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When i waited tables, I poured many a diet coke and root beer into a sippy cup and baby bottle. Mine will have a little here and there, but neither DH nor I drink much soda. It's just not good for them. I'd rather them just have water when they are small. It'll be a rare thing.

We don't plan on letting them have it for a long time. But I can't say never. My nephew drinks Mountain Dew, and has for years...he's 6! His teeth are so bad. DH and I rarely have pop, it's rarely in the house, so unless we are out somewhere they won't really have the opportunity to have it. And when we go to restaurants we usually order water

My MIL and BIL gave LO straw tastes of Coke at a baby shower!

I'm not sure when they can have real drinks of soda...maybe at special occasions around 6? 8?

Probably never in our home. Dh and I don't drink it.

In my house growing up, soda was for the parents and the kids drank milk, except at restaurants (not sure when that started). Soda was definitely a treat back then. I will do the same for my kids, except maybe water in addition. If he has a sip here and there when he's at the sippy cup stage it won't bother me, but we will not be filling up sippies or bottles with soda. And none earlier than that. Maybe around 7 or 8 he can have it at restaurants?

I remember being as young as 4 years old (kindergarten, I guess) where my parents would hand my brother and I one can of Coke (or whatever) and between the two of us we did, "You pour, I choose." - one of us had the job of splitting it as equally as possible and the other person got to choose which one to take. Fond memories!

Anyway, pop/soda was never banned in our home and I remember being allowed to have some every now and then...

I suspect my kids won't be having any from us until they're in grade school but because I love it so much I don't see myself banning it entirely. Special occasions?

I was thinking about this today, because inevitably they are going to be exposed to it at a party. They'll never get it at home, but I can't stop what happens out of my care, so I try not to worry about it.

I have let my son try soda a few times when he is very insistent. He hates it and just spits it out or makes a funny face. Not enough to worry about yet. When he was vomiting this week, the doctor recommended flat classic coke.

Not at home. I don't drink it. She had a sip of Sprite recently b/c it was all there was to drink at the birthday party. Yeah...good thing I come prepared.lol

As long as I can put it off. We went to Qdoba today and got him his own kid's meal (a cheese quesadilla and side of pinto beans) and were offered a choice of juice, soda or milk (nope, nope, and has no interest).

We almost never have it at the house (it's one of the things I love that I mostly gave up in a quest to get fit) so when he gets it it'll be at a party or something.

She can have some at parties/events when she's older (5-6). We drink sparkling water in our house and LO loves it...she calls it "soft drink" and likes to take a sip here and there.

I'm actually really relaxed about food, but I just can't with soda. We rarely drink it and I'm a huge proponent of not drinking your calories, so I'd prefer him not to drink it except at parties once he's in elementary school.

I refuse to fetishize soda and candy and all of these 'bad' things. So, when we eat them, she (23 months) is allowed to try a bite. We just don't keep them in the house, don't order them in restaurants, don't really hang out with people who consume them much. She's very rarely exposed to them. But when she is, she's been allowed to taste. I don't want to make them a forbidden, coveted thing. There's nothing at this point that she isn't allowed to try - we just don't serve her the bad stuff.

@PrincessBaby: Ahhhh...stuff like that drives me crazy! My parents do the same thing.

I don't know when I will let my LO have soda. It doesn't concern me too much. We rarely had soda in our house growing up and rarely have it now. A couple sips of soda at a young age at a party doesn't concern me. Daily healthy habits are most important.

I agree with @sarac: I want my kids to have healthy relationships with food and drinks, so I don't want to "fetishize" junk food. Soda isn't for daily drinking, but it's nice to enjoy one once awhile without guilt. I don't want my kids to feel the need to binge on soda when I'm not around because they're for forbidden to have it at home.

Same as my parents, school age and only on special occasions like birthday parties, Christmas or school fetes.

@Lindsay05: Yes! I've been with my parents for 10 days and they do so much that drives me crazy! My mom had been preparing meats for the grill (and was a few 7&7s deep) and STUCK HER FINGER IN H'S MOUTH to see if she could feel for teeth! I almost died and I bit her head off. She swore she washed her hands but I don't know...They drive me nuts with her!

W has had a sip of root beer. I don't think it's the end of the world.

That being said, we don't have pop in our house so I'm sure she won't have it often
But I'm not gonna be a nazi about it.

Hopefully never. It was basically put in my bottle as a child and I had a torturous month about a year ago when I finally quit the stuff.

I still like to have one occasionally, and that's only when I will let my children have it. We don't keep it in the house and won't.

@runsyellowlites: DS did the same to me for his first taste!
We don't keep it in the house and if we get one outside DH & I split one.