2007-03-26 10:31:46 · 18 answers · asked by Nyema 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
As soon as your child can drink a sufficient amount of fluids from a regular cup (and not be too messy about it), you can get rid of the sippy! There is no clear age, just whenever your child is ready to drink from a regular cup!
2007-03-26 10:38:34 · answer #1 · answered by mom_princess77 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am a pre-school teacher and work with children ages 18-24months and we take them off the sippy cup right away. they do not use sippy cups in the 2 year old room so we get them used to a cup before they move up. We use small cups and don't fill them all the way. Yes, there will be lots of spills in the beginning but, they learn fast. We don't have time to be washing out 10 sippy cups all day so this is a must for us.
2007-03-26 12:21:02 · answer #2 · answered by pegaliepooh 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After a child gets off of the bottle then you should introduce a cup between the sippy cup. Chances are that if you're child goes to daycare they are teaching them the same there. I would try at snack and meal times with a cup. If it's just an I'm thirsty thing, then a sippy cup would work. Sometimes, if you wait too long a child will treat the sippy cup the same as a bottle and not want to give it up.
2007-03-26 10:51:30 · answer #3 · answered by ahvismommy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sippy cups aren't great for teeth so the sooner the better. However that isn't to say you can't use a regular cup most of the time and a sippy on the go. Mind you a sports bottle is spill proof too.
2007-03-26 10:40:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When they can successfully drink out of a cup without spilling. I give my son a cup every once in a while he still spills most of the time. When it becomes more natural to him I will then take away the sippy. He is 18 months right now, so probably another year and a half.
2007-03-26 10:36:27 · answer #5 · answered by The Invisible Woman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
4
2007-03-26 10:34:59 · answer #6 · answered by farmer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2 1/2 but 2
2007-03-26 10:34:05 · answer #7 · answered by Diva 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My kids used a sippy cup until they refused to use them , they're 10 and 8 and when we go to restaurants Im still tempted to ask for a plastic cup with a lid on it to make sure they dont spill anything lol
2007-03-26 10:45:27 · answer #8 · answered by prguntona 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My little brother grew to become into ingesting out of a familiar cup at age 2!! That sounds kinda early however the accepted age that folk might desire to get their little ones off sippy cup is 3-3 and nil.5!!
2016-10-20 12:14:30 · answer #9 · answered by benavidez 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I gave my children a cup after I stopped breast feeling.. Guess it was when they were 1 yr old when they started and anywhere from 2 yrs to 4 yrs to graduate to a regular cup. Each child is different . My oldest was fine and two. But my second child took longer and same with the third.
2007-03-26 10:41:34 · answer #10 · answered by DearAbby 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋