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.
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. 
pear / 1693 posts
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.
pear / 1599 posts
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.
wonderful grape / 20453 posts
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
eggplant / 11716 posts
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.
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.
papaya / 10560 posts
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.
nectarine / 2994 posts
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.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
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!
nectarine / 2973 posts
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.
nectarine / 2521 posts
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! 
cantaloupe / 6692 posts
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.
grapefruit / 4418 posts
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.
kiwi / 557 posts
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.
grapefruit / 4085 posts
@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 .
papaya / 10343 posts
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.
honeydew / 7303 posts
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
grapefruit / 4800 posts
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.
pomelo / 5093 posts
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.
coconut / 8079 posts
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.
cantaloupe / 6669 posts
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!
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.
Maybe I need to set a better example!!!
eggplant / 11287 posts
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.
ETA: my 3-year old has had her own Izze quite a few times.
pineapple / 12053 posts
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.
bananas / 9118 posts
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.
watermelon / 14206 posts
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.
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
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.
wonderful clementine / 24134 posts
I think its harder when there are older siblings around.
nectarine / 2878 posts
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 
watermelon / 14467 posts
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.
olive / 58 posts
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.
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