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i drink mostly water so didn't have to change much about my drinking habits. oh wait i could have cut out wine and coffee but i didn't even consider it!

ETA: oh didn't see your specific question about sugared drinks when i wrote about the coffee and wine!

I used to drink an insane amount of Diet Peach Snapple but these days, we all just drink water together... or boricha/barley tea.

Not really.

I tell my kids that when they are older they can have caffeine (soda and coffee) ...oh and when they are 21 they can have beer like daddy

I mostly drink water. Don't need the extra calories. I occasionally drink a carbonated/caffeinated beverage for migraines... They call it "mama's medicine" and they think it tastes yucky.

We only have seltzer, milk, and beer in the fridge, so not too hard for us to limit her to milk and water. She has juice once or twice but didn't really like it, I think it was too sweet for her, even diluted. Not gonna complain about that!

No, I'm a sucker for coffee. I just tell my daughter "no, it's for grown ups only," and sometimes I say "we can pretend!" and do a little tea/coffee charade with her, but that's all. She's never whined to try/drink it. We don't really keep much juice/soda in the house but I do have some when I'm out at restaurants and it's the same thing.

We mostly drink water anyway. DS drinks milk, water, and watered down juice. Of our drinks that he's tried, he loves lemonade. He didn't like sprite when he tried it. He likes coffee - he'll lick the rim and say yum. I haven't let him try coke - I just tell him it's for mama.

I typically only drink water during the day
coffee and oj in the morning
occasionally a cup of hot or iced tea but i dont usually keep it in the house

I give J chocolate milk and diluted juice (he has no interest in water or regular milk, though I've tried to persuade him!) so I guess I'm not much of a stickler with sugary beverages anyway, but I would never change what I drink because of kids!

I do let him have sips of the juices I like (100% pomegranate or grapefruit). I don't let him try my coffee or pop, even though he's obsessed with the idea of pop (no idea why - I suspect DH has let him have a taste on the sly). I just say "No, this is mommy's drink." When not pregnant, clearly wine would fall into that category too

We both drink pop, and LO knows "oh you having pop" but never asks for any. And beer she knows is "daddy's and gross"

If anything, LO is taking after what I drink. I dilute lemonade...just a splash of lemonade and the rest water...just helps me to drink more. LO started wanting to drink from my glass, and he started requesting "memade" too. It's just a splash, so I don't mind. Prior to that, he drank straight water. He never drank milk outside of a bottle, and I never forced it.

We don't drink soda or juice often. It's very rarely in the house, so no, but I do drink flavored sparkling water and don't give it to LO. He calls it, "Mama's Water" and doesn't seem phased.

My husband and I drink a lot of things - soda, beer, wine, juices, etc. Our lo only drinks milk and water.

I was never a juice or soda drinker. I drink coffee & hot teas but my LO has been "ruined" & won't even touch milk or juice because she's so used to all the water we drink around here. I started eating clean and then mostly "primal" when we started LO on solids because I wanted to set a good example/have nothing in the house that I wouldn't want her to eat, so I imagine that if I had been a huge juice/soda drinker I probably would have cut back to be an example.

I've been terrible about Coca-Cola since I had LO, but I know I need to cut drinking it (and I try to avoid it when I'm around her) because she always wants to drink from my cups. I pretty much drink ice tea most of the time and if she's really insisting on it and I can't redirect, I'll let her have 1 or 2 sips only (no sugar). But I have been trying to drink plain water more often. No coffee or juice for me. We do say a firm No and explain beer and wine are for mommy or daddy only.

I only drink water and, occasionally seltzer. I rarely drink soda and we don't keep juice at home but we have apple sauce pouches which we give to DD as her "juice". She does her juice at school which I don't really like but don't want her to feel left out since she already brings her own lunch due to food allergies.

@bluestriped bee: I do think there is value in modeling for kids what you want them to do, but it is also perfectly appropriate to just tell your child no.

LO only has water, milk or homemade fruit and veggie smoothies. He's never shown too much interest in anything else besides talking about the fact that coffee (or anything in a mug) is hot and then he wants to touch the side of the mug to feel if it is. I think we were probably curb any soda intake once he's old enough to understand and try to have it when he's asleep but it definitely won't stop us completely. Sometimes there will just be things that are the way they are "because we said so".