Comments on: Never Clean a Sippy Cup Again

By: Heather

Heather — Sun, 01 May 2011 05:32:54 +0000

As someone just under their thirties who had a mother that used sippy cups as a kid I can assure you they existed

By: Bethany

Bethany — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:44:11 +0000

My kids all gave up the bottle around 6-7 months old. Problem was that I moved them from a bottle to a sippy cup. I currently have a 2 yr old (as of saturday), 3 and 4 year old. The 4 year old will drink from whatever. He’s been off a sippy for a long time. The baby uses a sippy in bed at night. I want to rid him of this habit. My biggest issue is my 3 year old. He is addicted to the sippy for all intents and purposes. It isn’t so much the drinking as it is the chewing on the spout. He never took a pacifier but, found comfort in the cup spout. It’s time for him and the 2 year old to give up the cup at night. My 3 year old is 99% potty trained. No need to take in liquid in the night.

Any advice is greatly appreciated!!!

By: Handy Man, Crafty Woman

Handy Man, Crafty Woman — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 04:56:58 +0000

Our son learned how to drink from a cup before age 1. He saw us doing it, and he wanted to do it. We even taught him to drink from a straw; people were amazed! Love the photo of the baby with a shot glass, lol. They can learn very young to drink from a small cup or glass. .-= Handy Man, Crafty Woman´s last blog post ..Beer Bread Recipe =-.

By: Mom of 2 under 2

Mom of 2 under 2 — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:15:02 +0000

aNGIE, that is such a huge problem with ‘old school’ advice. That happened to me with my second baby in the hospital (after a homebirth with my first). I had just got out of the delivery room, settled down to sleep, and since it was 3 hours since my baby had done a 2-hour nursing marathon, the nurse woke me and told me to nurse her. Far different from my midwives’ advice with my first; they said the baby will wake up when its hungry (as long as its not bunny wrapped too snug).

By: kristen

kristen — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 03:02:09 +0000

we use little cups just like that from ikea. my little one is 18 months...tupperware has a great little cup set too (that comes with a tiny pitcher) if you want plastic. .-= kristen´s last blog post ..Garlic Broccoli & friends =-.

By: Kelsey

Kelsey — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 03:45:54 +0000

I love the shot glass idea! And the pictures of your babies are so cute. I love the name Lane.
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By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:45:36 +0000

I love the idea, however, we live in a small home and do not have a dining table (we eat at our coffee table in the living room), so I am a little shy about using open cups with my son. However he is almost 3, so I guess I need to “bite the bullet” and start with them. I have several shot glass sized tupperware cups that should be perfect.

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:36:17 +0000

You are the smartest girl I know. .-= Amy´s last blog post ..Simple Elegance =-.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:21:49 +0000

I'm a nurse and when I worked in the nursery we would feed breastfed babies out of little medicine cups to avoid nipple confusion (in a situation where mom was temp. unable to breastfeed). If a newborn can drink from a cup a toddler certainly can. .-= Carrie´s last blog post ..Exciting Day For Me! =-.

By: Amber

Amber — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:55:22 +0000

Our daughter is 6 months and we are starting to help her drink from a cup. I’m looking into getting a little cup for her to use but for now we give her sips out of our cup. She loves to “pretend” to drink because she watches us drink from cups and feels proud when we let her try. We’re the same way with beverages only at the table so we’re not worried about things getting spilled. I never saw the point of letting a kid drag their sippy around the house; always drove me crazy while babysitting. I’ve also baby sat 1 too many toddler juice addicts. I don’t really see the point of juice nutrition-wise so I’m going to attempt to give my daughter either water or milk with jucie very rarely until she’s like 3 years old. She’ll eat plenty of fruit without juice and won’t have the added sugars either and then hopefully I won’t have to deal with the kid banging on the refrigerator demanding: doosh? doosh? for juice. I watched a 1 year old who went after juice like it was crack and threw a tantrum if his mom didn’t let him have it. Yikes.

Using real cups and real silverware is a very “montessori” thing to do.