Teaching your baby to feed and drink by themselves

A good age to give your baby a sippy cup is around 6 months.  Start with a sippy cup that has a control valve inside, handles for baby to grip easily with both hands, and a soft spout.  Also when you feed them solids, give them a spoon of their own to hold.  They'll start putting it in their mouth where it's supposed to go!  Finger foods is a good type of food to teach them how to feed themselves.  Now table manners...well we might not tackle that one in a while  :-)