getting your toddler off the bottle  

I started at about a year and giving them sippy cups at meals, then play time then I just got rid of the bottles and said they where all gone. One of my girls was stubborn and cried the first couple times I said this but once her fit was over she would take the cup. if they know you won't give in and give them the bottle then it will go more quickly. Also make sure bottles are gone or packed away tight so you don't give in. Those crocodile tears can be total killers to a parent..lol

It's gunna take some patience and unhappiness... we got our daughter to go to a sippy cup durig the day when she was almost 2 and then I gave birth to her little sister and for some reason my oldest came home and didn't want the bottle anymore and she wanted to be a big girl and even sleep in her own bed... My youngest daughter is almost one now. and we have already started giving her a sippy cup when we sit down to eat dinner... so start when YOU are ready because it's going to take alot of patience...it's like potty trainin slow messy process

hi ersanmiguel,
well,as for now,that was really my problem.i have been taking care of my niece and it's really hard to get off of her the bottles.
me and my sister(who is her mom) try to convince my niece sometimes to drink in a glass because now she's three years old and some people told me that it was really bad habit for a child to still have bottles at the age of three cause it may sometimes cause to not speaking properly,is that true?
i'm really not sure of it!but we really initiated my niece that there were no bottles or sometimes,we just say "tomorrow is the time you'll get milk to your bottle".even if we use to say it everyday,at least she's respecting what we said to her and she believes it.when the truth really is we're not going to provide milk to her bottles again!i guess it turning out well!cause she's having glass of milk almost everyday though sometimes there will be tantrums and getting wild!
it's always a part of that!

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