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I drink Izze, so I might let him have a sip or two of that, eventually. Definitely no regular soda in the house, though. DH and I both do drink it from time to time, now. I guess we'll have to quit that soon!
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Ha. Pretty much never. We don't drink pop at all. It's nasty to us and sooo bad for us!
We know he'll be given it at parties and whatnot so I try not to fret but I hope to raise him with the knowledge of how bad it is! Ice cream once in awhile I'm okay with but pop is so nasty to me!
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Hmm...maybe sips at 3 or 4? Whenever he's old enough to ask for it. We don't keep it in the house and rarely order it out, but I'm sure it'll come into his life somehow. I was raised in a house with very little junk food and my parents were rather preachy about bad foods, but I think it backfired because my sister and I went crazy when we went to friends' houses and college. I want to raise my kids with a more balanced attitude towards food - all things in moderation etc.
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I just don't worry about this much because we don't keep it in the house. He hasn't yet had it at almost 15 months and I know I won't be the one who offers but tiny bits here or there, as he is older at occasions outside our home seem like no big deal.
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my only rule with the grandparents is "please, you can give her anything you want to eat but soda". I just want to avoid it as long as possible. At home we do drink sparkling water and sometimes my 2 yro will have a sip of that. We were at a speciality cafe a few months ago and I got one of their house made fruit sodas (very mild) and I did let her have a sip of that vanilla soda. Though let her is used loosely as she got to it before I could stop it.
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We have a soda stream, my husband uses it mainly for carbonated water and coke zero, so we do have it in the house.
It's like everything else, if he wants to taste it, I will let him try it. The more I try to withhold things, the more he seems to want them.
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I don't get why a sip of all-natural or cane sugar soda is so much worse and more taboo than a bite of cake or pie or ice cream? They are all sugary and none of them are technically good for you but what's the harm as a treat every once in a while? Obviously I get the high fructose corn syrup (gross) and aspartame (gross) concerns, but as far as giving tastes of things to kids, isn't sugar is sugar is sugar?
For example, we dont drink soda. But recently, we had root beer floats at a get-together at our house. We bought this delicious all-natural root beer made with cane sugar and ginger to make the floats. Why is giving LO a taste of that worse than giving a taste of ice cream?
People say they don't want LO to have a sip of soda til she's 10, but will give her cake on her first birthday. I don't get it.
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We don't keep soda at home. I don't drink it, period. Sometimes my husband orders a diet coke. I'm not too worried about our kid getting exposed to soda at a young age because opportunities will be sparse at best.
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