This is very timely for us because I do need to start getting DS to drink from an open cup. I know he can, but he likes to pour, so for right now, we're still using sippy cups, but the ones without straws. He also doesn't really like the cups with straws, so I keep offering those, with water. The utensils battle is hilarious for us because he'll only eat with utensils. He will not pick up any food with his hands. He can't really spear things on forks, but he's mastered the spoon, and he doesn't even use the overhand grip. He grasps it with his first three fingers.
Instead of having "answers" on a math test, they should just call them "impressions," and if you got a different "impression," so what, can't we all be brothers?
Mine are capable of using an open cup (have been for over a year!) However, once they take a few sips they tend to make a mess dumping it out, dipping their hands in, etc. so we usually only do water, and just a tiny bit. They will take most sippy or sport top bottles with silicone spouts. They can do cups with regular straws (like the take and toss ones) but they HATE straw sippies.
I am so embarrassed reading this thread! I am mortified to say they turned two in March and still get a nighttime bottle. Once their molars finally finish coming through I am planning on weaning them off. We have just had such terrible sleepers. I am enjoying FINALLY having them go to sleep in their beds and sleep through the night. I just can't deal with changing it up until I have a little more sleep again.
Oh, Looch- I think early intervention told me that using a spoon is actually harder for them than using a fork so that is great that he's mastered that at his age!
DD (4.5) started using open cups at 18 months at daycare. From then on we started using them at home. Mostly at the table, but progressed to having it on the coffee table (we have hardwood so spills don't bother me - and she drinks water 90% of the time) If she plays(when younger) it would be taken up and put on the counter and she could ask for it.
We always kept some sippys (take and toss) for things like a drink in her room at night, toss is the bag when going out or visitors. And now DD2 (11 months) is starting to use them (we never had valved cups so no gross accumulations)
DD2 (11 months) is starting to use a regular cup when in her highchair (about 1/2 inch of water). I think learning it is half the fun and it is hard to grasp and only practice helps! My nieces (5.5 and 3) aren't allowed to use an open cup because they spill.... but they haven't learned to use them well enough because they spill.... see the cycle!?!
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Gia: Don't be embarrassed! My good friend's 2.5 year old still gets a bottle before bed, and he's perfectly well adjusted and drinks out of an open cup regularly during the day. DD gets a sippy cup of milk before bed, and really, it's not like a bottle and sippy cup are that different anyway!
My kids transitioned to open cups at the dinner table around 2/3 (3 for my older and 2 for my younger). Their friends (age 4 and up) also get open cups at dinner. When water gets spilled, they are responsible for cleaning up the mess. We help to ensure it is all picked up. But given that the spills are due to general carelessness most of the time it is on them to clean and it has been since they were in their late 3's.
During the day, they either use bottle with squirt tops (sigg bottle or a similar bottle). My kids do not drink milk at all. They have water in there 99% of the time. I put the water in squirt style cups so they can carry them all over the house, just like I do.
I kept the few sippies that we used for both kids. Given that they are 18 months apart, there was overlap in their use anyhow. We did not care for sippies in general though. We preferred straw cups early on and then the squirt bottles for the reason lilgeek mentioned. I saw that cycle with my nieces.
All 3 of my kids (5.5 and 3.5) use open cups at the table for water and have for a long time, maybe since they were 2? However, every single day we have the water spilt, usually because it is knocked over by an arm or a placemat being shoved around or for some other reason, they don't spill when they're actually drinking the water. My kids still use sippies for milk and it bothers me. We don't do milk at meals - they have milk when they first wake up and then as a mid morning snack and then with afternoon snack. The snacks are at the table, so the milk could be in open cups (they tend to walk around with their morning milk) but my 3.5 yo twins just won't drink milk unless it is in a sippy. They say it tastes different and have meltdowns if i try to serve it in an open cup. Of course that means my 5.5 yo wants it in a sippy because her brother and sister have it. I know I just need to have the sippy fairy come one night and take them all away!
Gia: Don't be embarrassed! My good friend's 2.5 year old still gets a bottle before bed, and he's perfectly well adjusted and drinks out of an open cup regularly during the day. DD gets a sippy cup of milk before bed, and really, it's not like a bottle and sippy cup are that different anyway!
I agree - we were still giving my DSS a sippy cup of milk when he was 4 - right before he started kindergarten. He would lay on the couch to drink it so he treated it exactly the same as a bottle -we had to tell him that when he started school he would not be able to have teh sippy cup anymore...otherwise I think he'd still be drinking from one now -he's 13! If the bedtime bottle is helping them to go to sleep in their own beds I think it's fine -certainly no different from giving a binkie at bedtime like I do with my 2.5 year old!
-we had to tell him that when he started school he would not be able to have teh sippy cup anymore...otherwise I think he'd still be drinking from one now -he's 13!
So funny that you say this...last year we had a kindergartener at our school whose mother sent him to school with a sippy cup in his backpack. The teacher and aide in the class looked at each other like, "Who does that?!" LOL
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