At what age should I teach my daughter to drink from a regular plastic cup and how do I successfully wean her from a sippie. She wants nothing to do with a cup if it has no lid....even those with a straw. Help! She's 27 mo. old.
2007-10-24 03:42:06 · 12 answers · asked by Mom of One in Wisconsin 6 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
She will let you know when she's ready. My son began drinking from a regular cup around 2, he just went up to my husband and wanted to drink water from his cup, and he liked the fact that it didn't have a lid or a straw. One day I went out, and my husband couldn't find his cup, so he gave him in a regular cup, he did make a mess, but since that day he refused profoundly to take a cup with any type of lid, it took him a few days before he could get the handle of it, but now (at 2 1/2) he's an expert drinking out of a regular cup.
My nephew learned to drink out of a regular cup way before he turned 2, and my sister still gives him his liquids in either a sippy cup or a regular cup, he's not picky.
Don't be in a rush to get her to drink out of a regular cup just because other children her age are doing it. I've learned that all children develop different skills at different times, some do some things earlier that others and some do some things later than others.
Besides, there are good advantages to sippy cups, you can take them everywhere ready with your daughters favorite drink, and there is less spills to clean up.
Like I said, don't rush her, she'll be ready when she's ready, she's still very small, don't force her to do something she's not ready to do, I don't like to take things away just because it's convenient for me, or because it's time. But, if you are set in getting her to drink from a regular cup, get her a cup with her favorite character, Disney Princess, Elmo, Blues Clues, etc. that might motivate her to try the "big girl" cups.
Good luck!!
2007-10-24 03:56:16 · answer #1 · answered by Butterflies 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe you have plenty of time. My daughter is 3 1/2 and she drinks out of both. She often chokes when drinking from a cup because she gets too much. And the spilling stinks. So, my opinion is..........use the sippie cut. Less mess. We did start using a regular cup when she was 2 1/2. But, the sippie comes in handy!
2007-10-24 03:46:15 · answer #2 · answered by JUNONNKI 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make sure you aren't' using those cups that regulate the flow of fluid. It may take some time. Make sure when you give her a reg. cup it doesn't have a lot of fluid in it she may not like it going all over her face. Try using a to go cup with just the slit in the lid not a sippy cup and see how that works.
2007-10-24 03:50:46 · answer #3 · answered by billie b 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is one of those things that must be done VERY casually.
The reason she doesn't want an open cup is because it is difficult to manage and might spill.
I don't like plastic, but you could try little paper Dixie cups. Put up a dispenser at her height in the bath and kitchen, and buy a quart of milk or orange juice in the paper carton.
In the bathroom, you get a Dixie cup and barely cover the bottom of it with water to take your vitamin with or swish around your mouth for 'pretend' mouthwash.
In the kitchen, you get a drink of milk or juice with the Dixie cup, filling it only 25% or so. After a few days, you can invite her to get her own drink with a Dixie, putting only a little on the bottom of the cup.
You might be on Dixie cups for months. The thing is to only put a small amount of liquid in the bottom of the cup so that it is easily managed, and to use small cups easily managed by little hands.
2007-10-24 03:51:08 · answer #4 · answered by nora22000 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My son is three and I still give him a lid on his cups occasionally! He drinks better from a cup, not so much work sucking it out of the sippy cup, but to save on mess I still give him sippy cups sometimes.
What's the rush?
2007-10-24 03:45:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My twins are 10 months oldand won't even enable a sippie go close to their mouths because of the fact the two the fluid comes out too rapid or they could desire to suck truly stressful to get something out. i'll attend til they have extra administration of their palms and attempt them with a cup rather. slightly longer on the bottle won't harm i assume. i became into on the bottle for over 3 years which I why my tooth have been given undesirable, 6 months longer shouldn't harm anymore than a baby havign a dummy til they're 5! At your toddler's age, that's probable extra a case of the bottle being a ordinary convenience to him and not the certainty that he desires it. If he's conscious sufficient to understand what you advise once you're saying he needs to surrender his bottle, do some thing to reward him for being this style of grown up boy like a sparkling toy or to stay wide awake slightly later that night to observe a favorite programme or an added reading of his typical e book. He could be extra enticed to furnish it up then and choose for a cup or sippie! If he can;'t understand that yet (as at 14 months that could desire to be a large accomplishment if he did!) supply it till he's eighteen months previous and attempt back. each and all the terrific! I truly have all of this to come again yet it is the advice I truly have been given for while it is composed of removing the bottles.
2016-12-15 08:05:15 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My daughter is now 4. When she was 21/2 I took hers away. She went to her grandma's house and came home with pop in it. Something we NEVER do. So that day I took every single sippy cup away took her to the store and bought her new cups. NOT SIPPY CUPS. Just the little cups for little people. She got to pick them out. They have all kinds of cute little cups. Cars, Dora, barbie, blues clues, ect. And she never asked for her sippy cup again.
2007-10-24 03:54:16 · answer #7 · answered by someone in Nebraska 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well all my kids started experimenting with lidless cups around 9 months. It didn't always end up getting much inside them so we did it in the tub. They started to get the idea and by 18 months ( that was the lastest of my 3) they could most of the time successfully drink from a lidless cup. Of course it wasn't always a good idea like in the car or what not but when we were at home and it was acontrolled environment we went "topless" LOL If she really is thirsty she will start to use a lidless cup. Like I said try to get her to "Play" with it in the tub and see what happens. Good Luck
2007-10-24 03:48:00 · answer #8 · answered by kahnedame 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my daughter gives her daughter hard tipped sippys.. they are still sippys yes but they reduce the need to suck like a soft tip one and she encourages the use of a straw... give her water in them only..any flavored or milk drinks shes gotta use a straw or a reg cup she will get the point pretty quickly
2007-10-24 03:48:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't worry about it - let her dictate when the time is right. There will be circumstances when she will have to drink from a cup, when you are at a friend's or somewhere where there is no cup with a lid. If she is thirsty, she will give it a try. Meanwhile, just let her have what she feels happy with.
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2007-10-24 03:48:54 · answer #10 · answered by Ritaskeeter 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋