Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 1/11/2004 9:47:00 AM Author: iggy (bigddog803@go.com) Subject: a mom yep, I broke the bottle habit. After 15 months, no more bottles. We looked everywhere in the kitchen. They were gone! All the boys could find were sippy cups where their bottles were. They looked to no avail, they were so busy lookng for the bottles they had no time to fuss. They started with tears, I told them to look (under the coffee table for example). And I paid no attention to the fuss. And I am now a infant/toddler specialist. The bottles are harder to get rid of as the child gets older. I have seen horrid consequences with kids on a bottle after they start walking. Just as you eat, bottles should be at meals AT THE TABLE or if an adult is feeding them in their arms. You deviate, you are setting yourself up for trouble. I've seen kids walking around with their bottle, put it in their mouth and fall causing serious damage to their palate and teeth. Then there is baby bottle tooth decay. It is just awful. Off the subject of diapers, but it is just one step to either you getting control in the home, or your child controling the home. I'm not saying dictator, but that the child knows YOU are the boss. Name: Email: Subject

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