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SIPPY CUPS

Nothing, in my opinion, was more earth-shattering, paradigm shifting, than the invention of the sippy cup for children. The greatest inversion in child-rearing since Dr. Spock (whom, in my tender years, I mistakenly conflated with Mr. Spock, and Richard Speck, slaughterer of nurses, but that is a therapy session for a later date).

I will confess I put my kids on the sippy cup, because it was spill proof, a parent's greatest boon. But I will tell you: From breast to Binky to sippy cup, a child doesn't get properly weaned. They are still suckling at 5, 6 years of age.

No wonder there is so much Nipple Anxiety amongst our youth. This is just a theory, of course. I shall flesh it out, and report my findings. Looking for weaning theorists, by the way. 36 DD works very nicely for me.