Hints for toddler to use cup?

[Wednesday]

Does anyone know any tricks to get my toddler to start using a cup? I am having difficulty, as he will tip the whole thing all over him? Likes a straw cup but I have been told to start encourging him to use a lid less cup.
Any ideas would be appriciated

[Snowy Love]

Start in the bath! Not as crazy as it seems - might not work though. DS practices drinking from a cup in the bath - I try to make sure its clean water, not the bath water but some bath water gets swallowed.

I give him a cup with just a tiny amount sometimes when he sits at the table and don't worry too much if it spills (and don't react to avoid the game of spill the water so Mum freaks and cleans it up)

[BeautifulMadness]

practice and alot of it lol

[butterflykissez4mum]

my girls dont drink from a cup very often, usually if i have not got their drink bottles with me they will try the cup. to be honest im not to worried about it because i was told by my dentist that its better for their teeth to drink through a straw or sipper. all the sugars from juice or cordials ect does not coat the teeth when using a straw ,so healthier teeth.

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

DS watches and copies me. And big children at nursery (I have to introduce everything so early otherwise I miss it!).

What I do is give him his cup (plastic with a dinosaur on) and his sippy cup. I pour a little bit of water from the sippy into the big-boy cup. DS then drinks from his cup. DS then pours himself another drink. Yes, it's a bit messy but it's only the high-chair tray, that's wipe-clean.

Also, right from the start he has drinks in an adult glass sometimes (usually because I forgot his sippy cup, bad mother rather than proactive mother). I hold it and he holds it and he drinks - but I keep him from slopping all the water all over him. Doesn't work now, I'm not allowed to touch the glass, but he has learnt not to pour water down himself.

He doesn't get any sugars on his teeth from juice because we don't drink juice!

[Curly]

Try a really big cup with only a small amount in it. Always more accidents if the cup is over half full, it slops out in a big rush!