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From: suze@terak.UUCP (Suzanne Barnett)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Re: How do I get my kid off the bottle?!
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Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 12:18:07 EST
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> Since your child is 2 1/2, this should have been taken care of
> a long time ago.  You shouldn't give in and make it clear to the
> child that there is not going to be a bottle around for them.  

WHY? WHY? Why does everyone seem to think a child must give up
a bottle, a pacifier, a blanket, etc. by some certain age?
What does it matter to the parents? I can understand ensuring that
the child learns to use other skills, such as drinking out of
a cup, is good, and I can understand refusing to give a bottle of
anything other than water at bedtime for dental health
reasons. But why insist that the child cannot have a bottle
at all? The child will give up the bottle when s/he is ready.

(This is not directed specifically at the writer of the
quoted article, but at all the parents who have written in to
recommend ways to make the child give up a bottle. I truly
don't understand why, please enlighten me.)
-- 
Suzanne Barnett-Scott
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