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: 12/8/2005 5:48:00 PM Author: mosquito - from Australia Subject: Ive just an idea - whether it works or n... I've just an idea - whether it works or not is a different matter!!! In front of your daughter, so she can see you doing it, pour the milk (formula) from her normal bottle into a sippy cup and hold it for her while she drinks (with her help if possible). In the same position as she has a bottle unless it leaks too much!!!!!!! Then, over some days, she can drink it while sitting on your lap then moving to her regular chair. When (not if!!!) she gets used to that start slowly introducing regular milk into her diet. I hope this helps! - she might be using the bottle as an independence thing. Toddlers often take big steps forward in their development towards being independant and then regress backwards (to confuse us!!!!) I know that you give her cuddles and hugs and attention, but can you do the same things with her as you do when giving her a bottle (but without a bottle) so that she realises that she won't be losing the cuddles when she stops having the bottle. Does that make sense??? Maybe make it around the time when she normally has the bottle, so that she makes the association easier. All the best - Name: Email: Subject

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