Welcome advice needed from childminders on mindee's reluctance to move on from a sippy cup!

[Beck88]

I currenly mind a litte boy who I have had since he was 7months old, he turned 3 in June this year.
I also mind 2 other children younger than him who have been drinking from plastic cups for a while now.
As a bit of background he has always had the same sippy cup, with me and at home and refuses to drink from any other cup, including the same style and make but one of a different colour!
Now he is getting older and doing a few mornings a week I really wanted to get him to try and move him on a little.
Really struggling at the moment, I have tried giving him his usual cup but with no lid, when I try and put his hands on the handles he cries and starts tapping his head or his tummy with his hand.
I have tried all areas of praise and encourangement and not much improvement. I am really concerned that he seems so distressed by this and wonder how long he will be drinking out of a sippy cup for. His mum doesn't seem worried and isn't interested in discussing it.
I would appreciate any advice.

Never had this with any mindees but my own ds1 was just like this and up to this year (he's 8 in March!!! ) would only have milk in a sippy cup but fine with water in big cup (he only drinks water and milk). I think part of my problem was I had him on the bottle too long (big mistake, made sure ds2 was off by or around age 1) but also because he's a tad regimental like his dad! . I personally wouldn't force anything unless you can come up with something the parents are happy with themselves (i.e. oh dear, the other cup broke and we can't find another like it). With ds1, I'm sure in the end he continued with his sippy cup more because he liked being odd and winding mummy up LOL. I bet you what he's upset about is the 'change'. Some children don't do change very well at all. Does he attend or is he due to start attending sessions at a local nursery? Maybe then with the peer pressure, he'll be fine?

I think what MIGHT have helped us move ds1 onto a sippy cup at night instead of a bottle (and this was done too late ) was putting stickers all over it so it was 'special' to him.

Sorry not much help, thought the bump might help though :)

The only person that seems bothered that he is using a sippy cup is you, lots of children still use them. I really don't think its worth the upset, its really no big deal.
All you can do is offer alternatives but you can not force him to drink from them.
Why do you want him to move on ?

maybe put something he doesn't like in it (could be bit traumatic actually) and putting fav. drink in another one next to it and just leave him to it- no encouragement/hand directing since he's already so conscious of it being a 'thing'.

Maybe put grapes/cracker/biscuit in another cup so at least he is interacting with it and it becomes not so scary.

Say 'oh look its dirty and put in dishwasher. um where shall we put your juice?...i know...'

do water play in the sink with turning tap on and off and tipping in/out of plastic cups and he might just go for it.

get him to pour own drink from a jug into his cup and then into others from the same jug. pour between the cups.

thats it, no more ideas.