*We don’t have access to the photos of Suri with the bottle. To these photos, go to Us Weekly.*
This is one of those topics that can be absolutely explosive, but let’s talk about it anyway. Should a four-year-old child be drinking from a bottle, and is it anyone else’s business if a parent thinks this is ok? Case in point: little Suri Cruise, daughter of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise, who was recently photographed drinking a bottle on an outing with mom. Suri turns 4 soon, and doesn’t seem to be giving up the bottle any time in the near future. What are some of the risks of letting an older toddler like Suri continue to bottle feed – or is it really no big deal?
Suri Cruise — who turns 4 Apr. 18 — just can’t put down the bottle.
She was spotted drinking out of one Friday in New York City, where mom Katie Holmes is shooting the crime-thriller Son of No One.
Last fall, experts told UsMagazine.com it was imperative for Holmes, 31, and husband Tom Cruise, 47, to wean their daughter off the bottle.
“By the time kids are nine-months old, they have the physical development and mouth coordination necessary to be able to drink out of a sippy cup or a cup with straw,” said Dr. Jennifer Shu, a pediatrician and co-author of Food Fights. “That development comes pretty early.”
Shu told Us she didn’t “know why” Cruise and Holmes still allowed their daughter to drink from one. “You don’t force kids to crawl when they can walk,” Shu told Us.
But Dr. Harvey Karp — a pediatrician, child development specialist and creator of the DVD and book, The Happiest Toddler on the Block — said it isn’t a huge deal.
“Sucking is normal for kids when they are tired or bored,” he told Us, “as long as kids aren’t keeping the bottle in their mouths for hours.”
I’m a mom who has breast and bottle-fed two babies. I did a lot of research about weaning when my daughters were infants. The consensus between the experts and my own pediatrician was that bottle feeding once a child has a full set of teeth is detrimental and not necessary, since a child with teeth doesn’t need to get their nutrients from formula or breast milk anymore. There’s also the risk of cavities associated with bottles. Of course, that medical advice doesn’t take into consideration the emotional attachments often associated with the bottle: many kids view their “ba-ba” as a source of comfort just like a blanket or a pacifier. This may be what’s going on with Suri, who despite her “mature” appearance, still carries a blanket around as well.
As for my opinion, it’s simple: bottles are for babies, and a four year old is not even close to being a baby. Ideally, as a parent, you wouldn’t let a situation like this happen in the first place. I don’t think Katie and Tom are doing their child or themselves any favors by indulging her on the bottle- they should ask their good friend and fellow Scientologist Leah Remini how that fared for her.
It’s a bad look but I’m not judging, whatever works. A sippy cup/bottle with a straw might be more age appropriate. Suri’s probably going to need therapy anyway, a bottle at 4 is likely the least of her issues.
A blanket or favorite stuffed toy is fine, but I think at this age a child should not be using a bottle or pacifier. Just my two cents, FWIW.
Occasionally, I still drink from the bottle. Mine comes out of the liquor cabinet though. 🙂
And, yes, way too old for a bottle.
Something about her legs looks off…I can’t put my finger on it. Or maybe that’s just how little girls’ legs look? I dunno.
Anyway, about the bottle. I don’t think it’ll have any effect on her except for maybe embarrassing her later in life when her parents tell that story to her boyfriends.
I kept using my pacifier until I was probably about 5 or maybe even 6, and it fucked my teeth up somethin’ fierce. Almost three years of braces and I still have a killer overbite I can fit most of my tongue through. That said, a pacifier is used WAY more than a bottle. With a bottle, you drink it and you’re done. You don’t keep the nipple part between your teeth for hours at a time like with a pacifier. So yeah, I think she’s fine.
There are some kids who get breastfed until they’re 8, 10, 11…I have to imagine that fucks up a kid waaaaaaaay worse.
This is as ridiculous as arguing that the Jolie-Pitt children are too old to suck their thumbs. It’s irrelevant, isolated in a couple of photos, and speaks nothing about the kids. It’s a great way to diagnose from the safety of a computer desktop. I don’t always think that celebs are the greatest parents of all time, but I don’t get the constant need to prove that they suck as caretakers because they indulge them in a blanket or some ice cream. Perhaps, upon leaving the house, Suri threw a fit and wanted to have her drink from a bottle. As a parent, you pick your battles and the insignificant whims of your kid can really break you sometimes. That’s just one idea. Developmentally, Suri (and for that matter, most of the other kids in hollywood) seem healthy, happy and normal.
I’d drink out of a bottle too, if I had to live with those people. Nomesain?
Having a daughter exactly Suri’s age, I think it’s WAY too old. Of course it’s really none of our business, but this IS a celeb gossip website 😉 I wouldn’t be too concerned about the dental issue, but I do think that giving in on the bottle issue is a symptom of a larger problem. You can’t tell me that child is getting the proper, consistent and loving discipline that all kids need. If it was up to my daughter she would still be using a pacifier…does that mean I let her? Obviously not!
Who cares what she does?! I just want her to grow up so we can get a real idea of what insanity she lived in. She’ll be Britney times 100.
It will take the sting out of getting old. All the biographies by screwed up celebrity children. We can all meet here again in 20-25 years.
I think she’s too old but I believe in telling a child no sometimes. Also, maybe Katie & Tom find it more convenient to tote a bottle than cups.
I think it’s just the poses that make her legs look funny (at least I hope so).
I don’t see anything wrong with it and it’s really none of anyone’s business.
She’ll eventually let go of the thing. Her parents have enough money to get her braces if the bottle sucking messes up her teeth.
I never understood why people are so obsessive about how early to wean. I took no time at all-I barely did bottles but my older sister was still drinking from them when she was 5. It didn’t mess up her teeth and she’s a perfectly functional human being now.
I really think though that when a parent chooses to wean their child off of anything (bottles, breasts, pacifiers, thumbs, whatever) is really their business.
Oh my, look at that little model! I’m so in love with her and I’m looking forward to seeing her grow up. I’ve seen pretty kids growing to be ugly teenagers/ adults and ugly ones grown pretty. It has occured to me as some kind of formula so I’m kinda scared she’s going to lose her looks. I don’t even find her pretty – I find her extraordinary! I know it’s just my thing so you don’t have to tell me how ugly she is if that’s what you think lol 😉
Get off it. My brother was three and a half drinking from his bottle. He would only drink from it at home though; so one day our mum gave him his bottle to take to nursery school because we were running late. THAT was the day HE decided to stop because he was ashamed in front of the other little kids.
Bottom line, up until about 4 1/2, these kids are still slightly baby/toddlers. We force them to do things according to our/society’s timeline. It’s okay to just let them be. My brother has suffered no lasting effects from having bottle-fed up until a later than normal age. He is a great guy with a wonderful personality and smart as a whip. And this is not his sister saying this (because we butt heads like most siblings), this is every single person that he comes across saying this. From his professors to his friends to his girlfriends to his bosses.
Bottom-line, leave that damn little girl alone with her bottle 🙂
Oh and his teeth are his dentists’ dream! That guy has such straight teeth!
Im a mom of 2. And a pediatric nurse practitioner. Way too old for the bub. Problems are: Speech issues, dental issues, links to future smoking (im not kidding), unsanitary, increased risk of ear infections, need to find more mature ways of comfort.
Although I will say, the oral fixation that some kids have is a way to self soothe. Which poor Suri likely needs to do a lot of with her loony parents.
“As for my opinion, it’s simple: bottles are for babies, and a four year old is not even close to being a baby.”
It’s closer to baby than it is to being a grown kid. I swear Americans want these little kids to be mini adults. I almost want to cry when I see the poor little things struggling to carry shopping bags, struggling up the subway steps.
Oh Lord, here we go. Well I guess my brother is the exception to the norm because he has no speech issues, dental issues and like his sister does not drink or smoke.
Hey, at least it’s not as creepy as the moms who still breast feed them when they’re that age.
Errr… comment number 11 kinda creeps me out. Sounds a little obsessed but ok then..
Speech problems are the main thing I read in delaying bottle weaning. My pediatrician backed this too when we got our son on sippy cups (10 months i think) so.. just worth noting it’s way more than cosmetic/appearing ‘weird’ with prolonging bottle usage. That said I think it could well be she lives in a chaotic (paps all over, crowds/might have a crazy schedule compared to most tots with travel, etc) environment, considering. Maybe they allow her this indulgence to allay some of the stress? Eh. But 4 seems a bit old even so…
Feebee- 100% right on! This bottle is the least of her future problems.
Considering all the other things her parents probably have and will indulge her in over the course of her childhood, this is the least of the problems.
Bookishgal, relax- not saying these will all happen to everyone. Lucky him I guess.
Just like some people who smoke won’t get lung cancer, and obese people won’t all die of heart attacks and diabetes. But your odds are higher. Long term paci and bottle use can cause all the things I listed. These are facts. I can back all of them up.
Wow she is really adorable…and in my opinion way too old for a bottle. The bottle in itself isn’t the problem, but it just shows that they probably let her do whatever she wants. She’s going to be a bundle of joy when she gets older.
It is probably a huge comfort zone for her to have a bottle still. Look at her life…two celebrity parents who get hounded when they take her for a walk, so I can understand how the kid probably is freaked out and finds solace in her bottle.
I imagine katie and tom are easy going parents to begin with and would not want to ‘traumatize’ the kid by taking it away. Whatever…it is their kid and it’s not like she is smoking crack.
You can see so much of the Tom in her in the first picture, and so much of Katie in her in the second picture.
To those who think that the attachment to the bottle is the “least” of this child’s problems, I’d take it a step further and say that the continuous indulging of a child with the bottle is the first step in a long line of indulgences borne from being too busy or distracted to take the time to actually work with the child on weaning. It’s easier in the moment to cave into the child’s demands and crying for the bottle rather than explain, no more bottles, here’s a cup, or whatever. It’s not easy to be the disciplinarian when they are so little and cute, but if you don’t start doing it when they’re 4, good luck trying to lay down the law when they’re 8, 9, 10 and so on.
There’s no medical reason for a child to be drinking from a bottle at 4, or breastfeeding for that matter. It doesn’t mean we’re in a hurry for our child to grow up if we help them move on to the next phase of their development. It’s our job, quite frankly.
I used to teach preschool, a four year old is not a baby and most toddlers give up the ba-ba by the time they are four. I feel sorry for little Suri – her parents consider her a mini-adult but her every whim is catered to? What kind of mixed messages is she being fed, not to mention the xenu crap. Sadly, I agree with leek…
i am more worried about the fact that she inherited Tom’s nose.
My son still drank from a bottle at night until he was 5 or thereabouts. He’s 10 now and absolutely fine – no speech problems, no teeth problems, nothing. No it’s not “the norm” but nor is it worth getting totally worked up about. It’s not damaging them in any way. Frankly, I think there is too much emphasis on moving kids along to a timetable in our society.
blah: it’s very nasty to make comments like that about a child.
the parents however are fair game- suri still drinking from a bottle at that age just proves her parents spoil her rotten. well i guess they’ll be able to afford the braces in few years time.
Wouldn’t it be funny if she thinks it’s o.k. for her to suck a bottle because she sees a certain adult male sucking a bottle while wearing sci fi gear back at her home?
Maybe it is too old, but I doubt she’s going to have any lasting issues because she is too old to have a bottle. I had a bottle until I was in pre-school. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one because the teacher announced one day near X-mas that if we wanted gifts, we needed to put our bottles in a brown paper bag and give them to her to give to santa. I was probably around 4, maybe 5. I turned out just fine (don’t smoke, no speech issues, no dental issues). I think the biggest problem we have is that kids are doing things they are too young to do, not vice versa.
that poor child. she doesn’t have a chance. an apparent lack of discipline, she’s traumatized by the assholes stalking her, a truly unhinged father, and a robot mother.
“doesn’t seem to be giving up the bottle any time in the near future”
and you base this comment on what research and knowledge? because otherwise, it’s well, a shite comment.
a previous poster above said that her legs look odd. I just scrolled up to look at the photos. It looks like for her height, she has a short knee to foot distance. but she is still pretty anyway.
“There’s no medical reason for a child to be drinking from a bottle at 4, or breastfeeding for that matter.”
Maybe, but there’s no medical reason for her not to be drinking from a bottle. (I mean, besides the links to future smoking, of course.)
It might seem odd to still use a bottle at her age, but children are individuals who develop at different rates, just as parents are individuals who then chose how to raise them.
I find it funny how judgmental people become once they’ve had kids, as if their personal experience qualifies them to question another parents ability.
Not everyone has to do things at the same pace, and what seems normal for you might seem freakishly unnatural to someone else. It’s like the little Jolie-Pitt child with the earrings. Some people don’t think it’s right to pierce a child’s ears. So simply don’t pierce your child’s ears!
I think it’s a bit harsh to invite people to be so critical of small children or to speculate about their future issues when you know nothing about them. It’s like we’re desensitized by the media into forgetting they’re just kids. Their parents are in the spotlight, sure, but they didn’t ask for any of this.
I work in a Junior Kindergarten classroom and the children have to be potty trained and able to drink from a cup, they also have to leave their security items in their cubbies…after about week one they completely forget about their habits at home
4 is way to old to be drinking out of a bottle….this little girl needs to get out and socialize and grow up a little….but it is definitely not the worst thing in the world
A bottle is the least of her issues-
co-f***ing-signed.
She’s NEVER going to a normal school (Kindergarten) people. Let the ClearOne baby drink her Xenu Juice in peace. She needs all the soma she can get living with those two nutjobs and their fleet of crazies.
You know what’s so weird? That bottom picture, where Suri is both walking on her own and smiling (both rarities)? That was taken when she was with a nanny.
And no, she won’t be going to a “normal” school, she will be going to a Scilon school like Will Smith’s New Villiage Leadership Academy, or the Delphi School like Tom’s other kids Bella and Connor.
http://jetteroheller.wordpress.com/2007/08/29/scientology-school-for-tom-cruises-kids/
I 100% agree with MStat. This girl is going to kindergarten (or whatever Zenu school offers) next year and its time to loose the baby habits. Its not a RUSH to make her grow up-just its that phase is over. If you want to allow baby things, don’t give her high heels and make up. Talk about opposite ends of the spectrum. This is the perfect example of how parents are so blaze’ about parenting kids these days. Bottles are meant to be used the first year of life-then when they get teeth and can hold objects they move on to cups and spoons. My doctor is the biggest organic tree-hugging natural doctor in Atlanta and she was extremely adamant about making sure the bottle and pacifier are gone in the first year or they become soothers and your child struggles to learn internal soothing techniques which leads to oral fixation and smoking. Is it the end of the world she’s drinking from a bottle-nope. But its also pointless and can become an issue down the road. All because God forbid she’s denied something she wants, and its easier to give it to her than face the fight.
I don’t get why Suri never seems to be dressed weather appropriate. Whenever I see pictures of her, she is always wearing sundresses and sandals or flats with no socks or tights. Never a coat, even when it looks cold outside. What bothers me even more is that Katie seems always to be dressed for the weather. What’s up with that? Does Katie really want to show off her little girls designer clothes to the paps or something?
It could be that she doesn’t drink from a bottle at home or where nobody can see her. I suspect (based on my speculation, based on Tom Cruise’s strange public behavior and rants about how his religion can “cure” people’s emotional problems) that Cruise won’t take the chance of having Suri cry in public. I think he will give in to her any demand IN PUBLIC (maybe not in private) to keep up the public image of little stepford child always being cute, happy, and whatever, but never crying.
Yes, it’s too old. Weaning a BABY shouldn’t be that hard, she should have been weaned a long time ago. The longer she keeps it the more attached she will get to it.
Although, I doubt she uses it all the time. It’s not doing her any favors.
Treating her like a little adult, the clothes, the heels, the makeup and yet she’s still on the bottle??
I get the horrible feeling she is gonna let guys use her or be completely lost.
I think the reason why her legs look weird is because she is knock-kneed. I heard that babies are often bow-legged until they get around three or four then they are knock kneed for a while. Until everything straightens out. That’s just what I heard though.
The main dental issue, according to my sister’s pediatric dentist, comes about when there are sweet drinks like juice in the bottle and kids sip from them all day. It really can mess up their teeth.
@tinky winky – good call! She looks reasonably normal and she is not with RoboMom.
I can’t believe I’m actually worried about this kid’s nutrition. Feeding her barley water with corn syrup or whatever the hell it is, just because childcare expert L Ron thought it was a good idea, is
I N S A N E. Suri looks so slight and her legs do look a little wonky – does she have vitamin deficiencies? Since they won’t make her do anything she doesn’t want to do, what do you suppose she eats?
Still drinking out of a bottle, w/her big lil behind???
she wears lip gloss and stilettos but still sucks a bottle???
WOW!!!! no wonder when Katie took her to dinner, she was looking at the food like it was dangerous..WOW!!!
why are her legs like that?? like they are gonna cave inward??
I’m convinced its all Tom’s damn fault.
the last thing these two weirdos needed was a child, smdh.
Agree with those that said the bottle thing will be the least of this kid’s problems. I personally feel that she’s too old for it. I mean, she has been seen wearing lipstick, for goodness sake. My niece is 14-months old and hasn’t drank from a bottle in longer than I can remember. I think I would actually be a little embarrassed if my almost four year old drank from a bottle.
better then breast feeding at that age!
Not only yes, but hell yes! Pathetic! I pity Suri, as she will be another Lindsay Lohan.
The girls parents are movie stars. She’s constantly in the limelight and yes, I know that’s a whole ‘nother argument right there but simply put, If she wants the bottle, it’s for comfort. It’s probably one of few consistent things she has. Her parents are rich, if it screws up her teeth, they can get them fixed. I know, that’s a horrible attitude to have but she’s gotta have something. As most everyone else has said, she’ll lose the habit as soon as she’s in school consistently. Then we’ll be arguing whether her skirt is too short or if they should have let her dye her hair so young. 🙂
Meh, I don’t care either way. I figure it is her parents’ issue to sort out. Heaven knows I have my own challenges with my kids.
It’s fine. I work with kids all day long. I wish some of them had gotten more of ANY kind of nurturing.
Attacking stuff like this is below the belt, in my opinion. Attacking parenting, unless it’s aggregious, reckless abuse, is just wrong. If Suri grows up to be really messed up, it’ll be from reading the public’s opinion of her every move, not from Katie and Tom’s parenting. She seems like a really sweet, pretty well adjusted kid all things considered.
Maybe Suri’s legs are knocked like that because she rarely walks. Always in her robomom’s arms. LOL and it is all Katie’s fault she should be protecting her child from that freak of a father. And the older 2 kids don’t look deficient in health so they must have done something right and the older girl looks to be overweight at that. So we know she is consuming more than barley water.
scientologists make for bad parents. just ask leah remini whose 10 year old is still in diapers LOL
Being still on the bottle is the least of her problems. Does she ever play with other children? I’ve never once seen her socializing or interacting with another child.
BTW is she potty trained yet?
I have 3 young kids who used bottles a fairly long time. NO BIG DEAL!!
It was a comfort thing, they grew out of it on their own and are normal, healthy kids. Their teeth are fine.
This is so overblown. Most kids are grownup in some ways and still babyish in others.
The dental issue doesn’t bother me, it’s the fact that the bottle probably isn’t her first, nor will it be the last, of a long line of indulgences by her parents already. Like MSat said, it’s probably easier for her parents to cave in at the moment to her demands, rather than deal with butting heads with her. Possibly they think she’s young, and they’ll get tougher later. Maybe they just can’t say “no” because they think she’s so adorable. Adorable to the extent that she looks like she’s been taught to “pose” already. Well, waiting is not going to make it easier. When she hits about 16 and is threatening them that she’d better get her way, or else, and they are afraid to say “no”. . . ugh. Hope I’m totally wrong.
I can’t wait to see the bottle she’s be drinking from in 15 years.
I think that she has no rules and gets to do whatever she wants. The bottle is the least of their problems.
No big deal. In other countries women breastfeed far past two years, so we American’s just get all self righteous and bent out of shape about childrens’ need to suckle past the clinically accepted 6 months (for some strange reason).
Well, I think that we should MIND OUR OWN FN BIZZNESS!
she looks a little knock-kneed…
Yeah, I’d have to agree… this “baby bottle” issue is really the LEAST of her worries. I’m just hoping it’s not filled with liquor or some form of liquid adderrall (sp?). I kid, I kid.
But any over indulged, spoiled way… this kid is already wearing couture clothing and lipstick people, remember? Suri is DEFINITELY running the show and she’ll quit that bitch when’s she damned ready.
If she is old enough to wear high heels she is old enough to drink from a cup…..
Katie Holmes seems to have her own particular style of parenting. Suri does as she wants: Underdresses in cold weather, walks barefooted on the cold, dirty sidewalk, wears high heels and lipstick and at the same time drinks from a bottle, at four years old. Katie Holmes is playing dolls with her child, who she seems to be grooming into her own BFF while robbing her of her childhood. Suri should be playing with other children and socialising with other children her age EVERY day (kindergarden?)`
I had a bottle till I was 5. I am the only one in my family who didn’t need braces and I have no speech impediments. I used to come home from school and have a bottle and listen to The Magic Roundabout on the stereo. Aaah happy days. The bottle was fine but The Magic Roundabout was some hippy dippy stuff and may have f–ked me up completely.
can they please put some pants and a jacket on this girl already???!!! sheesh! katie is wearing what looks like a rain coat and her kid is wearing a dress! who cares if suri says no and only wants to wear dresses! parents need to stop trying so hard to be their child’s best friend and start acting like their freaking parents. give her some rules and guidelines! it’s for her own good and protection.
The children of Angelina sucking constantly his thumb.
Is this normal?
The other little kids at preschool will sneer at her and call her a baby, then she will give it up because little kids all want to grow up and be treated like big kids. Oh right, she isn’t allowed to go to a normal preschool or mix with human children. Well, that might slow her maturing down a little.
Ohmigod Kitty, I remember the Magic Roundabout!
Its ok
If they would switch her to a sports bottle, all of this controversy about using a baby bottle would stop. Then it would be about the contents of the bottle, instead. People are always going to have opinions about what they’re doing.
As for what Suri is wearing and them actually parenting as parents to get her to dress more warmly, apparently Xenu says that children are adults and adults must listen to them while not enforcing any kind of rules. (Insanity imo) I really do fear for these Xenu kids in about 15 years because they may be worse than Lohan.
The thing that bothers me most is the fact that this photo is out there for the world to see. I would bet that every adult today has something from their childhood that they would be mortified to have their friends and partners see(remember photos of the bare bum babies that parents thought were so cute? Now imagine that being seen at your wedding reception!)
What is scary that these children Suri,Pitt-Jolie children etc will not have the privacy that the rest of us had growing up and never have a real childhood. That is more worrisome than having a bottle.
Remember Suri is “an adult” according to the $cientology whack jobs so it’s up to her to wean herself off the bottle.
Either that or Tom continues to let her use the bottle because it’s the only way he’ll get some publicity. Suri is the only thing keeping him relevant.
I agree with what a lot of others said. A bottle is the least of this kid’s problems. But still drinking out of a bottle yet wearing lipstick and high heels is a little f*cked up.
I drank from mine every night before bed until i was 5. Honey water. It was the big treat for me and the reward for sticking to the regular cups through the rest of the day.
Then one day i didn’t anymore. And guess what – i don’t run about looking for bottles, and managed to make it to be a normal functional 36 year old female.
Leave the baby alone – a) she’s not your baby and b) she’s going to be FINE> its just a f*cking BOTTLE!
I doubt she’ll get sneered at in her Thetan Deterrent 101 class. I mean she is the Holy f**king Grail baby of the Co$ royalty.
Scilons don’t say no to their children. This is part of parental training. Leah Remini’s daughter was 5 (or currently still) when she was still wearing diapers and drinking bottles. Kristie Alley is marrying off her 17 year old son…
Unlike Tommy Girl (who loves to be the butt of attention) most Scilons keep their children out of the photog eye because they KNOW they will be judged for their inadequacies.
Rule #1 for Scilons: Never let an SP hurt your witty feelings. (or Always remember the toy lube, Tommy)
@Lola. I’m glad you didn’t get the Botulism. Yes bacteria won’t grow in it bc of its low water content, but add water and watch all of the nuerotoxin endospores from the beehives germinate! (I grew all the nasty stuff in Honey water for a project in college.)
She drinks from a bottle because Capri Sun’s don’t come in “barley water” flavor.
most kids..when i was growing up and that are being raised around me now are ready to give up the bottle and paci for a cup with a straw or sippy cup asap..i hate to see an old ass kid with a pacifier
“better then breast feeding at that age!”
Um, not quite. Sucking from the breast uses completely different muscles and motions than sucking from a bottle. Sucking from the bottle until well into your toddler and preschool years has the potential to malform a child’s jaw and mouth – that’s why doctors talk about dentla and speech issues.
I don’t care about the bottle, but I’m enjoying all the comments about the trauma of paps for poor wee Suri.
Has no one else noticed that she lights up and smiles as soon as she sees the cameras?
My son is 6 and a half and still drinks milk from a bottle. He was a voracious breast feeder, although I did ween him at 10 months. He drank from a regular cup at that time and took a bottle. Now, he only drinks milk 2-3 times a day from a bottle. His other liquid is water from a cup. We don’t do soda or juice. We never did sippy cups–I hate them. Honestly, I don’t see what the big deal is. He has spotless teeth, a beautiful jaw and is aware that it is socially odd. He does it in private and is very chill when he has his bottle. Couldn’t imagine taking it away from him. One day he will outgrow it. Or not. I really don’t care. Better than biting your nails, binge drinking or just being an asshole.
My son still drinks a milk from a bottle and he’s four and a half, so does my daughter and she’s nearly three. They happily drink water out of a cup, but a ‘milky’ comes out of a bottle for them. They just drink it and don’t hold it in their mouths like a dummy. I think it’s fine, I personally don’t care as long as they’re happy healthy and getting a good dose of daily milk for nutrition. I’ve had friends tell me they had a bottle of milk until they were six! This is such a stupid issue, dummys (pacifiers) are so much worse, like a crutch that ruins their teeth!
Who’s business is it that this child drinks milk from a bottle at 4. The media will damage her more than the bottle will. Leave these celebrities alone they have enough problems, as we all have.
suri is a cutie pie. i hope she can have a childhood.
My son has been off his bottle and pacifier since he was 6months, I read that after six months old that it will be harder for them to let go of it…. I also feel that if they actually let her go to school with a bottle in her hands, there’s no telling what the kids will say to her and that may have a big effect on her and her progress in school….
I’m with Feebee on this one. Least of that kids worries. I’d let her have it until she 18.
If the brat can wear coutour and heels, she can drink out of a regular cup!
Why is this kid never dressed? Her mother is all bundled up and poor Suri is wearing a sundress? WTF???
my daughter still drank a bedtime bottle when she was three. THe dr. said to let her alone, she would stop when she realized it was babyish. And she did. She threw the bottle in the garbage herself at the age of three and that was that.
i think she is right if u feels she wants one then she has the right for one!!
I came across these posts because my 2 1/2 year old granddaughter Is still on the bottle. She’s been drinking from Sippy cups and even regular cups for some time. She does have alot of cavities and has been complaining about her teeth hurting. She only uses it for comfort (sleep time) which is I really believe that once a baby uses the bottle to go to sleep, it’s so much harder to break them.
The little girl’s legs are perfectly fine.
For comment 89 – very offensive and mean to call her a little brat. How well do you personally know her? She is just an innocent little girl. That being said, every child has his/her moments