OUR BATTLE OVER WEANING NICO FROM THE BOTTLE
Everyone’s been pressuring us (most especially my Mom) to already wean Nico from the bottle. Since Nico is already three-year old, they commented that it’s about time to train him to drink milk from a cup. Jun and I know for a fact that ideally, kids of Nico’s age should already be drinking for a cup and no more from a bottle (although somewhere across a forum in Baby/Parents Center, there was a debate over WHEN and HOW to wean a child from the bottle). However, we are quite guilty for being not that really eager to wean our preschooler.
We attempted training Nico as early as one year old by buying him a sippy/trainer cup. But I guess our parenting powers weren’t that enough to convince him at that time that we gave up so easily. And so, we continue to put off our weaning task on a later date as we thought all of us in the family will be having the worst of both worlds. That is, Jun and I getting angry and frustrated (over not being successful in weaning) and making Nico’s life miserable without his beloved bottle. In fact, we almost forgot about the weaning thing for months that we even planned to buy Avent’s Magnum 330ml (11-oz) bottle since Nico is most often bitin with Avent’s regular 260ml (9-oz). Continue Reading »
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