Anonymous
Post 04/29/2024 17:05     Subject: Were we all constantly dehydrated?
This thread is making me thirsty!!
Anonymous
Post 04/29/2024 16:20     Subject: Were we all constantly dehydrated?
I swear it's the oldest grandmas that are the worst. My husband's grandmother (90) was told to drink more water and she struggles to get down like 24 oz a day and complains about having to use the restroom, why does she needs all this water, etc. My grandma was the same way before she passed. She survived on a cup of coffee here and there and maybe a glass of orange juice or punch with a meal. Maybe if it was really hot in the summer and you were outside you would have a glass of water.
Anonymous
Post 04/29/2024 16:08     Subject: Were we all constantly dehydrated?
I am a gen x kid and I remember always having bad headaches as a teen. I’m convinced it’s because I was not drinking enough water. But no one figured it out. I was given an aspirin and told to lie down. Even went to the doctor and he never asked me questions about diet or lifestyle. It was probably a simple solution.
Anonymous
Post 04/29/2024 16:01     Subject: Were we all constantly dehydrated?
I ran high school track in the late 90s, and we never had water at practices. I remember dying of thirst out there on hot days. No one even thought about bringing water, including the coaches. I do remember them cutting practices short due to heat. No one ever passed out!
Anonymous
Post 04/29/2024 14:33     Subject: Were we all constantly dehydrated?
My mother had a lifelong history of kidney stones and kidney disease. You better believe we were chugging water. we had all the sweet stuff too because it was the 70s but lots of water, especially as we got older. I barely drink so I even now.
Anonymous
Post 04/29/2024 14:31     Subject: Were we all constantly dehydrated?
Another gen xer here and I don't remember being thirsty as a kid, or even drinking water during sports practices. Maybe from the bubbler. In grade school, it was milk for every meal including the 6 oz carton at lunch. And the quick sips from the bubbler after recess.
Anonymous
Post 04/29/2024 14:18     Subject: Were we all constantly dehydrated?
Anonymous wrote:Our kids carry them around but do they actually drink it? My toddler will drink a lot at the end of meals but otherwise he's not that interested. Yet we still carry the dang bottle everywhere and try to convince him to drink it. I think we are all just projecting our own water needs onto our kids.


I think it’s person dependent. One of my kids wants a drink of water like once a day (and sometimes to stall bedtime) and doesn’t want anything with meals. The other will drink his whole water bottle and then ask for more in a two hour outing and always wants a full glass of milk with every meal. They eat the same diet and are only 1.5 years apart in age.
Anonymous
Post 04/29/2024 14:16     Subject: Re:Were we all constantly dehydrated?
Op - I guess it depends when you were growing up. I was born in the early 80s.
Anonymous
Post 04/29/2024 14:08     Subject: Re:Were we all constantly dehydrated?
So true. I don’t remember drinking a whole lot of anything outside of mealtimes TBH. Milk or water at meals, drinking fountain if thirsty at school (usually just after recess or PE). A glass of water around bedtime maybe.
Anonymous
Post 04/29/2024 13:54     Subject: Were we all constantly dehydrated?
I drank a lot of water growing up. I don’t know what the OP is talking about. I drank from the water fountain and a glass and even back in the 90s I remember having a refillable bottle for sports. My classmates drank a lot of bottled soda so they were also getting hydration all day long.
Anonymous
Post 04/29/2024 13:25     Subject: Were we all constantly dehydrated?
I'm from Miami and we did drink a lot of water when I was a kid. In fact, coaches would monitor your water intake because it was so dangerous. There were always a few kids who would pass out, or worse die in the local high schools. We had MASSIVE water bottles (120oz I think?) and even still we wouldn't pee all day during summer practices.

We drank from the fountains between every class too. I don't remember kids having reusable water bottles at lunch, just 1-2 capri suns or sunny d'lite.
Anonymous
Post 04/29/2024 13:19     Subject: Were we all constantly dehydrated?
Anonymous wrote:I grew up in the 1960's in Bowie.

I attended Tulip Grove Elementary.

We drank from water fountains. No one carried water or any other beverages.

If you worked at a steel mill or construction you might have carried coffee in your lunch pail.

Kids ate three meals a day with no snacks. Kids were not overweight. You maybe had one kid in the classroom who was 10 pounds over weight.

Food was a costly part of the family budget. Kids were not allowed to eat in cars. Kids ate at the kitchen table or dinner table for meals. Kids were not allowed to eat on couches.

I remember visiting (touring) downtown DC in the summer heat. Everyone drank from water fountains when they were thirsty. No one carried around any liquids.


By the 80s, food turned to processed junk. Lots of Kool-aid, crystal light, nesquick, sunny D to drink. Various junky snacks. While there wasn’t as much fast casual take out, dinner was often canned soup casserole concoctions, Hamburger helper, Shaken
N bake, Sloppy joes, canned vegetables, ice burg lettance salads with bacon bits and hidden valley ranch
Anonymous
Post 04/29/2024 13:15     Subject: Were we all constantly dehydrated?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Does anyone remember those tiny drinks that were in the plastic grenades? Every school field day every kid would get one.


Oof, yes. Water, high fructose corn syrup, and artificial food coloring. They didn't even taste good.


Except back then it was actual sugar from sugar cane, and not high fructose corn syrup.
Anonymous
Post 04/29/2024 12:22     Subject: Were we all constantly dehydrated?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I remember being thirsty all the time as a kid, especially in summer. In school, we could get water from the fountain when we went to the bathroom and then would take trips there and I remember being super thirsty but we were each only allowed 5 seconds (understandable because otherwise it would take all day!) But I went to all day summer camps that’s were mostly outside and would occasionally get tiny Dixie cups of water from those big Gatorade jugs. But I was so so hot and thirsty and always wanted more! Why weren’t water bottles a thing back then??



Why didn't you ask for more? As soon as class started, I'd get a bathroom pass and then drink at the fountain for 5 min.


I am like the PP who was always thirsty because I didn’t want to rock the boat or be different or difficult.
Anonymous
Post 04/29/2024 12:18     Subject: Were we all constantly dehydrated?
Our kids carry them around but do they actually drink it? My toddler will drink a lot at the end of meals but otherwise he's not that interested. Yet we still carry the dang bottle everywhere and try to convince him to drink it. I think we are all just projecting our own water needs onto our kids.