Thinking I’ve birthed a mini Genius!

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(Okay you’ll all find this dull, I posted in parenting but got no replies ) so here I am shamelessly for traffic, light hearted thread! Also needed a goady title to catch your eye!

So put your guns, poison, knives and pitch forks away!

My dd 11 months and has been practising with an open cup through play from around 4 months. (She held her bottle at 3 months, I used to have to express for her dad to have her)

Anyway she’s been drinking from open baby cup successfully since 8 months, in the last two weeks she’s managed to drink and hold any shape cup or glass, drink it without spilling it. (Obviously supervised with glasses and that was more for fun)

It’s a small milestone but I’m just chuffed, it’s like a party trick. Wondering when yours drank from an open cup? If if they met any other milestones early and what they were?

I bet dd isn’t the only one. I remember googling like mad when she first started holding her bottle ☺️

What did your mini geniuses do and when?

I’m laying in bed with downtown Abby
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V competitive friend of mine annoyed people by mentioning Oxbridge when her dc was 3 and "obviously" cleverer than all the other kids. She had the last laugh though as her dc is at Cambridge now. Maybe you have indeed bred a genius.
I kept dc on beakers for years as far too precious about my furnishings sadly.

I'm a genius also (I'm 48) when I was very small I was famed throughout my whole family the world for biting the side out of every glass I was given - be careful op!

It isn't quite as dull as the discussion one of the mums tried to start at our playgroup Christmas night out years ago, about how best to get stains out her toddler's socks, but you are entering the same territory. For goodness sake don't talk about this at parties.

My kids are 8 and 10, I still don't trust then with open cups.

PFB?

DD1 picked up a 20p coin several times between finger and thumb when she was 12 weeks old. I was convinced she was some sort of prodigy.

She is now a very normal 9 year old who is extremely clumsy!

DS 13mo can use an open cup (can’t remember for how long, we’ve used them since 4 months) but her can also tip the contents onto his tray and shout ‘splash, splash!’. Same reason he isn’t usually given his Tommy Tippee Free Flow cup either.

I don't remember when DD1 first drank successfully from an open cup but I do clearly remember the day she worked out how to get a McDonalds milkshake through the straw and into her mouth.

The look of delight on her face was unforgettable.

Op it’s quite normal for breasted babies to drink from an open cup at six months. Am confused as to why you would think 8 months was “ advanced “.

My 11 month old started walking at 7 months old. He’s now an expert at throwing a rugby ball around and running after it.
I was overly proud and excited when he started, 4 months later and it’s a chuffing nightmare 😤 I’ve lost count of how many times he’s climbed on the sofa and smashed one of his brothers in the head with a ball he’s thrown.

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I never let ds have anything without a top until he was about 3, he was so careless & clumsy. I would have been mopping up day & night.

DS came out of the womb holding a doidy cup.

Op it’s quite normal for breasted babies to drink from an open cup at six months.
Am confused as to why you would think 8 months was “ advanced “.

As well as having glossier hair and more supple skin than ff babies. 😂

I think I kept on giving them bottles long after that - so they didn't spill drinks all over the house ! They are both in their 30's now, and both can drink from an open cup so I don't think I did them any lasting damage.

PFB?

100% without a doubt!

Mine went to a Montessori nursery, they insisted on only giving the babies open cups and proper cutlery from the start (the 6 - 18m class). They all sat around little low baby height tables laid out properly with metal knives and forks and shot sized glasses for water and milk. They got the older ones to pour the water/milk from little jugs.

@MonChatEstMagnifique the reason BF babies do it is because they weren’t introduced to a bottle early and often refuse them, preferring cups. Not because breast milk has made them geniuses

Anyone else not twig about Downtown Abby and waste 30 seconds of your life genuinely trying to remember if it was an American drama about a rough diamond kind of hooker figure?

Just me then.....

2.5 year old DD switched from English to French between me and DH tonight.

Now that's impressive

Downton57 I'm usually the one eye-rolling at tea-spitting MNers, but my phone very nearly got a healthy spray of gin! Why on earth would you stain remove a sock??! I was lucky if my toddlers ever wore 2 socks for more than about 30seconds, let alone a pair! I was the mum that all the old ladies would stop in the supermarket to tell me that DS must have cold toes... You try putting socks on him!!!!

OP I frequently attempt from an open cup, miss my mouth completely and pour tea down myself. I would also be a MENSA member if I hadn't lost the paperwork. I'm 29 HTH

Slow clap

And I can't type properly either. I'm going to blame the gin for that