No pop:until 12 yrs.

[Crankin]

There was soda in the house when I was growing up, but it was reserved for lunch/sandwiches on the weekends, or as a drink, maybe after school. We never had soda served with dinner. I drank water. I do remember hanging out and drinking Coke and eating fries as a teen, though!
I do not have soda in my house, unless you count seltzer. My kids had it at restaurants or other's houses. One drinks it and one does not, as adults.
Once in awhile I have a Diet Coke, but it has been less and less often as the years go by.

[sarahspins]

We don't keep soda in the house at all... but I don't restrict the kids from having some if they're offered it. Sure, it's not a healthy every day thing, but like ice cream, once in a while is just fine We don't generally keep juice in the house either - nutritionally it's so much better to just eat the whole fruit.

We ALWAYS had soda in the house growing up... but even then I don't remember drinking much of it until college when I got hooked on Mountain Dew.. but soon after I discovered coffee.. and I rarely drink soda any more

[shootingstar]

My addiction is tea at home. With milk, no sugar
Coffee --outside of home. So oddly, I see coffee as 'special'. Nice dark coffee with milk, no sugar. Suddenly one day on campus when I was 21, I decided to not to put sugar in coffee. That was it. No real analysis of anything. And to this day, can't explain it...especially when I do eat dessert.


It's more of cost-saving thing for me for nearly...past 30 yrs.

I recall having Chinese green tea at parties..probably as young as 9. Usually those teacups at Chinese restaurants are small. For orange pekoe tea/similar at home, I was often asked by mother to prepare a pot of tea for everyone. Which meant 1 teabag in a pot of water ..for 8 people. Then added milk in whole pot. So everything was diluted in the end.

[Chile Pepper]

Of all the things I have to worry about while raising my two boys, the occasional can of soda is not very high on the list. I don't drink sodas at all. My kids understand that artificial sweeteners are toxic, so they never drink light sodas even when offered at someone else's house. But regular sodas are fine. I usually buy a six-pack for the weekends. Today I just bought two. We eat well for the most part. We eat very little processed food--almost nothing, really, other than the weekend sodas. So I can't get on board with trying to take away yet another treat. As they say, most things are fine in moderation.