Sippy cups

[coliebird]

My daughter is 3. She drinks from a regular cup at the table, but if she is in the living room and wants a drink, it goes in a sippy cup. I'd rather not have milk spilled all over my carpet (it's happened a couple of times when I tried to give her a regular cup).

 

[Hillbeans]

My son is 4 and still uses a sippy cup. I don't really see any problem with it, and he does know how to use a regular cup and uses one at dinner most nights.

He's always thirsty, and likes to travel with his drink, so I figure this is the less messy way to do that. Perhaps it's a bit of laziness on my end, but so be it.

 

[pyrxtc]

I have always stopped at age 2. By then my kids were pretty good at drinking from a regular cup and old enough to understand that drinks are at the table, not everywhere.

 

[skuttle]

DS turned 2 in July. He hasn't used a sippy cup in months. We use cups with lids and straws.

 

[paigevz]

Just wanted to say, they are linking sippy and straw cups with some speech issues now. As if we all needed something else to be paranoid about! But they are saying that it uses different muscles and tongue thrust than regular cups and CAN cause problems in some children with excessive use.

"They" also recommend your child not have drinks other than water at times other than established meals and snacks. Contributes to obesity is the thinking.

Not preaching, just discussing!

We stopped at age 2.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

I forgot which poster said this, but IMO a 6 year old has no business using a sippy cup unless they have some sort of disability.

 

[skiwee1]

I forgot which poster said this, but IMO a 6 year old has no business using a sippy cup unless they have some sort of disability.

DD loves drinking her chocolate milk out of a sippy cup and she has no disability! Her ped and dentist have no problem with it so why should you? One drink a day out of a sippy cup is no big deal IMO.

 

[dcgrumpy]

DS4 uses a regular cup most of the time. If he's watching tv in the living room or we're going out somewhere he uses a straw sippy. DD2 uses a sippy most of the time, she uses a regular cup at the table with meals

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Sorry I offended, but I just think it's LONG past time to have given that up. It's like parents who still give their kids pacifiers when they are 5 years old.

 

[skiwee1]

Sorry I offended, but I just think it's LONG past time to have given that up. It's like parents who still give their kids pacifiers when they are 5 years old.

She likes a cup of chocolate milk when she wakes in the morning. She lays in bed like a princess and drinks her milk while watching her show. She doesn't do it for pacifying reasons and I think there is a huge difference between bottles and pacifiers and sippy cups.

 

[Aidensmom]

Sorry I offended, but I just think it's LONG past time to have given that up. It's like parents who still give their kids pacifiers when they are 5 years old.

Do you drink your McDonald's sodas with a lid and a straw?

 

[LindsayDunn228]

I believe there is a big difference between a sippy cup and drinking from a straw. Once again, only my opinion. No need to get your panties in a wad.

 

[kidshop]

Do you drink your McDonald's sodas with a lid and a straw?

Good point!

My ds6 using a regular cup or a regular cup with a straw (sometimes a straw and lid, sometimes just a straw) at the table. That's for milk, allowed only at meals and at the table. For water, he uses a regular cup he gets himself or in the car and at night it is a sippy (good old playtex) or a sport type bottle to prevent spills.

Ds2 uses the disposable sippy cups for milk (at the table) and regular sippys for water. He can and does use a regular cup, but sippys make more sense in the car or to use when we are out or not in the kitchen.

 

[skiwee1]

I believe there is a big difference between a sippy cup and drinking from a straw. Once again, only my opinion. No need to get your panties in a wad.

DD's sippy cup has a straw that sucks it out from the bottom and has a lid. There is really no difference then a normal cup and straw with a lid except that hers has a cute design on it.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Oh brother. You people kill me.

My experience with sippy cups they have never had a straw, just a lid with a spigot-thingy on them. Forgive me for being behind the times.

I also think the average 6 year old should be able to drink from a regular cup without making a mess.

 

[Miss Jasmine]

Oh brother. You people kill me.

My experience with sippy cups they have never had a straw, just a lid with a spigot-thingy on them. Forgive me for being behind the times.

I also think the average 6 year old should be able to drink from a regular cup without making a mess.

I guess you never spill drinks?

We make the kids keep their drinks in the kitchen and they are 12 and 13 because we can't trust them not to make a mess.

 

[skiwee1]

Oh brother. You people kill me.

My experience with sippy cups they have never had a straw, just a lid with a spigot-thingy on them. Forgive me for being behind the times.

I also think the average 6 year old should be able to drink from a regular cup without making a mess.

DD can drink from a cup without a mess and does 99% of the time. She just happens to think her chocolate milk tastes better out of her sippy cup. My DS, now 17, felt the same way and always drank his milk out of a sippy cup until around the age of 7. No biggie. I can't imagine having a time limit for sippy cups. For goodness sakes that is so ridiculous! LOL!

 

[Auggietina]

My 8 year old uses a water bottle, which is really the same thing as a sippy cup (spouty thing that you have to suck on to get the liquid out)when she is in the car or wants to take a drink in her room. In fact she needs to bring one for water at school. They only allow her to drink from a water bottle if she wants water in class.

 

[Blueeyes101817]

Oh brother. You people kill me.

My experience with sippy cups they have never had a straw, just a lid with a spigot-thingy on them. Forgive me for being behind the times.

I also think the average 6 year old should be able to drink from a regular cup without making a mess.

the little boy i babysit was 6--his younger brother was 2...they would get sippy cups if i was taking them in the car---and they BOTH could drink out of regular cups without making a mess...i never even thought about thsi as being "abnormal" and do not see a problem with it

 

[bananiem]

Jenn Lynn, different kids' hand-eye coordination matures at different ages. Does she still tip over her glass on a regular basis when reaching for it? If yes, then I'd wait. If she doesn't go ahead and try it without a lid at lunch and just put half a cup of liquid in at first (so when it does tip you don't have as much to clean up! )
Good luck!