At what age did your child stop wearing a bib?

[Anonymous]

my kids never wore bibs.

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Anonymous wrote:We don't use one when we're out, but DD is 4 and doesn't object to wearing one if we're at home and it's going to be a meal that would stain like pasta or pizza. She wears one maybe 1-2x/wk and doesn't object.

OMG are you serious?! Your child is 4.

And? Doesn't bother her or me, and I save a lot of time, energy and money not worrying about that drip of jelly from a pb&j or smear of sauce from spaghetti or the popsicle tonight in celebration of the summery weather.

Same here. If we're eating something messy that could stain, I tie a napkin around her neck. Beats ruining clothes.

[Anonymous]

Around 2, we scaled back to just wearing a bib for messy breakfast, like anything dipped in jam. I didn't care as much about dinner, since the shirt was about to go in the laundry anyway.

That lasted until around 3. There was a transitional phase where he ate breakfast with a kid's apron instead of a bib, then eventually he phased out of that once he could get through 4-5 days without the apron needing a wash.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Around 2, we scaled back to just wearing a bib for messy breakfast, like anything dipped in jam. I didn't care as much about dinner, since the shirt was about to go in the laundry anyway.

That lasted until around 3. There was a transitional phase where he ate breakfast with a kid's apron instead of a bib, then eventually he phased out of that once he could get through 4-5 days without the apron needing a wash.

Me again - forget to mention, I did tuck a napkin into his shirt for another year or two after that if we were eating something really messy and he had on a shirt he really cared about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We don't use one when we're out, but DD is 4 and doesn't object to wearing one if we're at home and it's going to be a meal that would stain like pasta or pizza. She wears one maybe 1-2x/wk and doesn't object.

This (ours is also 4), except mostly just for soup.

Yet we eat soup out and it's not usually a huge mess... She doesn't 100% NEED it, but she doesn't mind it, so w/e. When I was a kid, I tucked my napkin into my collar until I was at least 8. Oh, well.

[Anonymous]

Oh, now I realize this was a zombie thread and read the post that revised it. Yikes.

[Anonymous]

I still put a bib on my almost 4 year old at home. I don't want stains all over his clothes.

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Anonymous wrote:My son didn't use a bib (he would pull them off, and we didn't care enough to insist). At home, we often took off his shirt before meals. When out, we wiped him off and changed his shirt if needed (it usually wasn't necessary).

Both of mine would pull them off and toss on the floor. Oh well, thats why we have washing machines.

NP here. So what about whites clothes? My 13 m/o has ruined a bunch of white onesies when we didn't use a bib. Also, do you really change your DC's clothes 3x a day? No way I'd do laundry that often.

There's this thing called bleach...

[Anonymous]

Our new daycare doesn't use bibs. We still use at home.

[Anonymous]

My Five and 3 year olds still use bibs at home and napkin-bibs at restaurants. Not at preschool.

[Anonymous]

We've decided to put one back on, because at 7, DD likes to wear nice clothes and it's too bad she's still so messy!

In France, even adults sometimes discreetly wear their napkins to protect their clothes. So for us it's not a big deal.

[Anonymous]

Around 18mo. Daycare taught him to eat with utensils. His hands and face still get messy, but he doesn't ruin shirts at age 3. He hasn't worn a bib at daycare since 15mo and the only times his shirt is messy is on tomato soup day.

[Anonymous]

My older child close to 3 because we didn't know any better and she didn't object. My younger child 15 months because she hates them.

[Anonymous]

My 10 and 12 year old boys wear a paper napkin tucked in their shirt collar when eating messy foods like BBQ and spaghetti. Neither one complains about it and their shirts remain clean and stain free.

[Anonymous]

My just-turned 5yo and 3yo still wear one. They are not neat diners. It's better for me this way.