2232052 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 18:47:43 +0000 Anagram 2232052@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't ever have soda in the house, and we don't really drink it out, so it will be a LOOOOONG time before LO has an entire cup or can.</p> <p>But a few times in my pregnancy, I have mixed sprite with juice when I'm feeling sick, and I've let her had a sip or two. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2232048 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 18:45:43 +0000 blackbird 2232048@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She's had a little here and there-I drank those San Pelligrino sodas a ton while pregnant, so it was inevitable she had some here and there. She's more excited about DH's Gatorades :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2232012 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 18:15:23 +0000 pinkb 2232012@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She has gotten a hold of a couple sips at 2.5. She thinks it gross, so I am going to keep telling her it is and that its Daddies coffee. The longer the better for us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2232003 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 18:07:08 +0000 JessKas 2232003@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO is almost two and we've let her have a few sips of a root beer float a few times, but I wouldn't give her a soda of her own until she was at least six. And only a really small cup then. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-let-your-lo-have-soda#post-2221081 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 17:45:00 +0000 Boogs 2221081@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just like the title says, when did you start allowing your LO to have soda? I'm asking because I was out to dinner with a group the other day and I was surprised to see one child with a cup of soda and another with a can. </p> <p>Just curious because my 4 year old hasn't had any soda, and as it is I water down juices for him lol. So I'm just curious what the norm is. :) </p>