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    toothpetardHamilton Nolan
    3/11/15 12:22pm

    But what's the best possible brand of water to rely on?

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      The Ghost of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ AKA BabyStepstoothpetard
      3/11/15 12:23pm

      I know. Confusion reigns! SIGH

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      InternetDoctorMDtoothpetard
      3/11/15 12:24pm

      The one that comes from the tap and you pay a nominal amount for every month.

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    twinsmommyHamilton Nolan
    3/11/15 12:23pm

    The first thing the dentist told me when I took my 2 year olds in for their first appointment was that it was obvious they didn't drink juice or use a pacifier. I was shocked, they only don't drink juice because they're content with water and milk not any high and mighty amazing parenting from me. I thought it was interesting that at just 2 years old those things were obvious by looking! Though, most of the kids I know that drink juice at 2 years old do it to help them poop. So many constipated toddlers out there.

    Thank god they can't tell how much tv your kid watches just by looking at them though...

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      benjaminallovertwinsmommy
      3/11/15 12:32pm

      You may be mixing up juice with "fruit drinks", which the manufacturers wholly intend. Juice is directly from fruit, and it's nutritious and very expensive when it's actually all juice and not sweetened to the hilt with sugar. "Fruit drinks" are made from corn syrup and have never even heard of fruit. 2 year olds with visibly rotten teeth or "Mountain Dew mouth" have been fed fruit drinks, and it should really go without saying that's a really bad idea.

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      DR honkhonkhonk, tyvmbenjaminallover
      3/11/15 12:39pm

      /faintly more nutritious sugar water directly from fruit that will still rot your teeth

      ftfy

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    cheerful_exgirlfriendHamilton Nolan
    3/11/15 12:39pm

    The California school lunch rules mean that kids can choose juice, chocolate milk or regular milk themselves but they must ask for water and we (the lunchroom volunteers) are not supposed to put the water out with the other drinks. It makes me crazy and I ignore this rule.

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      amyceecheerful_exgirlfriend
      3/11/15 12:48pm

      That's horrible! Except if you're a lobbyist for the dairy industry, in which case, that's incredible!

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      cheerful_exgirlfriendamycee
      3/11/15 12:51pm

      Oh yeah, I use it as a teaching example for the kids who help me in the lunchroom. It's a fun volunteer gig because I get to interact with lots of kids and I'm not supervised. (also free lunch)

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    TraceHamilton Nolan
    3/11/15 12:29pm

    Related story time: Recently my sister's nursery came to her ~concerned~ my niece (who is a year and a half) was drinking too much water, because unlike other parents, my sister doesn't really let her drink juice often (and never at the nursery) and the (special formula) milk she still drinks is only during breakfast and dinner. She told her kid's doctor who was kind of like 'wtf' when she called her, concerned that she was doing something wrong. Unsurprisingly, the doctor said she was completely fine and getting everything she needs with the diet she (very happily eats) has.

    So I am not entirely surprised parents have no idea what they're doing sometimes because people who should know better are even spreading weird, false information.

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      kamla deviTrace
      3/11/15 12:37pm

      I have gotten a lot of judgement and shit from my in-laws, other parents, and my own parents about the fact that I refuse to feed my son juice. For whatever reason, to large swaths of Americans, juice is considered a vital part of a child's diet, when all it does is give the kid an early sugar addiction and leads to childhood obesity.

      JUST WAIT UNTIL THEY FIND OUT I INTEND TO NEVER TAKE HIM TO GET A HAPPY MEAL.

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      cathygaleTrace
      3/11/15 1:11pm

      Related to related story time: I have a clear memory as a child of being at a doctor appointment, I think I had a cold or flu or something, and after the check up and my grandmother (who had taken me to the appointment) and the doctor spoke briefly outside the room. Then the doctor came back in and told me how important it was for me to eat my hamburgers. Not to pick at them like I tended to do, or just eat the bun and the lettuce like I preferred, but to eat all of the hamburger every time because a growing girl needs all those nutrients. He said he is a doctor so he should know, and he made me promise to him right there that I would eat my hamburgers from now on. My grandmother reminded me of this promise that I made to "the very smart doctor" for a long time afterwards.

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    kamla deviHamilton Nolan
    3/11/15 12:28pm

    Thank you for posting. Every person I come across acts like I am some kind of hell-hound wildebeast child-abuser when I tell them that my two year old has never drank juice and will not drink juice so long as I can fucking help it.

    He drinks water. And organic whole milk.

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      WhyAmIInThisHandbasketAndWhereAreWeGoingkamla devi
      3/11/15 12:42pm

      Hallelujah! None of our three kids - ages 13, 5, and just turned 2 - drink juice. It's either water, almond milk (the youngest has milk-gut issues), or 2% cowmilk.

      We get stares all the time, as well as the questions, "What?! Your kids can't have juice? You don't buy chocolate milk? Have you ever let them have soda?"

      Water. Water is life.

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      amyceekamla devi
      3/11/15 12:48pm

      They don't know what you're not giving them! It's great!

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    SteveShartsHamilton Nolan
    3/11/15 12:23pm

    You mean that stuff that's in the toilet???? NO WAY!!

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      NRB628SteveSharts
      3/11/15 12:31pm

      But what about electrolytes?

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      Brock SamsonSteveSharts
      3/11/15 1:33pm

      It doesn't even have electrolytes!

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    Rom RombertsHamilton Nolan
    3/11/15 12:23pm

    If I've learned anything from parents it's that the joy of parenting is all about giving in to each and every demand your terrorist offspring make of you so that you can have just a few moments of pristine silence before returning to the hurricane of chaos that is parenthood.

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      Consider PhlebitisRom Romberts
      3/11/15 12:28pm

      I'm often tempted to tell my 9-year-old, "Fine, here are the car keys. Just give me a few moments of peace."

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      dothedewRom Romberts
      3/11/15 12:38pm

      Saw a woman on the street today with a boy of 5 or 6 yrs old, holding his hand while walking through NYC, with headphones on her head bopping to her music while the boy walked in silence. Point is, some parents (I sorta hope she was just his babysitter) manage to find pristine silence even among the hurricane of chaos.

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    ThrumbolioHamilton Nolan
    3/11/15 12:23pm

    There's this thing that exists in certain places outside of the U.S.

    ...shit, what's it...::SNAPS FINGERS:: Oh, yep! Yep, it's "moderation."

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      kamla deviThrumbolio
      3/11/15 12:29pm

      Moderation for 90% of the non-water drinking products marketed to children should translate to "never."

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      martypantsThrumbolio
      3/11/15 12:36pm

      That's a bad commie word. America's unofficial slogan: Consuming everything all the time because we can. Fuck yeah!

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    benjaminalloverHamilton Nolan
    3/11/15 12:24pm

    Oh man. We should have never stopped teaching home economics in school. Sure, STEM prepares kids for jobs of the 21st century bla bla bla, but now it appears not only to be possible but overwhelmingly common to be a grown adult without an iota of basic nutritional knowledge, or shopping/cooking/planning skills. That's a huge problem.

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      toothpetardbenjaminallover
      3/11/15 12:29pm

      Also: drinking water kills jobs.

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      Cyber Mind Grrltoothpetard
      3/11/15 12:37pm

      And is also for effete liberals.

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    asdasdasdadHamilton Nolan
    3/11/15 12:26pm

    Hamilton, you are easily the worst writer at Gawker. Please be less insufferable.

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      halfemptyhoneyjarasdasdasdad
      3/11/15 12:45pm

      Tut tut, the writing's great. It's the unfortunately necessary message that galls.

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      SeanLEOasdasdasdad
      3/11/15 12:46pm

      But he knows it and so I'm fine with him.

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