When did you stop using bibs?

[LucyJones]

I was quite shocked to see a 3 year old wearing a bib the other day!!

When ds was around early 2s. He used to moan and rip them off. I've since taught him to use a serviette .

I was a bad mum and rarely remembered anyway My mum has an 'apron' for dd to wear when shes around there (it used to belong to my little sister whose now 25). think I must take after my dad.

DS had a plastic pelican bib - he stopped using it when I put it down on the gas ring with the gas on. Couldn't be bothered to replace it. Was about 2 1/2.

DD still wears hers quite a bit and she is almost 3 but it is her choice and I don't carry one round with me. But she insists on a napkin tucked into her collar. So will probably still be wearing it when she is 3. Both DC have aprons for cooking and if they are eating something messy just before we are going out or with a white top they wear them.

My DS2 would wear a plastic pelican type bib for eating messy food, right up until the age of 3, purely because it sometimes saved his clothes from the bin!
I wouldn't take a bib out with me, but would put one on him in the house, just to save some of the mess!
He was the one who decided to do away with the bib, not me! He suddenly announced he didn't want it because he was a big boy & that was that!
I have recently had to throw out a nice light coloured top, which was still covered in something orange after several washes. Bring back the bib!!

DD's bib is just hung on her chair and she chooses whether or not to wear it.

My 2 and half yr twins have to wear a bib if they are eating coloured stuff...tomato soup, fabs, red pasta sauce......i hate spoiling their clothes with food! they have the choice though, they can take their tops off if they like..and then they go straight in bath.

Wow! I was actually going to start a similar thread as DS (21 mths) has started refusing to wear a bib & goes mad as soon as he sees it. We have just spent a week with his cousins who are all over 5 and I think he noticed that they didn't have them. He doesn't eat too messily but yoghurt is a bit of a disaster! Think I'll have to strip him off because the amount of washing he is producing now is getting ridiculous. I like the idea of trying him with a serviette - I'll give it a go!

can't remember with DS1 - seemed to be forever. DS2 we used 'bibs' for a few months - then discarded then in favour of old tea towels tucked into his collar/tied (loosely I may add) behind his neck - didn't matter if they got filithy and stained as they would only have been chucked anyway