Sippy cups

[Rachie0507]

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!

I'm with you. DD will be 5 tomorrow and gets her early morning sippy everyday. It is not the spout kind but has a ridge on one side with holes just like a sippy. It is supposed to be a transition type cup. If the worst habit she has is wanting her morning drink from a sippy, I'm happy with that. She gets open cups the rest of the day. I truly don't think she has any ill-effects from it. She speaks very clearly and is on the small side (and I let her drink juice!!).

 

[mickeyboat]

My DD's are almost 5 and almost 6, and they still use sippy cups (which I use to refer to spill proof cups of any type) when they are wandering around the house or in the car. At meal times they use regular / open cups. They do fine with them.

Denae

 

[tiggersmom2]

I think most parents will agree that a 6 year old with a sippy cup is well with in normal limits.

 

[Betsyt82]

The kids in my house were done with the sippy type cups by 5ish...I say five-ish because the last one got the boot after DD was 5. Every time the kids forgot to return the cups and they got yucky I pitched them. There was no way I was going to go and get a new batch of them so they learned that if they wanted them they had to bring them back for washing......Needless to say they were gone soon . If they want to drink they need to be in the kitchen and that's is it. I know a mean Mom but... it saves having to clean the carpet from accidents. They both have water bottles in their rooms next to the beds for those need a night time drink(they are sports bottles).

 

[dismom9761]

My kids stopped using sippy cups between 2 and 3 yrs old.Mostly after 2 it was for the car.At 2 yrs old they knew to stay in the kitchen with their drink.I found that they were just walking around sipping on it for comfort rather than thirst.

 

[Castlebound]

My kids never used a traditional sippy cup. They stopped using bottles at around 12 months and went straight to regular cups. They had already started drinking with help from regular cups at around 8 or 9 months, so they needed very little help drinking from a cup by 12 months. We did use spill proof straw cups in the car until they were each around 4 y/o. I thought a traditional sippy cup was used to help kids transition from the bottle to a regular cup, and that it was suppose to be a short term thing. I wouldn't say anything but I would do a doubletake if a saw a kindergartener or 1st grader with a sippy cup.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

DD still uses cups with lids. When did you stop giving your child(ren) cups with lids? I was thinking today that maybe I should stop giving them to her at meal times. She is 4 now after all.

I still do and they are 5 and almost-3.

We do practice with cups--but I like the don't have to watch them part of sippys.

 

[Aneille]

My kids never used a traditional sippy cup. They stopped using bottles at around 12 months and went straight to regular cups. They had already started drinking with help from regular cups at around 8 or 9 months, so they needed very little help drinking from a cup by 12 months.

I think for most people its not that kids can't use a regular cup but its the ease of sippy cups. My kids like yours practice using regular cups while under 1 year of age but still now use sippy cups at 3.5 and 2. Not because they can't use a regular cup without spilling all over themselves but because they like to have their water or juice with them in the family room while playing.

We don't have a rule about drinks only in the kitchen, just food has to be in the kitchen and even that is lenient. But I don't want spilled drinks. And its not about hand eye coordination either with the spilled drinks, its about them putting them down and playing around them, forgetting they are there and then accidently knocking it over. At the table during dinner with a regular cup they hardly, hardly spill.

So I guess really my rule is if they drink leaves the kitchen it usually has to have a cover of some sort. Sometimes I do allow non-covered drinks but that is rare and usually one of the kids asks for it specifically.

 

[va32h]

I think most parents will agree that a 6 year old with a sippy cup is well with in normal limits

Well actually, I do disagree - I would never allow my 6 year old to continue using a sippy cup. I think that sippy cups are supposed to be a transition from bottle or breast to cup - not a convenience so that I never have to worry about spills or tell my kids they can't bring a drink into the living room.

But this is one of those subjects that it isn't really productive to argue about - someone else's kid using a sippy cup isn't going to affect me any - so I won't lose any sleep over it. But if asked for my opinion, I'd say that six is too old.

Sure, I drink out of a straw at McDonald's or Steak & Shake, but not at the table - and I'd like my kids to learn table manners that are appropriate at places that don't have playgrounds.

I don't let my kids take food and drinks into other rooms, because I just think it's a bad habit (for all ages) to always feel like you have to have a drink or snack with you.

 

[JVL1018]

DD, now 6, still uses sippy cups along with regular cups. She prefers her chocolate milk in a sippy cup.

Same here. My kids are 3 and 5 and they both get chocolate milk every morning and night in sippy cups-never a regular cup.

DD never ever uses a sippy cup otherwise, DS always asks for a top(the clear ones that go with the Tupperware cups), but does drink out of a regular cup when the tops are dirty or we are somewhere else.

 

[Bob Slydell]

Same as most folks here. DS4 uses a sippy cup from time to time, usually when he's taking a drink somewhere away from the table. At the table and most other places, he drinks from a regular cup.

 

[fanofmickey]

I work at a preschool. Two year olds are supposed to bring their sippy cup with whatever drink mom would like them to have in it. Three year olds and up drink water out of regular cups with snack - no sippies allowed.

 

[Twinkles6892]

I still use sippy cups on occassion, but just for milk and apple juice

 

[coliebird]

I don't let my kids take food and drinks into other rooms, because I just think it's a bad habit (for all ages) to always feel like you have to have a drink or snack with you.

Not to argue with you, but do you never get thirsty when you are watching tv or something? Sometimes my daughter will be watching a video and ask for a drink so I let her have one, but I put it in a sippy so if it does get accidentally knocked over, there will be no mess. Again, my daughter is only 3 so I'm not sure if she'll still be using one at 6.

 

[WNDMom]

My twin DS(2) use sippy cups, and occasionally my DS(5) uses them too. He occasionally fixes his own drink in a sippy cup, when he doesn't want his brothers to spill it. Otherwise, he drinks from a regular cup.

Sarah

 

[diznygirl]

My kids could never figure out how to work the sippy cups - it's just soo much easier to use a straw. DD never even used a bottle (darn her!) She went straight from BF to straw. And they use covered cups with straws around the house and in the car. They are perfectly capable of drinking from regular cups and they do this frequently. I just have never thought about it before this. "Straw Cups" are different from "Sippy Cups" but sounds weird, ya know?

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

DS's pedi said we're supposed to let him 'practice' using cups w/o lids, but every time I give him one, he turns the drink upside down over his head!

We're also supposed to be letting him 'practice' with a spoon/fork. But he just uses that to fling food further than he could do with his own two hands.

TOV

 

[disykat]

My kids drank out of regular cups, but that didn't stop them from using the sippy lids from time to time until they were around kindergarten age. At meals they got regular cups, but at snacks I'd sometimes ask them if they wanted the lid - or even require it if they were having a special snack on a tv tray. Like others, my kids sometimes liked chocolate milk in them - mainly because I used the lids to shake the drink mix into the milk and I'd ask if they wanted it on or off. They never used the "spill proof" cups, so were never allowed to carry drinks around.

Heck, my kids are 10 and 12 and they STILL drink out of the little tupperware cups sometimes, I just have the lids put away. I would be surprised to see 4 - 6 year olds carrying around the spill proof cups like a security bottle, but those sippy lids that go on the Tupperware wouldn't surprise me.

 

[Aidensmom]

I still use sippy cups on occassion, but just for milk and apple juice

Is that just until you transition to this?

 

[va32h]

Not to argue with you, but do you never get thirsty when you are watching tv or something?

Of course I do - but I just get up and go in the kitchen and get a drink. That's what commercials are for!