If you want your kids to suffer a lower risk of obesity, one of the major things to remember is to stick with low carb drinks, low sugar drinks that won’t equal out to tons of liquid calories.  This sets them up for future bad habits, and it adds to obesity now.  Frankly, as healthy as those pedialyte drinks may seem, they are a classic example of what not to give your kids.  Likewise, stay away from juices unless they are actually 100% juice.  Most juices are maybe 10% juice and the rest of it is sugar.  Instead, you can try water for example. 

Water is obviously great, and if you make your own juice or just look for 100% juice at the store, that is definitely an option.  Some also use strawberry dacquiris as an occasional treat.  Likewise, you can try sweet tea.  Sweet tea doesn’t have the caffeine of many other iced teas, and yet it still has that taste and low amounts of sugar at most.  It can be found in most grocery stores along with various restaurants, and quite frankly this is one of your best choices in some ways.  Either way, you want to stay away from the sugar laden drinks and help your kids to learn early on about much better options.  Soda is definitely not a good option by the way.