Strollerderby : sippy cup

Mom Finds New Use For Sippy Cup: Beer Holder

JeanneSager — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:36:00 GMT

Apparently no one told Virginia Neel Blaker you aren't supposed to put carbonated beverages in a sippy cup. They didn't tell her not to serve beer to a toddler either. Oh yeah, and not to do it front of the police.

The New Mexico mom hit the trifecta in the competition for Dopiest Mom in America this week when a group of undercover officers were at her home to buy drugs from Neel-Blaker and her husband, James Blaker. First officers said they watched her give the couple's 18-month-old daughter a sip of beer from a can. Then she grabbed the baby girl's sippy cup and filled 'er up - "to make the baby sleep."

Perhaps she read Brett's post last week asking if anyone out there really thinks it's a good idea to give a 4-year-old a brewski? The cops said previous purchases of heroin and marijuana at the house, plus her offers to have sex with them for $100 apiece, suddenly took a backseat to the child abuse in front of them. Gee, you mean a mom who trafficks heroin out of her family's home isn't mother of the year material?

The little girl has been taken into custody by New Mexico authorities while her parents are in jail. At least one of us will be sleeping better.

Image: SF Gate

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Kids and Coffee: Is Your Child a Ca-fiend?

makeitadouble — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:01:00 GMT

Since our oldest son was two and a half years old his morning breakfast routine has been the same: on the couch in his pajamas, the TV turned to PBS, a waffle or ½ a bagel in one hand and a sippy cup filled with PediaSure and a splash of coffee in the other. Initially the shot of Folgers was just a way to trick him into drinking the PediaSure since he’d been begging us for months to have some coffee.

At the time he was only in the fifth percentile for weight and the doctor told us it was an effective way to extra calories and vitamins in him so we figured we’d risk the caffeine addiction if it meant he might someday weigh more than Calista Flockhart. Now that he’s five years old though, his morning cup of Joe has become more of a habit than a surreptitious way to supplement his diet and I’ve recently been questioning whether I should switch him to herbal tea, decaf or simply phase out the dark roast flavor shot altogether.

Parenting Magazine recommends parents avoid giving caffeine to a child in any form until they are at least six as it is a more potent stimulant to children than adults with even the smallest amounts making them jittery and raising their heart rate and blood pressure even several hours later. Even beyond the Grande Skim Triple Shot Caramel Sippuccino we ply our child with during Curious George, Parenting Magazine reminds us that caffeine lurks in other places, like chocolate, sodas, coffee-flavored ice cream, and yogurt; And for the record Dollar Store Energy Drinks that taste like room temperature fermented apple cider cut with Triaminic also have caffeine in them.

Admittedly the boundaries of my caffeinated permissiveness with my brood (brewed?) were tested when Starbucks began offering new drinks and smaller sizes to appeal to a younger clientele and also when they marketed plastic kid cups that exploded into an adorable dirty bomb of bite-size polyethylene shrapnel when dropped, but it wasn’t like they were establishing kiosks in my son's elementary school next to the book return outside the library, right?

So what’s your position on coffee and kids? Bottomless Sippy Cup? No more for me thanks? Free Refills?

Labeling Your Steel Sippy Cups

Patti — Wed, 30 May 2007 22:28:00 GMT

This may be craftiness gone too far, but what are you going to do with a sippy cup that only comes in one style, that everybody is suddenly bringing to the park, and that even a Sharpie won't stick to? You make jewelry for it.

Thingamababy's got the goods, if you're a Kleen Kanteen owner who'd rather not spend $16 bucks every time you can't tell your sippy from the rest when you're packing up the sand toys and heading home from the playground. Or if you have a lot of Inner Martha that needs channeling. It's a cute idea, really.

But me, my Martha mojo has enough outlets already, and besides, I'm still merrily risking my children's lives with Nalgene bottles. And if I were to start taking responsibility for the amount of bisphenol my children are ingesting, I'd probably laze out and go Sigg. So pretty.

(photo credit: Thingamababy)

Strollerderby Playdate: Sippy Cups Are from Hell Edition

Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:05:00 GMT

Emmeline will not use a sippy cup. She'll play around with it for a bit -- maybe, if I'm lucky, she'll pretend to put it to her lips and then in an instant fling it to the floor. In the very beginning of trying to get her off the bottle, I didn't worry too much about it. But now I'm harboring fears of packing her off to college with a box of books, a fresh pair of pants and a bottle warmer.

So I did what any other parent would do in these times of crisis: head to the blogosphere, hoping I'm not the only one going through this. I'm not. Sippy cups are a scourge on humanity -- whether they're simply ignored or hurled across the room.

Daddy Diary knows a thing or two about sippy cup fastballs.

As My World Turns thankfully has someone to clean up after spilling a sippy cup.

Life's Crazy Sometimes reminds us that mastering the sippy cup is not permanent.

A Mother's Monologue says bottles and sippy cups are enough to create multi-generational feuds. Kind of.

Nap time is almost over now. Time to refill the sippy cup and prepare myself for battle.

Babble Talk: Nuby Victorious in "Battle Sippy Cup"

Stefania Pomponi Butler (CityMama) — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:21:00 GMT

Babble's Nicole Feliciano recently put five popular brands of sippy cups to the test, and the brand that came out of top—beating out better known brands Playtex and Gerber—is the candy-colored Nuby.

Feliciano likes that the Nuby has no valves or straws, and frankly, I do, too. Washing crusty sippy cups is one of those crap duties of parenting that no one ever tells you about.

Personally, I'm a fan of the Evenflo insulated straw cups, they don't seem to get as grungy, and they hold enough liquid to quench a thirsty preschooler's thirst. What about you? Got any sippies you'd to recommend?