My 20 month old refuses to drink from a regular cup!?

Question

Hi everyone, I am kind of worried, my toddler drinks from a sippy but I am trying to introduce the regular cup and he refuses to drink from it. He is in daycare and his teacher said she want to start introducing him to it, so i started at home. Well, he would just sit there and look at and play with it. He will put his spoon it it or pour it out. At school he wouldnt drink at all, even if you try to show him how to do it, he would turn his head. And he barely drank from the school's sippy too. So I brought one from home and he is drinking from that now. What is going on, it is really worrying me. All the other kids his age are drinking out of regular cups and he isnt. They didnt have a problem weaning them. And he doesnt like the cups the school provide either. He will be two in November, and I want him to get the hang of this. I am not forcing him or anything, i just want to know if this is normal. Oh yeah, first time mother.

Answer 1

I wouldn't stress over it. All kids are different and he may even be a little stressed over the situation. My kids are 1 and 3, they drink from big cups with straws or sippys. Well the 1 year old needs me to hold the big cup with the straw but he drinks from it.

And If my 3 year old is given a big cup without a straw she spills or plays with it.

Answer 2

Dont worry.My daughter is 19 months old and still drinks from a sippy.They will get it eventually.I think I am gonna wait a couple of more months to start my child.I tried but she still turns it up in the air like she does her sippy.He is perfectly fine.Babies will be babies and will learn some things at their own pace.

Answer 3

He will get it, some kids dont' adjust to a big cup until they are 3 years old so don't worry.  He just needs to be off the sippy by age 3.  And no most kids his age aren't drinking from regular cups atleast not on a regular basis.  I worked in daycares and the kids weren't using regular cups until they were 2 1/2 years old and then they would spill it all the time.

Answer 4

I think, you and he know the best answer to this. You don't want to force your child, because he'll get turned easily. Don't give up though. Let it go for a few days, and try again. Sit with him and drink together. Share a cup. Put snacks in a normal cup, he'll play with it, eventually eat out of it, and then might drink out of it.

My daughter is two, and she drinks out of a sippy cup. My son is 16mths, and it took him a little while to get him off the bottle to a sippy cup.

She was barely breastfed and liked pacifiers. He was breastfed til about 9mths, and didn't like pacifiers.

All kids are different. All kids are the same. :) Confusing, huh?

Just take your time. Pay attention to his signals, and keep trying. You're teaching him this, just like walking and crawling, and just like you'll teach him to draw or write, and you'll teach him to treat a woman.

Its hard, huh? :) Take care. You'll do good, both of you. If the teacher keeps bothering you about it, I'd let her know where the two of you are on the matter, and kindly ask her to  work with you guys. And, encourage her to encourage him. You two probably have different ways of teaching him, and he's bound to pick it up either way.

Answer 5

My sister-in-law is a pediatric dentist and she gets really angry with mothers who let their children drink juice from a sippy-cup. Apparently its not good and rots their teeth. I don't have children of my own, so I'm not too sure, but just thought I would pass this on.