HI Micheala-

 

My advice to you is... try drinking from a sippy-cup yourself when your son is around (ie. lunch time) when he sees you drinking like that he very well may pick up on it-and want to model you as that's what children do every day of their life.

 

Also, I think you should hear this... I had a friend that had her daughter nursing BEYOND the age of two years... going to sleep every night sucking away... well it's sad to say but that child just had dental surgery at the age of 2 1/2 for 9 cavities!!! No she was not eating juck food, drinking juice from a bottle or not brushing her teeth... the doctor out right told her mother due to the fact that she was falling asleep every night sucking away & keeping those natural sugars on her teeth all night-here's the result!! During the day she'd drink from a glass like a "big girl"... but her mother had an insecurity (divorced from the father) and that was her comfort zone to continue to have the need to be needed by someone. That's not the point here thou.. the point is 9 cavities at the age of 2 1/2 due to sucking to sleep.

 

Have the bottle as a 'baby item' only babies drink from bottles-point out babies drinking from bottles when you see them in the store, on tv, at a restaurant, in magazines, etc. Yes to you he's still your baby ... but sometimes at that age they want to be 'big boys or girls'.

 

GOOD LUCK!!!

 

 

 

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