coffee, tea, softdrinks and juice

[workin'mumof2]

do you dab/dip your finger in these drinks if your son/daughter wants a taste?

why/why not (if you want to share)

poll coming

[pinkishbunny]

do you dab/dip your finger in these drinks if your son/daughter wants a taste?

why/why not (if you want to share)

poll coming



My 5 year old drink's Tea... first tasted it when he was about 15 months..i dont give them coffee unless its the iced coffee, and they both have softdrink...not all the time..otherwise its just cordial

[sweetsugardumplin']

It really depends :)

Anything with caffiene (tea, coffee) then no.

Herbal tea, yes, infact both my kids love chamomille tea.

We only have soft drinks occasionally and only lemonade without preservatives, so DS has 1/3 lemonade and the rest soda water as a special treat (probably once a month)

We don't do juice either, so really we are pretty boring at our house................but when it comes to food, that's another story :rolleyes:

[Kayangel]

coffee, tea, - NO :no: i wouldnt, they are for grown up, NOT children.

soft drink- ekkk its full of sugar.

Juice- is fine, in little amounts.

[~Temet Nosce~]

When dd is old enough to ask me for a taste, yes I would dip my finger. It would only be the tinyest amount anyway. Chances are they won't like coffee etc. anyway, I thought it was feral first time I tried it lol.

[Lillynix]

I voted 'other'.

DD is allowed herbal teas/infusions as they are naturally caffiene free and have different health properties depending on the herb (peppermint good for tummy, chamomile good for relaxing etc). Black and green teas, no. They contain caffiene and no one we knows drinks them anyway.

Coffee, I drink water decaffinated coffee and while I don't condone it or let her, DD has snuck the last dribble from my cup, but being decaff I don't freak out, if it were caff, NO WAY!

Juice, not in this household and same goes for softdrink, both are and will be big no-no's for a long time! Full of sugar with NO nutritional benefits.

[NibbleCurlynBub]

Coffee and soft drinks are a complete no.

However I will give Jayden the last sip of a cup of tea occasionally (I rarely drink it anyway unless they are both in bed) and juice is a sometimes thing and is always diluted.

Hasn't been a problem here. :)

[Seacretsquirrel]

DD has "Tea" hot water milk and the teabag dunked once so she sees it, no coffee (except the foam off the top of a cap) and If I really feel like a softdrink she gets her own in a glass (which is mainly water with a tiny splash - usually I drink pepsi max so just enough to give it a tiny bit of colour)
A bit naughty but at least what she is getting is mostly water and she is happy rather than a big fight over a tiny splash.

[~Temet Nosce~]

I don't see what the problem is with dipping your finger in a drink like softdrink etc.?
We aren't talking about giving them a whole cup, the OP said dipping a finger for a taste.

[~Candy~]

Coffee...nope..to them it's for grown ups, same as alcohol. Anything else if fine for a tatse/treat. Oh, all the kids have a cuppa tea every morning.

[Cath82]

DS and DD love tea, but I would never give them coffee. (Makes me crazy enough as it is! :D)
At one party we went to, the child's mum gave DS a cup of lemonade. As it was a special occasion, DS was allowed to have the lemonade. DS broke out in severe hives and I asked what sort of lemonade it was - it was Diet Lemonade and DS had suffered an allergic reaction (I had rarely ever given him any type of soft drink before, let alone a diet one). I was so scared and upset, and since that day I always closely watch everything that is served (food and drink) at kids parties.
I would prefer him to have water or a MILO instead.

[pinkgingham]

meh, my kids have soft drinks in their cups on occasion. i wont give them coffee or coke. but they have had tea. they only have it every now and then. mostly they have juice.

[Benji]

DS has had chamomile tea when he's had a cold, and occasionally I let him have [watered down] juice as a treat but apart from that, he loves water anyway.

He's never had soft drink, although I think he's had the last sip of my tea when I wasn't looking in the past :rolleyes:

[confusd]

coffee is a no no for me.
my sister has given her some ice coffee, which i was annoyed about.

soft drink she has on the odd occasion. we dont have soft drink often but when we do she usually has a little sip. she doesnt like the bubbles though. but she always begs for a sip

she has watered down juice pretty much everyday, and also she has sips of our cups of tea (its decaf)



I would prefer him to have water or a MILO instead.

i put a teaspoon of milo in DD's bottle once and she looked at me as if id poisoned it :confused: i thought she would like it

[~Mands~]

It is interesting reading how different everyone is :).

My DS has only ever had tea at the in laws, mil made him a 'milky tea' in a tea cup, so mainly milk, with a splash of tea from the pot (they dont use tea bags). I think he has had it twice. We only see them every now and then, and they like to make DS feel special, I dont see the harm, I think it is sweet.

At home, he doesn't have soft drink or cordial at all (has tried my mineral water, and hated the fizziness anyway). He can have one diluted juice a day, although sometimes when I go to get him a juice he has a tantrum sooking for water :confused: weird child.

[MrsMiggins]

My two are pretty content with touching the side of my coffee mug (I let them touch it once as they were trying to grab hold of it & I wanted to teach them that it was hot. Now they have to give it a quick touch every time I have one! :rolleyes:)

My DH & I have cola and the kids know that is a mummy & daddy drink - not for them. (Although doesn't stop DS trying it on for a sip every now & then!! But no, he doesn't get one!) We rarely have other soft drink, but if we do, they're not allowed to have that either. I think DD may have had lemonade once.

I don't allow my kids to have a sip of my juice if I have one, I'll get them their own diluted one to drink.

The only reason I say no is because I know what my two are like - give them an inch & they'll take a mile! In our case, I wouldn't let them have "just a taste" because then they'd think they could do it all the time & it would cause tantrums when they discovered they couldn't! I don't see a problem with other parents letting their kids have a try though.

One exception - I often will have a glass of wine with dinner & when DD was younger, she was constantly at me for a sip of it. One night she climbed up on the chair beside me and nearly pulled the glass over, so I told her she could have a sip (don't all jump on me just yet!!)

I knew as soon as it came near her, she wouldn't want it, but just wanted to let her know it was something she wouldn't like so that we could put an end to it. I held the glass up to her mouth, the smell of it hit her and she screwed her face up and pushed the glass away! "Mummy!! That's yucky!!!" :laughing: For months afterwards, whenever she saw me have a sip of wine, she'd yell "No Mummy!! Don't drink that!! It's YUCKY!!!!" :laughing: At least that stopped her asking for some!!

[Cath82]

He can have one diluted juice a day, although sometimes when I go to get him a juice he has a tantrum sooking for water :confused: weird child.
Lol! My DS must be a weird child too! Seriously, he has only done it once or twice; but I have offered him a popper before and he has rejected it straight away; preferring to have the water!
Do you think that at these young ages; children; just as us adults; know instinctively when they are truly thirsty (for water), and soft drink, milk, juice, etc, simply will not quench that thirst? :confused:

[~Temet Nosce~]

i put a teaspoon of milo in DD's bottle once and she looked at me as if id poisoned it :confused: i thought she would like it
lol, my dd tried some milo once while at my parents house, and she had the same reaction. :confused:

[mumof3cuties]

Juice, not in this household and same goes for softdrink, both are and will be big no-no's for a long time! Full of sugar with NO nutritional benefits.
juice still have plenty of nutritional benefits, sure it lack the fibre that the whole piece of fruit has, but its still full of essential vitamins.

[Cazza82]

I would dab my finger into my drink and give DS a taste. I dont think anything is wrong with a dab....I wouldnt think they would get a sugar or caffine hit from it.

[Myztiks#1Fan]

well i dont drink coffee so that wont happen in this house unless my parents are here and coop dont even get a little taste then. i do buy juice but its the baby juice i buy coop. he mainly has water now though and maybe juice once a week.

i wouldnt give him soft drink as of yet. i mite have a coke but he always has his water in his special cup

[sam's mum]

DD1 has juice, occasionally soft drink (she doesn't like it :yelclap:), no tea, no coffee.

DS has had juice about 5 times and has recently got a taste for apple juice, which we water down about 50/50. the other stuff, no way. he has milk or water.

DD2 water or breast milk. that's it.

I don't like setting them up to think that food and drink are rewards or treats, good or bad. there are things that they don't have, things that they have sometimes (cookies are a sometimes food :laughing:) and things that they have a lot.

[headoverfeet]

I supose I voted wrong if you count the home made juice blends we make that Connor drinks (selection of fresh fruit thrown in the blender then liquified). Other then that, the occasional mouthful of mummies/daddies milk he just has water or BM. I would be pritty p!$$ed if someone gave him anything else.

[Lillynix]

I don't see what the problem is with dipping your finger in a drink like softdrink etc.?
We aren't talking about giving them a whole cup, the OP said dipping a finger for a taste.

Because with my DD, if I did it once, she'd want another and another and another and she'd want it everytime someone had that drink...and if she was refused, there'd be mega tantrums. Frankly, it's easier to avoid the tantrums by not doing it.

[hayleysmummy]

Yep DD always gets the froth off the top of my mocha, she loves it

[danik]

Definitely nothing with caffiene.

And no softdrinks yet.

Sometimes she has juice but only a bit and then we add water to it.

She drinks heaps of water and that's the way we want to keep it for the time being. She's not really missing out on much anyways.

There is one thing we do that she loves. When I have a coffee I make a frothy milk for her and she loves eating the froth with a spoon. It's like a "treat" yet still healthy.

[Nowhere]

no to all mikibut in saying that DD dont want it anyway

[~Bec~]

James has had 2 tastes of milkshakes to date.

If I drink tea of coffee it's no where close enough for him to touch and if we're out he would be given his water which he is happy enough with.

He's only had watered down juice twice in his life. He eats plenty of fruit and water so I figure he doesn't need juice. He's happy enough with water. (I made some ice-poles out of juice today though and he shared one with me.)

I don't drink soft drinks but James wouldn't get any if I did. :no:

[squiglet]

I had to pick other.
It's a big no for Coffee, tea and softdrinks.
I do give DD watered down juice (apple, apricot) though.