getting rid of sippy cups.

I don't have kids, but 3/4-year-olds don't have enough coordination for certain things. If you're using a regular glass, maybe you can replace it with a light, plastic one, glasses can be too heavy or too large for kids, sometimes. You can also use a straw for a while. It's usually fun for kids to drink through a straw. In any case, I wouldn't worry about it, for now. We didn't have any sippy cups when I was growing up and we managed, just give your daughter a little time and help her out handling the glass :)

My son is 4 and will be 5 this year and I still can't trust him with a regular cup around the house. If he is sitting at the kitchen table he will have a regular cup. Also if we go out to eat he will have a regulaer cup. I figure the time will just happen when he won't use a sippy cup at all.

I am just trying to think when they actually did give them up. My youngest daughter, when she was 9 or 10 certainly bought herself one. I also had an uncle who thought it the ideal thing when driving on a long car journey. We laughed ... until we saw the impeccable logic! I think the answer is 'when they are so keen to be like an adult that they master the art of drinking from a regular cup.' When they WANT to do something, it happens almost overnight. Don't worry her or hassle her about her sippy cup. They are an amazingly useful invention. When she wants to abandon it, she will. Just don't force her or make her feel it's particularly babyish. She knows already and would find it hilarious and incongruous (and even a little shocking) to see an adult using one.

What do you mean get rid of sippy cups? I still use them. I put them on my glass when I take it in the car with me. It cuts down on spills in the car. This doesn't have an age limit. I also use them when we are having a party in the back yard because accidents happens and when you are eating outside you don't want any more bugs than are necessary. Your child is three her hands may still be to small to hold a regular cup and carefully put it down. You may want to wait till she can hold the cup with one hand. I think sippy seals were a great invention. I get mine from tupperware and they seem to do a good job controlling those little accidents. If she likes the cups don't worry about taking them off.

My son is 3 years and 4 months old. He still uses a sippy cup in every room in the house except the kitchen. He can use a cup like the other children, but can't be trusted with it anywhere else except the kitchen. I guess when they turn 4 maybe they can try it.

My daughter had a hard time too but I just got some cute kid cups and put a straw in it with the House Rule of all cups stay on the kitchen table. She is 4 and still spills once in awhile but our kids can't be babies forever. The key is putting a straw in the cup...we keep a bunch in the cupboard with the cups and they are so cheap.

I think most of my kids have transitioned to a regular cup somewhere around three years old. But we never let them go all over the house with them either. Regular cups were required to stay either in the kitchen or on the dining room table. I agree that a fun way to transition is with a straw. As a matter of fact, one of our kids will be turning three this year and prefers to drink from a regular cup with a straw over a sippy. If it would help, I'd suggest getting one of the two handled kids cups that comes with the sippy top, and give it to her sans lid. That way, she's got something that fits her hands (not too big) and she can practice drinking without the sippy part. After she masters that, you can transition to maybe a smaller Tupperware-type plastic cup.

My daughter is almost 3 and she is in a sippy still for that very reason. :) My son is 5 and he doesn't have a sippy cup, but he still has a tupperware cup with a lid. It's not a sippy lid, but a lid nonetheless because he is still really messy

My son is 2 1/2 and he still drinks out of a sippy cup but will drink out of a regular cup at preschool. His brother is only 1 1/2 though and I can't have them spilling things all the time. I might start trying to get rid of them when they are 3 and 4.

My daughter started drinking from a cup at about 18 months but I didn't trust her on her own with a regular cup until she was like 3. I still kept a close eye on her until she fully got the hang of it though.

it was about 3 1/2 i finally got rid of the lids. i instituted a "no drink away from the table" policy and made sure that they kept them sitting down. no, she's not going to be great at it to begin with, but she wasn't great at walking to begin with either. everything takes practice and time to get used to it. get rid of the lid. after all, at about 4, doesn't she go to preschool? at preschool, they don't have sippy cups.

When my daughter was 3 or 4 I bought her the plastic character cups with a straw and lids on them. They have them at Wal-Mart, she still uses them and she will be 6 soon!!

My 4 year old still uses "sippy cups". They're not the spout kind anymore, but rather the kind with the straws. She does use regular cups but the majority of the time it's the spill-proof things. I think that once they get to a point that they only want something to drink during meal times and the occasional drink in between that you can start transitioning to regular cups. At 3 they still need quite a bit of fluids and want to carry around a cup with them! Don't be in a hurry, you'll know when the time is right :)

It is very hard to tell when a toddler leaves the sippy cup & switches over to regular cups of milk. The age is such but surely at around 4 years of age when your child is walking & able to speak, it is time for the child to learn the habit of regular cup of taking milk. So wait for another 6 months for your daughter to be 4 years. Till then play with your daughter & fondle her with affection & all that is basically the mother's work only. And when your daughter is drinking milk, be present by her side & papmer her to drink milk in a melodious tone. All that would comfort your daughter in drinking the milk & not spilling it.

When the little ones want something to drink why not put them up to the table and give thenm a glass that fits their little hands. That is what we would do many years ago. My kids did not run all over the house with sippy cups or glasses they drank their water from a small glass in the kitchen near the sink. No mess all over the house and no problem with lost sippy cups. hey loved learning to drink from a glass when I would be drinking water. The juices are so sweet that they are not good for babies any way. orange juice is the only one not full of sugar.