How to Get Kids to Drink More Milk
It isn't always easy to encourage children to drink milk, but it's good for them. Therefore, try turning plain milk into chocolate milk to get kids to drink more milk. It has the same ingredients as milk, but the chocolate adds to the flavor and since they love chocolate, kids will be more likely to drink it. If your kids don't like chocolate try the other alternatives listed below. Does this Spark an idea?
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Buy milk and chocolate syrup--use semi-sweet or sweet chocolate in place of the syrup. Get hot chocolate mix and make it with milk instead of water. Let your kids help you in the choices; it will encourage them later to drink the milk.
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Select strawberry milk. If your kids don't like chocolate milk, make it strawberry. You can buy it in the store already made or you can make it yourself. Hershey's has a strawberry mix as well as a chocolate mix.
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Try buying goat's milk, lactose free, Silk milk or two percent milk. This will give your kids a variety of tastes and hopefully one of them will be the one that they enjoy. Once you have experimented, you'll know which one to buy in the future, so your kids will drink more milk.
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Give your kids milk to drink. Don't allow a choice. If you don't give them an alternative they will have to drink the milk.
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Heat the milk. If your kids are having trouble sleeping, make them a cup of hot milk. People say a glass of warm milk will help anyone sleep, so pour out a cup of milk and either put it in the microwave for a minute or heat it in a saucepan on your stove.
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Make a fruit drink with the milk. You can add bananas, strawberries, pears or another fruit to the milk to make a fruit drink that your child will enjoy. Using a blender will aid you in this.
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Tips & Warnings
You can also use a blender to mix your chocolate or strawberry milk.
Some children can't tolerate milk because they are lactose intolerant. For these children you have to go with the lactose free milk.
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shafikmansur
Jul 13, 2010
The only milk that children need to be drinking is their own mother's milk until they are weaned. Cows milk is specifically designed to grow calves, not humans. -
jmillar
Jul 11, 2010
How about figuring out that milk isn't really all that healthy, and stop pushing it one your kids! Not to mention the horrible way dairy cattle are treated. I suggest this: Show your kids the documentary Earthlings, and then base your diet on what they're still willing to eat.
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davemere
Mar 26, 2010
"Lactose intolerant"?? Ha ha ha! You're allergic to MILK?? Even babies can handle milk. Man up, you weakling.
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Jason Voigt
Jan 04, 2010
I drank milk every day before I went to school up until I was in college until I found out I was lactose-intolerant. I know drinking milk isn't the only reason, but I'm just saying. I'm sorry to disagree but drinking milk is not always good for you. I understand the message you are sending that milk is better than soda, but most people I know stick to water and fruit juice. Just my 2 cents
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waltzwithu
Dec 17, 2009
if your kids are overwieght(like most kids these days) do them a favor and just get rid of the milk. Trick them into eating leafy greens and broccoli. Usually mashed potatoes do the trick! You can slip all kinds of food into mashed potatoes
