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When is a good age for taking the sippy away.

Victoria - posted on 05/04/2010 ( 7 moms have responded )

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My son is 2 years old. An I have been thinking of taking him off the sippy. He can drink out of a cup an everything. I just don't wanna take it away too soon. what do you ladys think?

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Verity - posted on 05/07/2010

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my son is 3 and is able to drink from a cup, but he still drinks from a sippy cup as it is guarenteed to not make a spill on our carpet, he is still too clumsy with a cup...

Dani - posted on 05/05/2010

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Why do you take it away? Offer both. He will have the opp. to make a choice .peer pressure will eventually help him make his own decision. They're only young once.Want to

Alegre - posted on 05/04/2010

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We took the sippy cups away from our kids at two. At first we used the 'toss-n-take" cups that have straws, sometime they still use those. We let them use "regular" cups only if we were sitting at the table. I think two is a good age to take them off the sippy cup.

Gillian - posted on 05/04/2010

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I think my daughter was about 2 and half when i started taking away the sippy cup.The earlier the better thou.If ur son manages fine,he's ready.

April - posted on 05/04/2010

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It's more of a "weening" the parents/caregivers of the sippy cup than the child... lots of accidents.... My daughter is two, almost 3 now. She is able to use a cup too, but we still use a sippy. We try to REMEMBER to give her a regular cup (small, plastic) when we sit down to eat a meal. That worked well with our other daughter. She was also around 2 or 3 when we started with her. That's a "comfortable" way (less accidents) to get them used to using a cup.

Victoria - posted on 05/04/2010

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Thanks. I was think of not taking it away completly more like for car rides or if we are outside playing

Sarah - posted on 05/04/2010

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2 is great to start getting on a regular cup. The sippy cup is suppose to be used only as a transition cup. To many times the sippy becomes the new bottle. So that is great you are wanting to get him on the cup.

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