Drinking from an open cup

[game blouses]

How old was your kid when they could do it? DS just turned two and will attempt to do it at home, but outright refuses to try it at preschool.

[tcu2003]

DS is 25 months, and has been doing so for 3-4 months...maybe longer. We still use straw cups in the car and when out and about, though.

[zarapipe]

Thry started at 2 at dc. She still has issues sometimes at 4 with spilling.

[scribellesam]

DS can do it (26mo) but he spills a good amount. I prefer to have him use a straw cup, which probably hasn't helped the learning curve.

[zeewifeandmama]

He can use one decently reliably now... But he chooses to mix his drinks with his food these days, so I still mostly do covered cups.

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Jul 11, 2014 18:21:47 GMT -5 scribellesam said:

DS can do it (26mo) but he spills a good amount. I prefer to have him use a straw cup, which probably hasn't helped the learning curve.

Ditto this. DS is 29 months and *can* drink from an open cup, but he often spills. He'll also set the cup on the table and it's not all the way on there and it falls off. Or he'll swipe it with his hand while playing. So we use straw cups. Ain't nobody got the time or money to clean spilled milk out of carpet 10 times a day.

[Deleted]

Right after 2. She's great with it now at 3 as long as it's not too full.
She still gets a water bottle type of cup and an actual sippy at bedtime though. Girl is a fiend for her beverages and I don't want that dripped all over.

[ilikedonuts]

DD1 is 32 months. She can use one pretty well, but I never give her one because sippies are easy and I'm lazy. I would say by 2.5 she was pretty good at it. ETA: straw sippies are what we use

[undecidedowl]

DS was pretty good at it by 20 months. But I would always keep the cup by me and only hand it to him for drinks because I didn't want to deal with all the accidental spills. Even now, at 2.5, we use straw cups more than half the time out of laziness.

[bunch]

By two we used them regularly. I'm too lazy for sippy parts, so she had lots of practice.

[badtzmaru22]

DD *can* just fine, but she plays in it, and sticks her spoon in it, and I can't deal with that craziness, so we still use sippies.

[hocus2]

At 18 months they started  giving kids 1 oz of juice in a cup at the mommy and me program. There were lots of spills of course but a lot of kids eventually picked it up. 

My kids are 4 and about to turn 3 and I'm thinking of just ditching at the straw cups at the end of the year.

[mie]

They were 2ish.

[whitepicketfence]

DD1 didn't become good at it (very few spills) until closer to 4. DD2 will be 3 in a couple weeks and, while she can drink from a real cup just fine, I can't trust her with one away from the table or unsupervised yet. She'll play with the contents of the cup occasionally if I'm not keeping a close eye on her.

[aspentosh]

Probably shortly before 2. We used closed cups on the go, but now it's pretty much always open (she is 2.5).

[babyrn]

This is on her 18 month checklist her doctor gave us, which kind of surprised me. She is only 16 months now but we haven't really even tried it.

[cherry1111]

Yep, this was an 18 month ages and stages question. I'd never tried. I just assumed it would result in a huge mess and ain't nobody got time for that.

[Marmee]

My almost 16mo old has it down pretty good already. This is a result of waiting way too long for my others...(4-6yrs)...lol.

[arch01]

they do open cups only at DC and have since 16m. i'm too lazy to deal with spills at home right now, so he gets a sippy 75% of the time.

[vanillacourage]

DS2 when 2.

DS1 when 5....

[gibbinator]

Ds was pretty reliable with one by 20 months. By two we were only using sippies when out of the house. He's always been pretty careful and conscientious of spills though.

[spanikopita]

2y