I’m going to teach you some practical tricks. Don’t throw up your hands and close this page. When a child is around 1-year-old, he has the coordination to begin getting a cup to his mouth with some success. Turns out my gut reaction of 2nd grade is a bit late. Then, for the first of many times to come, I stepped back, watched and learned. But then I came to the realization that they had been doing this for many, many years – and it worked, or else they wouldn’t continue to do it. I thought they had lost their ever-loving minds (giving 15, 4-year-old kids open cups!). That is, until I saw the tables with little, open, non-sippy, no-lid cups. I thought the founder of the Montessori method was brilliant. Second grade seemed like a good time to switch.Īs a pediatrician, I never will forget walking around the Montessori classroom in complete awe. “Nope,” I remember thinking, “we will keep the sippy cups.”
I remember well the line on the triplet mom’s blog post that read, “When did you guys get rid of sippy cups?” When I first contemplated transitioning from a sippy cup to a regular cup, I had visions of three newly-walking babes toddling around, sloshing milk all over my home. And when they were babies, I read every blog post and piece of advice I could find from moms of other multiples.
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