Honey bear

Stillharbor · June 2013

I went to a Talk Tools seminar for DS and found out that straw cups are better for DS kids than sippy cups. (The straw encourages building the tongue muscle b/s you have to pull your tongue back to suck on a staw, while sippy cups promotes tongue thrusting like bottle feeding. (At least that's what I was told.))

So my question is, did you go out and buy the honey bear (where?) or did you just buy one of the sippy cups that have straws to them?

ToastieSimons · June 2013

Playtex makes a straw cup that you can squeeze. It's not as easy as the honey bear to squeeze but I found the trick is that you have to keep it really full. If you only put a small amount of liquid it will take both hands and a lot of effort to make the liquid rise.

https://www.target.com/p/playtex-straw-cup-large-1-pack/-/A-13985549#prodSlot=medium_1_1&term=playtex+straw

You could also just practice with juiceboxes. Or a rubbermaid reusable juice box.

https://www.rubbermaid.com/Category/Pages/ProductDetail.aspx?Prod_ID=RP091206

However, you can't really see the liquid coming up the straw with those.

zoeyandsummersmom · June 2013

Amazon has a lot of the talk tools products. We got the honey bear and the 4 pack of rubber hammers for DD to chew. We also use the playtex cups with the straws and the tommy tipee sipees work too.

Stillharbor · June 2013

dcmetrobride:
Amazon has a lot of the talk tools products.

WOW!! Just looked at Amazon. So not paying $13 + shipping for a honey bear. Maybe I need to make my own.

finsup · June 2013

We just used the take n toss straw cups. Cheap, but they do leak so its not like a regular sippy that can be tossed around...no valve etc.

Then we moved on to a straw funtainer thermos like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Thermos-Funtainer-Bottle-Disneys-Cars/dp/B002J00WMA/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1370804260&sr=8-4&keywords=thermos+straw+replacements

goldenleaves · June 2013

Lauren can't do straw cups, the straw is too soft. She does pretty well with a regular straw though! A honey bear cup is definitely in our future. She's still taking bottles though!

mamahawk12 · June 2013

We were able to get a few through our SLP for a slightly discounted rate than the standard $12-13. They were still $10 a piece I think. She said she had several families use actual honey bottles and plastic tubing from the hardware store.

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