before sippy cups were invented....

[Anonymous]

1970s, started drinking from a cup at about 8 months. I had a metal cup with a handle. People didn't use to have water constantly at hand.

[Anonymous]

At my grandma's (up until 1969 when they moved to town) we drank water from a dipper from a white enameled metal bucket that would be hauled on a Radio Flyer wagon to the pumphouse by the barn to be filled.

Koolaid, which grandma called "nectar" (I think this was at one time an actual brand name for a product similar to koolaid), would be poured into 6-oz jelly glasses. When DS was little I had a bunch of those although I don't recall where they came from. They were ideal for a toddler to learn to drink from a glass. The glass was thick and the diameter was small so easy to control. And had Tupperware sippy cups.

That 1981 business--I know there were cups with tops before that and positive they existed in the 60s.

[Anonymous]

Public water fountains.

[Anonymous]

I saw a sippy cup in a 1950s Alfred Hitchcock hour show S1 E25 The Long Silence, so how did Richard Ballenger invent the Sippy cup?

[Anonymous]

My younger brother was born in 1971. I definitely remember his Tommee Tippee cups. They were two-handled and weighted at the bottom and came with an accompanying hard plastic insert that you used to drink out of.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1970s, started drinking from a cup at about 8 months. I had a metal cup with a handle. People didn't use to have water constantly at hand.

Exactly...water bottles did not exist. Kids might use a water fountain at school but most only had a drink at lunch...the milk container.