To hate Tommee Tippee beakers?

[JimbosJetSet]

The free flow sort with the spout that folds down.

I can't put the lid on without squirting myself in the face with the contents.

I can't take the lid back off without a huge amount of effort.

They are not non drip so DD takes great delight in watering the sofa/floor/cat.

They only come in 3 different colours so every child has the same beaker as your own.

Can someone tell me it's a myth about the ones that are not free flow being bad for their teeth development (or something like that)?

I can get the lid off fine? (you are all weirdo flimsy wristed people )

My problem with them is that DS can close the lid but not reopen it. So he wanders off, puts the lid down, comes back to me 10 seconds later for me to reopen. Repeat ad infinitum...

Rocking yes my dd3 does this to her, wanders back to me with the bloody spout down saying eh eh and waving it at me with her bottom lip all puckered. So I put the spout up and then she wanders back 2 mins later...

I think the trick to getting the lid off is you must have the spout up.

I am a childminder and have may in a variety of colours - get squirted if I fill them too much... they are fab.

They are not all made the same though, there are several in our house...some are easy to get the lids off, others are stupidly stiff.

I can't be bothered with them anymore and get the screw top versions instead, they hold more (the small ones always needs re-filling).

I have a variety of sippy cups. My favourite are TT with the fold down lid for out and about and the TT sippy cup with the rigid mouth piece.

My HV warned that the non spill cups were resulting in crooked teeth. I think babies tend to bite down on them therefore the teeth slanted in the way.

I've tried sooking a non spill cup myself and it's not easy. They also tend to leak.

I'm another that recommends not filling the cup too high. No squirts this way!

I love them...have had them in various colours over the years. My kids actually drink out of them as opposed to simply dribbling juice out of the side of their mouths as they tend to do with other cups for some reason (and I have tried loads of cups!). I do hate the squirting thing when they are overfilled...but that doesn't put me off.

I like the really really cheap free flow ones with a solid spout. At least you know they will leak!

Bugger to actually find though.

If I suck the non spill cups they require so much suction that it makes my gums bleed

TT are fine. Just swap lids around and just use water, take it off them if they're sprinkling it everywhere!

icapturethecastle is right, you have to have the spout up otherwise you are fighting a vacuum as well as the tight fit (DH can't open them for this reason ). I can't open one without spilling the contents though, either.

How do you take the spout off to clean it? I have already thrown one lid away because of the black gunk, despite only ever putting water in it.

I just cleaned inside the spout by poking the bristles of a washing up brush up there. That seemed to dislodge stuff enough for a swish in hot soapy water to get it out. If in doubt, smell it, if it smells of mould you haven't cleaned it enough.

They get gunky because DCs tend to backwash all sorts of food into them

YABU I love them because of their quirky ways and because they are cheap

The dishwasher cleans them perfectly.