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To my amazement my husband, who was a stay at home dad at that time, transitioned my sons to a sippy cup. I had never seen it happen so easily but he had a very ingenious little idea. One that I admittedly would have never thought of.

He began the transition soon after the boys started eating baby food regularly. Of course, the boys didn't want anything to do with the cups at first. My husband realized that it was hard for both of my sons to figure out how to suck the right way when moving from a bottle to a sippy cup.

As we know all sippy cups have the insert inside them to make them spill proof. Sometimes though, when they are brand new they can actually hold a little too much suction for our little guys that are new to cups. So, my husband decided to pull that insert out, not permanently of course, so that the boys could easily see the point of the cup.

He would do this only when the boys were well supervised at their feeding times, and he would help them drink from it so they didn't get flooded with juice or water. To my surprise it only took a few days for the boys to actually want to try to get juice out. That was when we put the insert back in full time.

This trick may not work for all parents, let's face it not all tricks can work for everyone. But, for my boys they were content with several styles of cups. We didn't have to buy anything special, we just let them figure out what was in it, and they were happy. I admit I did not have the money to buy all kinds of different sippy cups. This gave us a little more determination to make the ones we could afford to buy at the time work.

When my oldest son was about 2 years old when my sister-in-law was faced with the same problem with her son. It seemed no matter what she did, or how many types she offered him, he refused to drink out of his sippy cups. My husband showed her his little trick and it worked just as well as it had with our sons. Once he figured out it was the same juice as what he got in his bottle then he was happy to drink from it.

Once they were used to the cup, we cut them back to bottles only for milk at nap time and bed time. From there we slowly started using cups for nap time milk. Once that was successful then we did the same with the night time bottles. Both of my sons were rid of bottles before a year old and the word "baba" was never a problem. Thanks mostly to my husband's subtle idea. Sometimes the simplest of things can work so well.

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