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By "too young for glass", I'm assuming you mainly hint at weight – which happens to be basically the only, but quite significant downside to glass. The materia
by isametry 3y ago
By "too young for glass", I'm assuming you mainly hint at weight – which happens to be basically the only, but quite significant downside to glass.
The material itself is already about 1.5× to 2× as dense as your average container plastic, plus since you're aiming for at least a decent strength, on top of that the wall thickness will probably be several times larger too.
- cout 3y agoPlain glass jars can break if dropped (or thrown) off the table. If I'm sure a jar is borosilicate then I might consider letting my child drink from it, otherwise it's not worth the risk.
- masfuerte 3y agoI've heard of a very small child being offered a sip from a thin glass and biting a chunk off the rim. Fortunately no harm was done.
- saiya-jin 3y agoThis happened to us on vacation in Italy 2 weeks ago, my almost 2 years old daughter was drinking water from glass wine (since some better restaurants there don't give you any other type of glass regardless of drink). We obviously freaked out and acted immediately, the staff was a bit concerned but it wasn't their child chewing glass shards. Daughter fortunately developed quite a skill or pushing stuff she doesn't like from her mouth using tongue, so she pushed out everything quickly, small cut in her inner mouth, 2 minutes of crying, us running around and that was it, with some evening worries (wife is a doctor but still...). Not recommending this experience, better check what they give to your young ones (say below age of 3) beforehand, or just bring your own unbreakable one, even if (good) plastic.
- derekja 3y agoI had presumed he meant breakage and the shards turning into little knives.