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Step 1
Get flavored milk. Buy strawberry or chocolate flavored milk, or mix your own chocolate milk. Blend milk, yogurt and any fruits to make a milk smoothie.
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Step 2
Take a trip to a dairy farm. Show your toddler or younger child where milk comes from. Get them involved hands-on as much as possible. Feed the cows and possibly even help milk one.
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Step 3
Have your child pick a recipe from a family recipe book or kid's cookbook. Pick a recipe he likes that includes milk such as ice cream, cookies or cup cake recipes that call for milk. Let him pour the milk into the dish.
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Step 4
Limit the options and cut back the juice and other sugary-drinks. If they're not available at snack or meal times, your child may change her mind and give milk a taste.
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Step 5
Keep offering milk often, even if the child refuses to drink it. It takes up to at least 14 opportunities for a child to consider accepting certain beverages and foods. If possible, remind her of the time when they did like certain foods that she enjoys now.
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Step 6
Buy cereal straws. They provide your child with essential vitamins and let them have fun drinking milk with the edible straw as well.
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Step 7
Make drinking milk fun by giving her a colorful silly swirl straw with breakfast cereal. Many kids like cereal-milk because it tastes better than plain milk in a cup. She may enjoy tipping the bowl up to drink as well.
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Step 8
Try using character cups from his favorite cartoon, movie or kid's programming. Select special bottles just for milk consumption. The incentive may be enough to push even a milk hater into trying it now and then.
