Sippy cups and utensils

[oregonpachey]

I was spoiled with last DS. He went to daycare and she taught him how to use a sippy and utensils.

DS#2 doesn't know how to use a sippy. I keep offering but he just chews on the spout. At what age should they be drinking from one?

And when do you give them utensils? I put them on his tray with dinner but he just bangs them around.

[bunch]

I started dd on a straw sippy at 4 mos. she didn't use it regularly until 6. I started utensils around 13 mos. she still struggles with a spoon.

[raylongivens]

We started DD on a zippy cup at a year. She picked it up pretty quickly. We did straw sippies a bit later.

[Deleted]

We started on a straw sippy around 9 months. She never did a regular sippy.

She was given her own spoon to hold and try to use from the day we started feeding solids. She started really trying to use them most of the time around 10, 11 months? She's always been pretty good with them.

[Saudade]

We gave DS a sippy last weekend for the first time and it was a total failure. He figured out how to put it in is mouth but wouldn't tip it so nothing came out. He screamed. If we tried to help him he screamed. We just took it away because it wasn't worth the screaming. We'll try again later.

[MamaMaui24]

I think the straw sippys are easier to figure out at first. I just got this one and baby figured it out pretty easily.

Zoli BOT Orange Straw Sippy Cup - 6oz amzn.com/B0031E1GEQ

[DarcyLongfellow]

DD could never figure out a regular sippy, so we went straight to straw sippies.

I taught her how to use one by letting her use a Take and Toss straw cup because those don't have any valves, so the liquid is easy to get out. Once she had the hang of those, we moved on to the kind with valves that don't spill.

I can't remember when she started using utensils, but it was definitely a decision she made. Forks took a long time, but she used spoons fairly early -- sometime between a year and a year and a half, maybe?? She would feed herself greek yogurt early on -- I started with that because it was thicker and would stay on the spoon easily. I think she started feeding herself cereal with milk before she turned two??

[GailGoldie]

both around 11-12mo.

[Here]

Around 11 months for the sippy. We started with straw cups, but she got confused by the sippy at daycare and tried to tilt it up.

We gave her utensils at a year. We let her play with them. She tries to eat with them.

[Deleted]

DS is 8.5 months, we've tried a regular and straw sippy a few times since 6 months, with no success. He can't tip the regular sippy, and he just chews on the straw. We're going to try again in a few weeks.

[kittycatlove]

We started the sippy at about 9 months, it took him awhile to figure it out. We started with Nuby ones with the spot more like a nipple. He now prefers the staw ones. We started witha spoon about 1 year maybe? He can use it pretty good for yogurt and applesauce but refuses to use it for anything else and still uses his hands, he's 19 months now.

[pamela]

DS was using utensils with messy results just after a year. He's almost 22 months now and can do cheerios with milk and is working on chopsticks. The boy loves food so anything to get food to his mouth he wants to learn.

For sippy cups, it took him awhile to figure it out. I removed the valve for a little bit so he could figure out why he'd want to do something with it.

[hocus]

I give my 16 month old spoons sometimes but he has no clue how to eat with one. I'm not too worried he'll pick it up soon enough. He picked up sippy cups really fast though -- maybe by 10 months? I had ones that were soft like bottle. He now uses a straw cup.