French Drinking Glasses

Love these little glasses :)
What size is best for 6-12 months?
The 3/4 ounce?

Thank you!
Bridget

Yes! These are the best! It’s gotta be a result of marketing that we’re obsessed with sippy cups in the U.S., because all doctors recommend switching to a regular cup by age 1. Yet restaurants routinely bring plastic sippy cups to kids until they’re 10! I wish more places would have glasses like this. Often when I ask for a glass for my 3 year old, they bring her a pint glass or something else tall. It’s physics, people, kids are short! Give them a shorter glass! :)

OH how I would have loved these when the girls were smaller. Annika stopped drinking out of slippy cups at 6 months old when we went to visit family for the first time in Florida. She saw what the entire family was drinking out of and that was the end of baby or toddler cups! She always wanted real glasses. Sometime around 2 we went through about 3 weeks of breaking a glass a day. After that she was done. Rarely had a mishap. Gemma our second was the same but not as drastic. Now at 7 and 3 we’re pretty much past the accident phase and both know how delicate glass is and are careful. In fact, both hate when they’re given plastic cups in restaurants. And ADORE places that give them wine glasses for water….and I do to!

I’ve used French “duralex” picardie glasses for twenty years, since my kids were babies. I think 2 or 3 have broken in that span of time. I used to pick them up in thrift stores, but I’ve also bought them in import stores such as Cost Plus, and fancy kitchen supply stores. They are great, and inexpensive, and classic. We recently gave away all of our wine glasses because my husband and I prefer to drink wine out of short picardie glasses, cafe style.

My three year old also loves drinking from these. They also make a pitcher that adds to the fun.

This is hilarious – our family just got back from vacation. We stayed at an airbnb that had these very glasses, and my husband and I complained about them constantly because my 3-year-old dropped/spilled/knocked over these glasses more than any others he has ever used! Our favorites are still the Bonne Maman jars, FWIW. To each their own :) Maybe he’s clumsier than your kid!

Yes! They are the best, as are the duralex bowls and plates. I believe they are better for the kids health and for the environment than plastic as well.

Funnily enough, I was drinking wine out of these exact glasses while reading this post. My 3 and 5 year olds love drinking out of these “grown up glasses.” Once we rid our house of sippy cups, the kids seemed to calibrate their need for carefulness and have rarely had spills since.

I just posted about these on my own blog, as we’re in desperate need of new drinking glasses and have been looking at a few different brands, and I think this is a sign that I should go with these!

My parents had those Duralex glasses throughout all of my childhood and into my adulthood. I love them so much that when my parents finally replaced them a few years ago (the glass had become misty and not clear after 30+ years of use) I asked them to ship them to me. They’re classics.

i was about to leave a comment about the “How old are you” trick – but some fellow Frenchies were faster than me !
Another nice tip is to get the same design from Rice, this cute Danish brand for home ware – their melamine cups with vivid colours and patterns are awesome (well, I like the Duralex Picardie as well).
This is genius when you have young guests at home and a set of cups in various colours. Pour them a glass of juice, and each of them has to remember his/her cup’s colour – no mix up among kids :)

My mom bought these more than 25 years ago and I always said they would be my everyday glasses, too. They are pretty and nearly indestructible. For a long time I couldn’t find them but finally did and they are so great for adults and kids!

I bought 4 sets of these when my husband and I were married, 10 years ago, and we use them daily. We bought ours at Williams Sonoma. They are fancy enough for company, but perfect for daily use. We are in the wine business and I sometimes will serve wine out of the short set. My kids use them. We’ve chipped a few over the years, but overall I think these glasses are amazing.

I love the idea! My 10 month old is using a sippy cup, but it seems ridiculous how far she has to lift it to get water… And hasn’t taken to the straw cup. But do you think 10 months is too young for a real cup?

I’ve used these glasses for years for my cappuccino’s, espresso’s and tea. They truly are very durable and lovely too!

I started using these with my twins when they were nine months old. Of course there were a lot of spills initially but it was only an inch of water so easy to clean up. The glasses are super strong, and the few that we’ve broken shatter into lots of small pieces, but not sharp shards, so they’re safer. My kids have never thrown a glass, not because they’re super well behaved (ha!) but because they understand that it will break. They’re now two and I trust them with regular glasses as well. As tiny toddlers they looked so damn cute drinking out of these glasses :)

We also had those when I was a kid, when they break, they don’t always break like pebbles like the security glass in a car windows, but they never break in shards. Only downside about the tempered glass: they also make cups, and when the glass is cold, the shock from the heat will make the cup explode (tempered glass is very thick, so it dilates more quickly on the inside than on the outside). Also, they break other glasses.

I got a set of these shortly after we moved to NYC 10 years ago. My French friend came over and was so excited I had them! I have broken a few over the years, but they do hold up well. They are inexpensive, and such a classic item that you can find them anywhere, so you can replace the ones you do break!

We use similar ones from IKEA, a six pack for about $3, and even my 16 month old has been using them to drink out of since he was about 8 months old. My grandpa had similar juice glasses, so they are super nostalgic.

Those are cute glasses! Love!

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