I have been sweeping one up a week it seems because we have tile in the kitchen and I am GOING MAD I TELL YOU!!!!!!
I have some enamel (the camping cups.. it's enamel right?) cups but those are chipping... arg!! Is that safe? It is mostly around the rim!

Ideas??? Help! I don't want to go back to plastic!

would corelle cups work? They're pretty hardy but when they do shatter....well they shatter into millions of pieces; or mason jar type glasses?

I break my glasses all the time, KD. I tell my DH "I do everything with passion". They usually break when I wash 'em.

Corelle sounds like a great idea. SO far, we only have 4 coffee mugs left, and zero glasses...

I gave up and went back to plastic cups for the kids. It wasn't so much the sweeping that bothered me...it was the slivers I missed when sweeping but found when walking that irritated me!

We have ceramic tile in the kitchen and wood flooring everywhere else. The kids broke every jelly jar cup and mason jar cup we had. Then they started breaking the adult glasses. We got down to 2 glasses.

So I went and bought 12 more adult glasses and 6 small kid cups (plastic) for 60cents a piece.

I had some enamelware mugs for the kids thinking they were the perfect solution but dd said she didn't like them because they made her drinks taste funny. I took a sip of her drink and it did taste funny. I dumped out the drink and noticed a small chip where the bottom of the mug joins the side on the inside. So now we only use them for snacks...popcorn and such.

I went to goodwill and found those old jelly jars with characters on them... we use those. I think we have broken one. We have two plastic sippies... one for bed, and one for the car. She does really well with them... I also limited eating to the dining room for my own sanity. (Well, most of the time, I can't say I just limited it becuase we ate popcorn in front of the tv last night... lol)... anyway, I have had those cups drop on concrete and not break or chip. They were the best $6 I ever spent!

Edtied to add link to the type I am talking about:
Jelly Jar cups, looney tunes... ebay (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3278256876&category=1537)

A search listing brought up this: (http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=Jelly+Jar+Glasses&ht=1&sosortproperty=1&from=R10&BasicSearch=)

Love Val

we use the same welch's jelly jars and also the mason jelly jars for kid glasses. We haven't broken any yet, but we have linoluem, no tile.

lol...and we've lost about 3dozen of those jelly jars over the last several years. They usually break into big chunks without too many small slivers. Here recently there was a broken glass every single day for almost 2 weeks. I couldn't take it anymore.

We have been using mason jars and those are the ones we keep breaking. I think DH is the only who hasn't! LOL! We all have butter fingers! I miss my wood floor in the old house!! I just can't see replacing perfectly foo tile y/k? I have also read tile is also pretty healthy so theres another reason I want to leave it even though it's not my first choice.

Is corelle like Corning ware? We have plates and those have shattered into little shards on the tile. Luckily we have only lost one of those in seven months *knowck on wood*

thanks ladies

edited to add: If I have to use plastics cups for the kids are there safer plastics that don't break down as much with washing?

Yeah, and kimberly, remember when that dish broke? I'm still finding pieces in deep dark corners when I'm over there. And those shards are razor sharp. Honestly I'd go look for the old fashioned camping ones. the ones that are just tin or something. any problems with those?

I woulds thought the enameled ones are fine, because they are porceline. Porcelin can vary in content, but it's basically baked earth of some kind. although they do get pretty hi-tech with it nowadays.

What about some area rugs in your kitchen. It may help to define the areas better anyway? :)

Originally posted by mikifrogspapa


What about some area rugs in your kitchen. It may help to define the areas better anyway? :)

ummm.... You HAVE seen my kitchen right? About how many rugs would I need?!?!?! I would think at least four! LOL! :p

Originally posted by Dannielle
I gave up and went back to plastic cups for the kids. It wasn't so much the sweeping that bothered me...it was the slivers I missed when sweeping but found when walking that irritated me!

UGH! Me too! There was one week where ds broke 4 glases in one week. My dh got a sliver of glass in his foot and was not too pleased. I was so fed up, I went out and bought those Tupperware kids cups with the lids on top that have a hole for a straw. They are plastic, but I don't let his water sit around in them all day. I always give him fresh water when he wants a drink.

My kiddos drink out of coffee mugs. They have dropped them several times but only the handle breaks if it breaks at all. We do have vinyl flooring but coffee mugs are pretty thick and I can't see them shattering even on tile. Also, they are super cheap at garage sales resale shops and stuff. IMO (and I am not super crunchy- just love reading this forum:p ) The plastic cups have a nasty texture that starts to shred a little around the rims after a while. I can't stand drinking out of them so I don't make the kids. We do have 2 plastic cups that used to be sippy cups (we lost the lids) I use those sometimes if the kids seem to be in a clumsy mood. For the car I have plastic sports bottles that I get free at different events (they have advertsing on them). I throw them away when they get nasty.

You can get stainless steel ones like the ceramic camping ones.....metal, with no coating, kwim? Just "tin" like stainless ones.....(o: I prefer these over all else.

Originally posted by ~Denise~
You can get stainless steel ones like the ceramic camping ones.....metal, with no coating, kwim? Just "tin" like stainless ones.....(o: I prefer these over all else.

I think that's what I am going to have to go with and try out.. I don't have a choie. Anything that hits this floor breaks.. I don't think coffie cups will survive but I do think they would break in larger pc so that would be better but still....
I think i will look for those cups Denise

I can totally sympathize. When I am pregnant I have butterfingers really bad..and we had ceramic tile everywhere. dd drinks out of little silver or stainless cups. She uses the stainless in the tub too. (for the record0she NEVER dropped them....just mommy-lol) For plastic-I would look into tupperware for being very resilient. And do not use any harsh detergents on them. Just nice vegetable based soaps-not petroleum or chlorine based.

HIya,
You don't want tin. You want steel. Tin blows out your thyroid. My MIL has uncoated tin from the turn of the century. I find all sorts of reasons to not eat at her house. Her thyroid is blown, my husband's is iffy.

You know the photographs of old- West cowboys? How they always looked a little ( a lot)wrong? Bulgy eyes, and so on? That's from drinking well water drawn from tin buckets.

I think it's possible to get enamelled drink cups with metal rims coating the edges. I have plates like that. I remember coffee mugs for sale, that matched. Pearl River, which has a website, stocks them ( I think) even though they aren't on the website. I see them featured in magazines.When the coating chips,you want to get rid of them, b/c the metal IS leaching into food and drink.

Restaurant quality glasses are really heavy. You can get them from a restaurant supply store, inexpensively.

Haivng said all that, when I had my clumsy time,,,,,,I broke eveyr glass in the house, including coffee mugs, and we switchedto plastic, and I don't have a third eye blinking out between my eyebrows.

thanks mamas for your sympathy (LOL) and info!!

I think they *are* stainless steel, not tin...the camping type ones. Tin would be much thinner, softer, and rustier.....

I much prefer the steel ones over plastic...plastic scares me. And yuck, the taste that plastic gives!!!! Ugh. I hate the taste plastic seems to give the water, lemonade, even soda! I taste a clear difference drinking water from a glass or stainless steel cup over plastic. Especially from the fridge......plastic just turns everything, well, plastic-y. I spent a lot on Tupperware ones, cheap ones, all sorts...and blech, still an ooky taste. If it alters the taste, I gotta wonder what else it does. JMO. :confused:

I found some seriously thick glasses at Target that I have has good luck with. They call them working glasses and they come in a box of 16 ( eight grown up size and eight kid sized) I have had pretty good luck with them.

A friend of mine has a set of wooden glasses that her kids drink out of but I have no idea where she found them. I will have to ask her.

some ikea plastic cups lately but I am tempted to spring for this stainless steel mug for my little guy. They used to sell it with a plastic sippy cup lid but no longer seem to offer that.

http://store.yahoo.com/naturalbaby/terchilcup.html

or another one I found is titanium - does anyone know if that is safe?

http://www.rei.com/online/store/ProductDisplay?productId=5361&storeId=8000&catalogId=40000008000&langId=-1

My husband has a titanium wedding ring... it was $500, and now you can get a titanium POT for $50.. that just seems unfair. *pout* But I have heard that things that you make jewery out of are the safest metals to use for eating. And some of the purest. I do not know if this is true, but it is what I have heard.

Love Val

Originally posted by BlueRoseMama
My husband has a titanium wedding ring...


:eek:

Dh and I both have titanium bands - they were $90 each!!


As far as the glasses go, we've gone to using super-heavy beer mug style glasses. That has worked for us so far. Dd still uses sippy cups unless we are giving her sips of water from a real glass. They would be far too heavy for a small child to use.

So... that may or may not be helpful to your situation.

be well.

anne

wow I had no idea bout the titanium cups! I think I may have to save up for cups! OL! Who'da thought? LOL!

titanium is known for how strong it is compared to how lightweight it is. Not that stainless steel would break when you drop it, but titanium wouldn't get bent out of shape.

Also, Val, I've heard the same thing about jewelry metals, (Not the kids jewelry, toy companies don't seem to be all that concerned about our kids, y'know. Tee hee.) So Titanium may be pretty safe.

Originally posted by annababy
:eek:

Dh and I both have titanium bands - they were $90 each!!


As far as the glasses go, we've gone to using super-heavy beer mug style glasses. That has worked for us so far. Dd still uses sippy cups unless we are giving her sips of water from a real glass. They would be far too heavy for a small child to use.

So... that may or may not be helpful to your situation.

be well.

anne

Well I told Don about this, and I think the reason that his was so much is that it has a band of 3mm of Titanium on each side of a 2mm Platnuim band. It must be the Plat... I forgot about that.

Love Val

Originally posted by mikifrogspapa
Also, Val, I've heard the same thing about jewelry metals, (Not the kids jewelry, toy companies don't seem to be all that concerned about our kids, y'know. Tee hee.)

Goodness... isn't that sad? :rolleyes:

I am so glad that there are more responcible parents out there everyday. :heart:

Love Val

Originally posted by BlueRoseMama
It must be the Plat... I forgot about that.


Yup... we looked at platnium bands exactly like the ones we got in titanium... the were about 10xs as much.