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Children - Speech Impediment
NOT THE BABY CUP!
Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but mothers with young children reckon disposable nappies and no spill cups are some of their best friends. You know, the no-spill cup: you put drinks in it, click on the top and you hand it over to your toddler with no worries about wetness down baby’s clothes or stains on the new carpet or the car upholstery.
You know what is about to come: I am going to give you bad news, aren’t I?
Yep! Hey, it’s not my fault! Blame it on the speech therapists. What has surfaced in the past few years is that kindergarten toddlers have been suffering from some serious speech impediments.
Why Is It So?
When children use those beaked cups instead of ordinary drinking glasses or cups, they suck and slurp instead of swill and gulp. In other words they are still sucking like babies instead of making their tongue and whole mouth work. As a result they get a lazy tongue, which cannot produce certain sounds, they speak as though they are sucking their thumbs: they can’t articulate very well. Try it: put your thumb in your mouth and speak, that’s what the kids do: their tongue behaves as if their thumb is permanently in their mouth.
But Wait, There’s More!
The other bad news comes from dentists: there has also been a huge increase in cavities in really young toddlers and this in spite of compulsory fluoridization of water. The problem here is not with the cup itself but the fact that young children tend to constantly suck on those cups and therefore keep coating their teeth with sugary drinks. In case you think that the fruit juice you give to your little angel is not a sugary drink think again: just because sugar comes from fruit it is still sugar and you should still not have constant contact with it.
What To Do!!!!
Does this mean that you need to throw away all those no-spill-sip-cups? Not exactly, as always a little thought can go a long way. Consider the following points:
Sipping cups are great to teach little babies to drink unaided and helps their hand to mouth co-ordination, so they are an excellent device to start with. When your baby can expertly take the cup to her or his mouth, drink and put down the cup all by themselves, it is time to graduate to swill and gulp. For this you use the same cup but you take off the top. When they get good at it, you can use a normal cup.
This is not just going to be good for their speech and their teeth (and remember speech therapists and dentists are not cheap) but also for their appetite and stomach. It is REALLY BAD for the digestion to have lots of fluids always pumped into the stomach, so don’t keep feeding liquids to the kids in no spill tumblers or otherwise, it’s simply not good for them and destroys their appetite.
Just like you would not keep training wheels on a kids bike forever make sure your child graduates from the no-spill cup and you will avoid a lot of unnecessary problems.
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