No pop:until 12 yrs.

[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.