my kids love to drink it out of those cool little water bottles...aquapod or the sesame street ones. course, that's my 2 and 4 year old, the 12 year old, i just have to tell him. something that helped was that i stopped making other things so readily available. the water is out and easy to grab and drink. but other things, well, sometimes we don't even have them. i also got some of those little powder mixes you can put in the water bottles to add flavor. try out propel and some of the flavored water capri-sun and minute maid have out, too. we found the flavors of those my oldest likes and i try to always have some of that around, instead of juice and cokes. honestly, i rarely buy juice boxes anymore...just the flavored water...and we don't have coke in the house. they can have it if we're out, but we just don't keep it at the house so it's always there and easy to get. the juice i buy in the big bottles so they have to actually pour a cup of it. they prefer to grab the waters that way. just have to find what works best for your kids.