I picked Aria up from daycare yesterday and I found her drinking her sippy...more like chugging her sippy! I was curious what she was drinking because I have rarely seen her chugging water like that. So I opened the cup and smelled juice.
When we first started at the daycare, I had no idea that they give the kids juice at both snacks during the day. Aria had never had juice before (other than the occasional prune juice to get things moving). I just prefer her to drink only water and milk. She doesn't need juice for numerous reasons. So, after finding out that she had juice the first day, I asked them just to give her water instead. We've been marking on her sippy "No Juice" as a back up. Yesterday we forgot to mark her sippy and one of the new ladies didn't know Aria wasn't a "juice drinker". I asked them politely to make a note of it somewhere incase we forget again. (Another reason I'm looking forward to starting at the new school in July...these people don’t listen to my requests! It might be little, but it’s important to me.)
When we got home on her first day (after Aria was juicing all day) we went immediately outside to play. She was a little crazy kid running up and down the sidewalk (definitely more crazy than the usual crazy). Yesterday was the same. On the way home she was constantly giggling in the car all hopped up on sugar. By the time I started dinner and we went out to play, Kevin made it home to witness the sugar low. She was tantrumming like she never had before! It was bad. She is a totally different toddler when she has juice. No juice for you! ...atleast for now
Good juice articles:
http://pediatrics.about.com/cs/nutrition/a/fruit_juice.htm
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=46165
http://www.herbalremediesinfo.com/juice.html
http://www.juicyjuice.com/articles/ArticleDetails.aspx?ArticleId=65FAF6B5-41C0-4293-8CBA-71B79F8493D6
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3 comments:
interesting. i wonder if they're giving them juice that has added sugar? we buy exclusively all natural juice around here - it's definitely addictive...and i totally agree about water and milk being the options...better yet, water over milk too whenever possible.
sigh...what can ya do? just keep voicing what you want and hopefully the new school will get it right!
I was just saying to my hubby that I don't see any reason to start her on juice, and he asked why wouldn't we. Thanks for the links, so I can have research to back up my feelings. :-)
Good luck with the daycare listening to you. It's never just easy.
Nice post about juice - I completely agree. When starting solids a lot of the literature recommended apple juice about this time. My instinct was that it wasn't necessary. Now I feel even stronger about it. Sorry to hear that the daycare isn't cooperating.
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