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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
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Real cups?
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DD uses straw sippy cups, and I hadn't even considered changing that any time soon. Yesterday though DH left a glass on the floor by accident with a couple inches of water in it. DD picked it up gently with both hands, and carefully walked over to me so I could help her drink it.
I feel like if we did real cups at this point we'd end up with countless messes still, but as careful as she was, I think she may be ready to switch earlier rather than later. When do you guys plan on doing it, or have made the switch?
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Re: Real cups?
We've thought about getting some of those little cups (like rinse your mouth at the dentist size) for Ella to practice, since the amount if it got spilled would be minimal.
Go for it - can't do any harm!
I see no need to rush this. I'd rather have the mess contained than risk accidents on my furniture etc...
I don't anticipate even thinking about it for a couple (or several) years.
He gets water in paper cups at daycare with their help. I give him a bathroom cup of water at bathtime and he spills very little.
I figure he can practice some more and then we'll change.
DD rejected sippies in favor of open cups at 22 months (though I did convince her to keep a sippy of water in her bed for nighttime. . . wasn't ready for that mess). We did straw cups in teh car.
DS has been drinking well out of an open cup since 14 or 15 months. . . he can't stand to be "left out" of things that DD does.
He'll still take a sippy if I don't want spills, though.
We do a little of both, with both girls.
When they are sitting down at the table or counter, they can have an open cup or a glass with a straw. Dd2 has a couple of those two handled bunnykins cups which work well for her. I do just a little in it (like 1/8 of the way full) and then refill it often so the mess is reduced. It is a china cup, so it doesn't get knocked over. The little bathroom paper cups are easy to knock over and therefore there are more messes. The mess is from her either tipping it before she gets it to her mouth or getting to much in her mouth and then letting it dribble out. (The girls have never broken any of the china they have)
If they are walking around, in the livingroom or in the car it is a sippy cup as is the cup by the bedside. We try to limit drinks in general though, especially the mobile drinking. I found an old milk sippy cup. It was so gross I just tossed it. The mobile drinking is now exclusively water, unless it is cocktail time and we are having family time and then they can have juice.