My kid wore a bib until age 3. He has motor issues.

11-12 months.

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, my kid is almost 3 and still wears one when she's eating something that is guaranteed to stain or something that's messy (yogurt, applesauce).

+1 and this will continue as long as possible! Heck I sometimes throw on an old dark colored shirt on myself when eating spaghetti!

Anonymous wrote:I changed clothing as often as needed. We'd easily go through several outfit changes a day with a reflux baby/toddler. It wan't a big deal. Get colored onesies if it is an issue. Their clothing is small. Its not a big deal to wash. We used a bib as long as we could but not with a two year old.

It's a big deal when your laundry is in the basement of your building and you don't have the money to buy 21 outfits (3/day for 7 days) for your child.

We stopped using a bib once most of my daughter's teeth came in and she stopped drooling everywhere. She was about one. For food, bibs were a waste of time. It's like she knew what we were up to and wasn't having any of it. She'd take the food and rub it underneath the bib or on her pants.

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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.

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.

DD is 22 mos and wears one for most meals, maybe not quite so much for lunch if shes having a sandwich.

I like thet fact it catches food, especially when were out, so were not dropping food on a restuarant floor.

My 3yos still wear a bib, especially at breakfast. They get dressed upstairs when they wake up, and we eat breakfast at home before preschool. If they spill cereal-milk or syrup on their clothes, I would have to change them. So we use bibs instead. They don't protest.

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.

Ikea has great nylon shirt/smocks to put over clothing. I have been using that since DC was 1 yr to avoid a clothing change after every meal. They can also double duty for art projects.

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/70179754/

Probably about 18 months - he pulled it off. He is now 2.5 and pretty good at getting food in his month and has been for the last 6 months or so. Occasionally he will make a mess but he knows about table manners an dhow to eat properly and that making a mess isn't acceptable so it really isn't a big issue. I've never really thought that playing with food and throwing it etc is very funny so we have always reinforced how to eat properly.

Certainly by 2, you aren't going to be changing clothes 3 times a day - only when they make a mess. For us it is maybe twice a week I change him after he eats.

Bib when we're home but not when we're out (too lazy to remember to bring one). DS is almost 2 and really likes his Bjorn bib. He asks for it before he starts to eat and then yanks it off when he is finished. It's pretty cute to me, plus that bib is just so easy to clean. We didn't use a bib with the older DC at this point and it's pretty obvious from all the stains on the old 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.

Personally, I prefer to just use a bib but when we get stains on nicer white stuff the bleach pen works wonders. It's saved a lot of money on things I would have otherwise thrown away because they looked so awful. It's lighter colored stuff that's the big problem in our house--too light to hide stains but not light enough to be bleached.

OP, I think the moral of this thread is: do what works for you. Obviously you are not the only one whose two-year-old wears a bib, and your DH is not alone in believing two is too old. Personally I'd rather have a kid wearing a bib than washing extra clothes or dealing with stains, but others may disagree and that doesn't make them wrong.