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<blockquote data-quote="Praecepta" data-source="post: 701461" data-attributes="member: 20025"><p>I feel it is best for kids to grow up drinking water/milk mostly. Avoid sugar to get them used to living without it - their teeth will thank them later in life!</p><p></p><p>And so far as caffeine, that is a drug. And I feel it is best kids learn to live their life without using any sort of drugs. For example they may like coffee to help the get up and get started in the morning. I feel it is best they learn to do this without the aid of caffeine. Then once they have learned to do things "on their own", they won't "need" these drugs, rather it is an addition to their lives, not something necessary.</p><p></p><p>This can come in handy later if they want to save some money and just drink water for a while. Coffee and soda pop can get to be expensive. If they can live without it, then this would be easy for them to do.</p><p></p><p>With that said, I have an adult friend with ADHD and caffeine has the opposite effect on him. It calms him down. He can even drink it before bedtime and it will make him sleep better! So with that I would say use your judgement. Maybe better sometimes to give a kid coffee for medical reasons?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Praecepta, post: 701461, member: 20025"] I feel it is best for kids to grow up drinking water/milk mostly. Avoid sugar to get them used to living without it - their teeth will thank them later in life! And so far as caffeine, that is a drug. And I feel it is best kids learn to live their life without using any sort of drugs. For example they may like coffee to help the get up and get started in the morning. I feel it is best they learn to do this without the aid of caffeine. Then once they have learned to do things "on their own", they won't "need" these drugs, rather it is an addition to their lives, not something necessary. This can come in handy later if they want to save some money and just drink water for a while. Coffee and soda pop can get to be expensive. If they can live without it, then this would be easy for them to do. With that said, I have an adult friend with ADHD and caffeine has the opposite effect on him. It calms him down. He can even drink it before bedtime and it will make him sleep better! So with that I would say use your judgement. Maybe better sometimes to give a kid coffee for medical reasons? [/QUOTE]
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