They Just Don't Get It...

[Meeko]

How much you want to bet that even if you did that, it would get stepped on and completely ignored?

I'm imagining everything you said, plus one of those lighted arrows that flash and a computer's voice constantly repeating "put sippy cups here, put sippy cups here" once it detects movement at the door. What do you think!? ::

Some parents would still think that was for everyone else and not them.......

[Unregistered]

When our parents do this we take the cup & put it in the refrigerator for later or to take back home when the child finishes with it. They have to sit at the table & finish it and when they're done, if its gone, I wash the cup & put in their cubby or place remainder in the fridge.

[blessedmess8]

This is very common.

The sippy cup represents ****ing, easy, sweet, baby, comfort, something to do to keep the kid from cyring.... etc.

So this is very valuable to the parent even though it has nothing to do with the child consuming liquids.

Maybe attach a sippy fee of a dollar a day. That would most likely quell it.

Just put out a note saying that begining next working day that such and such day care will charge a dollar a day fee for the management of personal sippy cups. This means you will receive, store, and return sippy cups for the cost of one dollar per day. If they would like you to provide liquids for the sippy cup it will be an additional dollar per day.

Five bucks a week per kid for storing and returning them and ten dollars per week for providing milk or juice, storing, and returning them should cover your expenses.

Haha! Love this.

[PitterPatter]

NOTHING FROM HOME! I tell them point blank NO sippys from home, keep them in the car or at home. I provide plenty to drink here, Milk, juice, water through the day. I would put a stop to it immediatley! I have fought my share of battles in the sippy cup war. At 1st I would bend a little and say ok but they are going to stay in the diaper bag because we have our own here. Then at pick up DCM would want me to fill the cups up with milk for the ride home. Sorry they just had snack they will live for the next 10 minutes it takes to get home! Another time a DCM picked up just after lunch to take DCB to the Dr and she pulled out the giant sippy cup, shook it, and handed it to me telling me DCB would need to have the cup filled so he could have a drink while waiting in the Dr office. I explained he JUST had lunch! She says, OK but he gets thristy. (so stop and buy a juice from the vending machine is what I think) I filled it with water and she asked if I was out of juice. I said I will be if I fill every child cup before they leave.

Honestly I think some parents just use those cups as a sort of power play or to keep getting free milk/juice. I quit, I suggest you not even start. Just my opinion.

[PitterPatter]

One firm NO is all it really takes to solve this problem entirely.

For the parents that "need" a cup for the ride home...they can take a clean cup, leave it in their car, stop at a convienience store and pick up something cold to fill it with. It would then be sitting in their carseat, waiting to greet them each day.

Some parents don't even have to stop at a store. Most places have vending machines right at the office. This is why I think some parents just want OUR drinks for FREE!

That is what Mommies do...plan for their childs needs. I have seen me do it many times. ::::

Exactly! ::

[sharlan]

I had one family that came in every morning with sippy cups. The family lived almost 40 miles away, Mom worked in my area. She would fill them with hot chocolate in the morning and I would fill them with juice in the afternoon for the ride home.

I never had an issue with it.

[Blackcat31]

sippy cups...bleh

[momma2girls]

I don't accept anything from home either-

[laundrymom]

I just take dump toss in sack for them to take home. It's in my contract they read, sign and return every aug. I never wash it either. The only exception is one girl who gets miralax each morning. She finishes hers. I put in cubby and move on with our day.