Slate compares and ranks 5 sippy cups for toddlers. The best, they say, is the Nalgene Grip-n-Gulp Bottle—at about $8 it's also the second cheapest of the lot. [Slate]
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@pecan 3.14159265: And that too the second cheapest of the lot. Theres 3 more which are more expensive.
My sister gave my mom so much grief with the bottles and sippy cups, that my mom didnt even use them on me. [It was much easier for her to do that, being a full time housewife.]
no thanks, I'll spend $8 on 3-5 sippy cups that don't leak as well as these high-dollar jobbies.
I buy $2/two sippies from Walgreens for my kids. The person who would buy ANY of these obviously has more money than common sense.
These are all ridiculous...
As a parent, the only thing I need my kid's sippy cups to do is be leak-proof. the $0.99 Nuby from the local drug-store does that just fine.
All those buying cheap cups- are they BPA free?
@pecan 3.14159265: Yeah, wow, what happened to simple plastic cups with simple plastic tops?
I could see maybe getting one of these for on-the-go, but for everyday?
(And Nalgene/Sigg ... why can't I have a sippy TOP that fits onto my regular bottle?)
@ncboxer: The ones I have are. They're the semi-opaque, flexible semi-opaque plastic (is it PP?).
BPA is used in the rigid, clear nalgene-type plastics.
From our experience neither name brands or cost has anything to do with quality of the sippy cup. We have settled on one specific type of gerber cup that does not leak and cleans up easy, not very expensive either.
We have that exact Nalgene cup, bought for less than was listed there, and let me tell you it does not leak at all! It's gold Jerry!
It appears that the SUV stroller mentality has hit the sippy cup market as well.
There are a lot of $8+ sippy cups out there now. Leakproof sippy cups are perfect for small children who are permitted to wander about at will with food and drink in hand, and parents who refuse to teach their children to sit at a chair/table and eat & drink properly. On a recent trip to Mexico I was engaged by a 2 year old boy who could hold a standard 16-oz cup in his hands and drink without spilling a drop.
Pssh, I have the Gerber jobbies. I don't want a cup that will make me cry when the dog chews on it.
Wow, we just bought 2 sippies for $2 each, and they were BPA free and don't leak. What are people thinking . . . wait, nevermind.
We had some random cheap ones when she was very young, and then from the time she was about 3, we got the ones from Target with Dora on them that are about the size of an adult glass, because we were out of the house a lot, and we liked the idea of her always having her own water bottle. At the table, we never used sippy cups past the age of two.
$8 for a sippy cup? When I was a kid, I had a collection of free plastic cups gathered from various restaurants, and a warning to be very careful. I was not very careful, and instead of drinking my juice, I often wore it.