I am another water as the main liquid, I serve milk with one meal/snack if the child wants it ~ but most of children once they get about 18 months start to just choose water and self wean off milk here and opt to just eat their meals.

We refer to water as 'natures juice' here so the children do not really realize that they are being 'deprived' of juice in the program

Over the course of my career I have just seen too many children with rotten teeth from 'juice rot' as dentist calls it .... they graze on juice all day long in sippy cups and their teeth constantly have that layer of sugar on them and sadly it rots not only their baby teeth but starts to impact their adult teeth as well ~ just not worth it to me.