Most children at an early age do not know how to drink from a cup, spilling more of its contents. Parents are looking for different ways to teach their baby, but it takes time. Therefore, it is worth considering several ways that will help you quickly accustom your child to the cup.
Instructions
Step 1
The first way is to make the child want to imitate you, i.e. hold the cup yourself correctly and drink from it, while portraying the pleasure of the process. Thus, you set an example for the child and if the child is interested, he will follow him.
Step 2
If the child does not have a desire to imitate, or he does not succeed, you can explain to him in detail how to hold the cup correctly. For starters, given that a cup can be heavy for a child, it is worth teaching him to hold the dishes with both hands. At the same time, it is highly discouraged to fill the container with hot liquid in order to avoid injury during training. You also need to fill the cup not to the brim, but first half, so that the child can feel it.
Step 3
Further, when he is already a little older, you can start learning how to hold with one hand, showing where to put your fingers correctly. But the whole point is that the child should feel the cup, its heaviness, because on the example of an adult, not all children will succeed right away.
Step 4
It also often happens that a child who does not know how to drink from a cup drinks drinks from the throat, which is also not pleasant for everyone from the point of view of aesthetics. Therefore, in order to accustom a child to a cup, it is worth choosing not an ordinary container, but a special one, made for children, with some interesting pattern. If the cup arouses interest in the child, then he himself will strive to learn how to use it correctly.
Step 5
Once you have started training, it is worth discarding all nipple bottles. Otherwise, the child will prefer the bottle, since it is more convenient to drink from it. Try pouring your baby's favorite juice into a cup, and plain water, for example, into a bottle. The child will understand that drinking from a cup is "tastier" than from a bottle.
