Would you give a 3 year old root beer? - Page 5

[mammal_mama]

Originally Posted by 4evermom

And I bet she is 100% cuter than when I do it every morning!

Well, she is pretty cute to me -- but I'll bet there are people who see you the same way!

[vegiemum]

wouldn't do it. we have made soda to be as bad as beer or wine (or something not to be drunk until you're a grown up and can make a good decision on your own) so NO SODA. try a sparkling fruit juice instead

[Kristine233]

Wouldn't bother me at all.

If I'm worried about what my kids eat, I bring my own. DS had a very strict diet for a long time, we'd just bring our own alternatives "just in case". I get that parents feed thier kids differently and I feel that is thier right. But I wont bend over backwards for someone who doesn't like my choices either, just like I never expect people to bend for me as well.

Even now, when we go places you can often find me shoving approved snacks and drinks into my purse.

[Tigerchild]

Eh, if you're already going to have ice cream and soda there, I might let the kids try a teeny float for fun. (you can do it with any soda, not just root beer. Personally, I prefer Dr Pepper or Coke floats, I'm not a big root beer girl.) Certainly, YOU should indulge if you want one or it might be a fun thing to offer to the adults, and then if any kid wished to try one, offer them a kid sized one.

We eat healthy and local. Soda is bottled a long ways away and generally is made by an evil multinational corp. Call it my irreverent side, but you know, for a once a year occasion a teeny bit of evil can be delicious. that's just me though, do whatever you like for your own family.

[macca]

Originally Posted by mammal_mama

I'm glad I'm not the only one! My 3yo likes my coffee, so I warm up milk for her, and add a small amount of coffee and sugar.

Some mornings she wakes up saying, "I need my coffee!"

That's so cute!

[Norasmomma]

A 12 oz can of soda, not even...a tiny taste of a float or a soda for a small treat, I think that would be alright.

[Kristine233]

Thanks to you I had to get get vanilla ice cream and rootbeer for floats tonight. I had a mad craving for them after reading this thread, lol.

[4evermom]

Originally Posted by Kristine233

Thanks to you I had to get get vanilla ice cream and rootbeer for cloats tonight. I had a mad craving for them after reading this thread, lol.

I had a beer float the other night because of this thread. Had the beer and had the ice cream!

[odenata]

Originally Posted by Tigerchild

We eat healthy and local. Soda is bottled a long ways away and generally is made by an evil multinational corp. Call it my irreverent side, but you know, for a once a year occasion a teeny bit of evil can be delicious. that's just me though, do whatever you like for your own family.

Root beer is probably the biggest exception to this! Lots of root beers are microbrews, essentially (and you can make your own). In the Pacific NW there are lots of local root beers.

[aprons_and_acorns]

I would let my 3 yo have root beer.

[ollineeba]

mmmm.. eating one now. Thanks a lot!

[StrawberryFields]

I haven't read all 5+ pages but in response to the OP, my almost 3 year old ds can have root beer for very special occasions (State Fair, big family picnic on a hot summer day, etc.) but only if it is made with sugar and not HFCS. That's the stuff memories are made of, you know? Running through the sprinkler on a hot day, dad standing at the grill flipping burgers. Watermelon juice dripping down your chin and washing it all down with an ice cold root beer. Just seems like the ultimate childhood experience to me!

[Rio Mama]

If you give a kid a root beer, he's going to ask for a straw. When you give him the straw, he'll probably want to blow the paper off. When he blows the paper off, it'll probably fly into someone's cake. He'll probably want a taste. After he eats the cake, he'll be thirsty, and then he'll ask for a rootbeer (b/c it's like crack... I'm addicted anyway...)

[mammal_mama]

Originally Posted by Rio Mama

If you give a kid a root beer, he's going to ask for a straw. When you give him the straw, he'll probably want to blow the paper off. When he blows the paper off, it'll probably fly into someone's cake. He'll probably want a taste. After he eats the cake, he'll be thirsty, and then he'll ask for a rootbeer (b/c it's like crack... I'm addicted anyway...)

[leerypolyp]

I wanted you to know that I ran an informal experiment on my own child, age not-quite-three, in which I subjected her to a root beer float made with Virgil's (microbrew) root beer and organic vanilla ice cream.

I tested the mixture on myself and my husband as well.

Results indicate that the combination was more than satisfactory. :

[mamabohl]

Originally Posted by ann_of_loxley

I make a wicked chocolate vegan cake everyone always loves!

so...could you share the recipe? My son's 4th bday is coming up soon and many of the guests will have alergies.....

[aaronsmom]

Originally Posted by vegiemum

wouldn't do it. we have made soda to be as bad as beer or wine (or something not to be drunk until you're a grown up and can make a good decision on your own) so NO SODA. try a sparkling fruit juice instead

I really don't understand this. You can't become intoxicated from a root beer.
To the OP, yes I would let my son taste some root beer at a birthday party. But not too much as he's already bouncing off the walls as it is.

[milkybean]

At 3 my son hadn't had any sort of soda.

At 3 we discovered that he has a serious problem with corn syrup, corn syrup solids, and high fructose corn syrup. That started a solid year of figuring out where all those things were hiding!

At some point between 3 and 4 we realized hubby has a problem with it too, and he found that his beloved Thomas Kemper root beer was made with HFCS. Off limits.

A couple months ago, I read the back of the TK rootbeer bottle, and it's now made with cane sugar/juice. There was much rejoicing!

And now, at just over 4, DS has had a little bit of Thomas Kemper root beer, and adores it.


Since you're in the UK, your sodas are very likely to NOT be sweetened with HFCS. In that case, I'm more OK with a 3 year old having it. And it will probably be really inexpensive (compared to if it were adults), b/c they will drink so little of it.