In our case, its my husband! He is real rough on his waterbottles and we all hate to have him use our water bottles. I give him the mineral bottle. (sorry, I don't want teeth marks on my nice pink klean canteen)

Like a few PPs, I have one child who chews on spouts, and one who doesn't. The chewer ruined a bunch of spouts on various sigg water bottles, and all the cheap freebies that we get. Now he's only given the Gatorade bottles (they squirt, no opening or closing of a spout) and other ones that have flip tops because he won't chew on them. My other DS is allowed to use any water bottle in the house. Generally, water bottles are interchangeable for all four of us, just no one wants to put their mouths on a spout that is all rough and coming apart because someone (DS2) has been chewing on it.

Anonymous wrote:Op here. Exactly. MY mother (who is over for the week from out of town) supported their decision when they complained at breakfast before heading out camp! She had to pipe in saying that as they get older, we should no longer treat them as kids and force them to share things! What??!!

Sounds like your mom just offered to make the purchase for you!

Maybe it's just me, but my kid has more than one water bottle, we switch out everyday. So why do your children only have one?

This is not a water bottle rant! It is about parenting and the granny!

I can't even believe this thread deserves a second page!

My eldest daughter (13) is also a water bottle chewer while her younger siblings are not. So i try to seperate her drink spout (klean kanteens only come in one color) from her younger Siblings. They complain when she chews on their bottles not so much because they dont want to share but rather they don't like her awful habit. I think its fair reason to accomodate such requests. So OP maybe find out why they don't want to share?

We have siggs and klean kanteens and no child officially owns them in our family but I try to put the right nozzle for the right child. I wash them frequently enough so could tell by the Teeth marks which belong to which child.

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Anonymous wrote:Op here. Exactly. MY mother (who is over for the week from out of town) supported their decision when they complained at breakfast before heading out camp! She had to pipe in saying that as they get older, we should no longer treat them as kids and force them to share things! What??!!

That is ridiculous. My two daughters don't even have their own socks. All socks for both girls go in one drawer and they belong to both. Your daughters are being spoiled and it would not fly in my house. They can hand wash the nozzles if it's that much of a problem, but those would be the only water bottles they'd get.

Yes, a parent after my own heart! My kids have KK waterbottles and I never store them with lids so they don't get bacteria so they belong to none. AND my kids share socks. I buy all matching socks, in two styles: one long dress, and one short/sporty because I can't bear to sort.

At 11 and 9 if they don't like their nozzles they can wash and assemble the bottles themselves. Sometimes my son's bottle ends up with his sister's pink mouthpiece. You get what you get and don't get upset. By your kids' ages, they can be responsible for their own bottles.

My older daughter is a "mouth washer" drinker. You know those that drink and leave all the food particles in the cup. She also bites her bottle when she drinks. So even us adults avoid her nozzle After it comes out from the dishwasher. Even though we don't label, I will look at the nozzle and she will always get hers back. Her two other siblings do not chew and I can't tell the difference so They get mixed up with ours. I don't think It's too much to ask to have things separated. But to insist for a new one maybe over the top unless they can earn it themselves.

I myself hated sharing with my sister because she is just unhygienic and dirty. She has BO from a young age and I hated to share my coat, my clothes etc with her but our mom just ignored my request to separate. Even her backpack and pen case always had ants in them. Yuck.