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This doesn’t have much to do with saving money (unless you count the money saved on buying sippy cups!), but so many of you asked how we’ve taught Silas to drink from a regular cup yesterday that, just for fun, I did a short video last night explaining how we’ve taught our children to drink from regular cups instead of sippy cups.
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I don’t have a link for information, but I once read that it is actually better for the speech muscles development if you have your children drink out of a regular cup instead of a sippy/straw. So essentially by having your children drink out of a regular cup you are giving them better communication capabilities.
my sister in law is a nurse and has actually told me this same thing. That there are certain muscles they don’t learn how to use while only drinking from a sippy cup!
One of the first thing my daughter’s speech therapist told me was to get rid of the sippy cups!!! Thankfully she only had speech services for two years and speaks well now.
Where did you get the mugs? Are they plastic? My little boy has just started only wanting a “big boy cup” and I know he would love to have his own mug because mommy drinks her coffee out of one.
They were just from a set of cheap glass dishware from Walmart.
Silly off topic question here, but your hoodie looks super cute! Where did you get it?
But I do totally agree with the sippy cup transistion. We started out little guy on real cups (the tupperware ones) no lids while he was still taking a bottle around 9 monthsish.. Like you said just puttinga little bit in it. I sit down to eat with two cups for him, the one he will drink from and a second one of water to refill his cup with… you never know when they will decide to drop it off the highchair so the less amount of water in there the better
It was an online deal awhile back. It’s really comfy — of course, I’m the person who would live in hoodies if I could!
me too but that one looks comfy yet stylish!
any idea on the brand?
Reebok. It was from a deal-of-the-day site, if I’m remembering. Possibly RueLaLa?
I know your try to keep your warobe small- so I was curious about how many hoodies do you have?
Also- do you store the clothes you wear in the “in between” stages during pregnancy (before maternity) and after pregnancy-pre-pregnancy stage? I don’t want to get rid a lot of my clothes but I do not know what size I will be after I have our baby (due at the end of Aug) and do not want to buy all new clothes once I do get to pre-pregnancy size. (It took me almost 2 1/2 years to get back to pre-baby size after I had my son- then I got pregnant! Which is truely a blessing since we were trying for 2 years to give him a sibling)
Do you just keep your favorites? Or store them all and see what fits when your weight seems stable and not steadily declining?
I have three hoodies. I usually just wear them in Winter, but it got cold here recently again, so I pulled them out!
I currently have all my maternity clothes loaned out to my sister-in-law and I don’t have any other clothes in storage. However, it’s been two years since I’ve been pregnant and I’ve been at the same size for quite awhile, so that is somewhat why. I have a few maternity clothes in my loaned-out stash that can be used in early pregnancy or post-partum I tend to buy about 3-4 new items every six months and get rid of the same amount, in order to keep my wardrobe about the same number of clothes all the time. So if I’m losing pregnancy weight, I just try to hold out as long as I can with what I have until I get back down to my pre-pregnancy weight. I don’t always make it and sometimes buy a few inexpensive in-between things, but I try to manage as best as I can.
If you like to dress trendy or wear fitted clothes, this probably wouldn’t work. But since I tend to wear jeans and t-shirts (and hoodies in Winter) most of the time, it usually is manageable. Though I certainly wouldn’t win any fashion awards.
For me the bigger concern is getting my children to sit still in a chair to eat or drink (and is my bigger point of amazement about Crystal’s original post) – maybe if I could do that then I’d let them try regular cups too…as it is, with all the up and down they end up spilling. They all CAN drink out of regular cups (3 1/2 times 2, and 22 months), but I try to save myself headaches where I can.
LOL–NONE of us use regular cups here! All 7 of us use “sippy” bottles all the time b/c I’m such a klutz and knock things over too much (due to chronic illness, pain, weakness). We can write our names on bottles and use them over and over so we don’t have to wash cups all day. We live in the desert so water must be always available or we dehydrate so we take them everywhere and have them by our beds at night. We don’t drink juice or milk so they don’t get yucky inside. We have cups with lids that you stick a straw in for smoothies–when those tip over the sticky mess can’t come out very quickly so it saves me lots of cleanup time.
I wasn’t able to read all the comments, but maybe someone mentioned that sippy cups can contribute to speech delays? We had a 15 month old foster child who was in therapy and they said NO SIPPY CUP. Something about the way the mouth sucked or lips formed around it…don’t remember exactly.
Its true that it’s hard to get the kids to ditch the sippy cups once they get attached to them. We taught our daughter to use a regular cups while using sippy cups as well when she was 11 months old. Now she is 21 months old and she uses her sippy cup, straw cup and regular cups with equal ease. I guess the trick is the earlier the better
As a retired RN who spent 26 years working at the WIC Program, I can tell you that sippy cups was one thing that we had problems with. Children walking around with large sippy cups all day long spoils appetites and causes dental problems. Getting parents to put only water in the cups between meals and at bed time was a struggle.
When my four children were small, sippy cups were 4 ounces. Now it is hard to find one that size. Also, it was used with water at meal times from 6 months to 1 year, when they were learning to hold it…after that they used open cups. We found that the short, fat on the rocks cups worked best because they needed 2 hands to hold them and were less likely to be knocked over.
maybe i over-think things, or because i’m single foster parent but i always ask myself “does _______ help my kid develop age appropriate tasks/behaviors? what are pros & cons for the kid?” from my personal perspective sippy cups, potty chairs, pull ups, training wheels would selfishly benefit only me. unless the child has special needs there is no reason to delay learning just so i can avoid clean up or delay teaching. looking at the big picture i also don’t want to send my kids the message that it’s ok to take the easy way until forced to do it the right way v. giving it 110% and striving to do the right thing from the get go.
Who knew that simple picture of Silas with a smoothie would generate such a buzz?
My little one was much like your 3. I found that sippies didn’t work well for me because they were too much for transitioning from bottle feeding, not breast-feeding and she had no clue how to generate that sort of sucking pattern. If you remove the valve to make it easy or no-suck, you remove the no-spill features. Thus no value. Her greatest joy with a sippy cup at that age was shaking water out of the spout. My favorite early drinking cup was an old 2-handled Gerber “sippy” with the lid removed (probably 40 years old) from the thrift store.
She mastered drink water from a water bottle (no valves) very quickly I think because of the small opening. It fascinated people to see a toddler drinking from a 20 ounce regular water bottle while we were out shopping.
That’s too funny! I taght my daughter to drink straight from a regular water bottle when she was like 18months and she drank from it better than her cousins that were 5 & 6!
We also taught both of our kids to drink from straws at about 7 months. I was told by a speech pathologist that straws help with the mucles in their mouth to form properly and are much better than sippy cups.
When we’re out and about (especially at a restaurant), I use the lid from my son’s bottle to give him little sips of what I’m drinking, which is water or occasionally, unsweetened tea. He still dribbles a little down his chin, but he likes it. And if he dumps the whole thing, it’s only an ounce or two.
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