Sippy cups!? 11 months old.?

Remember the saying, "Mommy knows best"? I live by that saying! lol. At 11 months old (which is how old my son will be in a few days) is NOT using a cup that will soak him; his clothes; the floor, ect. He using the leakproof ones which exactly aren't 100% leak free. :)

If you think what your doing is right && you KNOW it's not harming your child; chances are you are right :)

what do you suppose parents did BEFORE sippy cups were invented?

I never used one at all and it is easy and fun to teach a little one how to drink out of a regular cup.

First off, use a very small narrow plastic cup, like an old fashioned 4 ounce juice cup.

Do it at meal time because your baby watches everyone else at the table so will mimic.

put about a teaspoon of milk or water or juice in the cup and show him/her how to 'drink' and then allow them to do it themselves. At first they will end up flinging it in their own face or simple tilt the cup and spill. That why you only put in a tiny bit. Once they get the hint that holding it sideways will spill(which in my opinion is the BIGGEST draw back of a sippy cup) they will be able to be handed a small cup with about an inch or so of liquid. It goes very fast, the learning process.

Mine started with a cup when we all ate together, at around 7-8 months old. They have the ability to hold a bottle at that age and holding a cup comes naturally. The rest comes very quickly.

I never allowed my baby to have the cup on the high chair tray but would offer it through out the meal. When baby needed a drink of water, off to the sink we went, got HIS special cup and they had a drink of water just like a big person, with moms help of course.

This totally eliminates all the fuss over a lost cup.

When you switch a sippy cup from the bottle you accomplish nothing. Now baby is stuck to the sippy cup instead of the bottle. Big deal.

The books are junk, yet besides.... Why no longer an open cup? He has to enhance the abilities to apply one finally and no rely once you introduce an open cup you are going to have messes. that's in simple terms element of the approach. once you're that loopy over spills then you certainly can initiate sluggish. Open cups with water and in common terms on the table. as quickly as he starts off to get the cling of it you may provide him different issues to drink and permit him have the cup removed from the table. and don't get discouraged if he spills it, even adults are clumsy each and every from time to time. and a great style of toddlers bypass sippy cups altogether and do properly with open cups from 6 months on. that's not puzzling or a huge deal. We by no capacity did something yet an open cup. Spills have been minimum and he or she's almost 2 and hasn't made a multitude in months.

My mum gave birth to my little brother 2 years ago and last year she started using a "learning to drink" cup. It was a cup that looked similar to an ordinary cup but was slightly tilled to one side. My brother got used to it within a week and drank milk and water easily! She bought it from John Lewis and it was so useful! My little brother started when he was 1 years old it it's quite similar.

Here's a picture:

http://www.johnlewis.com/230409356/Product.aspx

but we bought it blue :D

I hope I've helped :)

P.S at first my we fed my brother but soon he started feeding himself! We were so proud! Be careful thought because it can spill easily but it was worth it when he learnt to do things himself.

I've read up on why the nonspill ones aren't good. They say getting the liquid out could be too tough (they have to suck really hard) and it could cause jaw malformation.