3 1/2 Year Old Wont Give up Straw Cup

I made the kids stay with straw tippy cups until they were...well, 2 years ago I guess is when I gave them away. The kids are 6 and 9.

I didn't like cleaning up spills so I made them use big kids straw screw on lid cups. I don't know why you want to make a 3 year old use a cup with no straw or lid....messes.....

Unless the straw cup is difficult to clean properly I see no issues. OT's and Speech Therapists recommend using straws for a while with kids, it helps their mouth muscles.

You will hate this story, but my mother let us drink Hi-C (yes, that pure sugar drink) out of bottles until we were about 6 years old! I know! Totally awful, but amazingly not one of us is odd! My son was more than 3 when he finally gave up his bottle! LOL! He is all grown up and nothing weird about him. Don't stress.

I don't see why this is a problem. Obviously she is capable of drinking out of both types of cups....

As long as she's getting the nutrition she needs...it shouldn't be an issue.

My 4 and 5 year olds still use straw cups most of the time at home. Nothing wrong with it just what they prefer and as long as they are drinking why would you mess with that

I agree with the others that there is no reason to make her change. I have the Tupperware tumblers with lids that uses straws. My oldest dd is 15 and still uses them everyday for her chocolate milk. She uses regular glasses for everything else.

Why would you switch it? Straws are awesome. She obviously knows how to drink from a regular cup, so let her have her milk straw.

Don't stress it. A friend of mine still gives her almost-8 year old a straw cup! It's not the same as a sippy cup or soother in terms of mouth/tooth development. Straws are fine :)

I've been drinking out of a straw for 30 years, and don't plan on stopping anytime soon. What's the deal? Why do you care if she drinks out of a straw? There is nothing wrong with it.

I almost always drink out of a straw cup. I can be a bit of a klutz. Also, I like really cold drinks, but I don't like ice hitting my teeth. Love the straw cups!!! I have two at work and two and home, and I use them all the time.

I let me kids use regular cups at the table, but if they want a drink anywhere else in the house, I give them a straw cup. I don't want to have to clean up their messes.

What if you just put the milk in a regular cup and still gave her a straw?

Personally, I don't think it is a big deal - it's probably just a security thing. For what it is worth, my daughter insisted on having a sippy cup for morning juice and would use a regular cup for everything else. If we put the orange juice in a regular cup, she insisted it tasted different. She wasn't drinking with the sippy cup all day long, just some orange juice in the morning and that was it. Finally I told her that she was getting too big and too old for sippy cups and got rid of all of them. I gave her the juice in a regular cup with a straw and she did just fine.

I still like to drink out of a cup with a straw. I don't think it is anything to worry about.

Not a problem in my book. Let her have her straw cup.

What's a straw cup?

Why don't you just let her have it, then?

Are you talking about the sippy style cups with a straw? Like the ones with the soft straw that folds down? I don't really see that as a problem. If you really want her to drink from a cup, can you put it in a regular cup with a bendy straw? That might work.
My kids still like straws in their cups, my daughter is 5 and my son is 3.

I would let her have the straw. She CAN drink from a regular cup if she wants to, so it's not a skill thing, it's a preference thing.

If it is a straw sippy cup (the ones for toddlers), then I would switch to a regular straw cup with a lid like they have at restaurants for kids meals. That is only if she needs the lid because she is clumsy at the table. She should not be walking around with milk in a cup at all so it shouldn't be a spill issue anywhere but at the table anyway. If she just likes using a straw, but you don't want her to use the cups you have (maybe you think they are too babyish?) then I would get rid of all of the cups and give her a regular one from your cupboard with a disposable bendy straw. There is nothing wrong with using a straw.

What's wrong with using a straw? I mean, it's not like a bottle that could be damaging her teeth.