3-pack: Igloo Yew Stuff 14oz Light-Up Bottle
- Choose which 3-pack of fun light up water bottles you want: dolphin, mermaid, and shark OR astronaut, fire truck, and normal truck.
- Basically: Creatures Of The Sea (Real & Imagined) VS. Trucks (And Driver Of Space Trucks).
- Cycle through 7 different colors, or let it cycle for you with the color changing mode.
- Doubles as a nightlight, so these are handy bedside bottles.
- According to their marketing copy, these are “unlike other children’s water bottles that tend to leak all over cars, couches, and backpacks”… which seems like a bold claim to make about your competition, but you be you, light up water bottles!
- Models: 81045, 81055, 81056, 8104, 81082, & 81044. We are very excited to see the other 80,000 designs they apparently have.
Shine A Light On Hydration
Kids don’t get hydration.
They get water. They might know that it’s called H2O. Whether they understand what that means, it doesn’t matter. They still get water. They know it’s awesome to swim in. They know that they can put a lot of it in a glass box or a bowl and keep a bunch of cool pet fish in it. They know that they can add powder or tea leaves or fruit and, of course, sugar to it and viola, it’s an awesome thing to drink. And they know that if they spill that thing, only good old water, corrupted maybe by a little soap, will help them clean up the sticky mess it leaves behind.
But they don’t want to drink it. Why would they when there are approximately three billion other choices of stuff to drink, all loaded up with sugar and caffeine and milk and chocolate and, wait, did we mention sugar already? Compared to all that stuff, water is just, well, boring.
In a kid’s mind, thirst can be sated with any liquid. In a kid’s mind, exhaustion just happens. And in a kid’s mind, headaches and stomach aches strike suddenly and for no discernible reasons. It is purely coincidental that they occur after said kids have been feeling really hungry and really thirsty. After all, kids would say, how could the hunger and thirst be related to the various aches when they solved those problems by eating a pound of Skittles and drinking 32 ounces of Mountain Dew? Their bodies cried out for them to eat and to drink and they did both of those things. So clearly it’s just a fluke that they’re not feeling great now.
Which is all to say, again: kids don’t get hydration. Thus, you, as a parent or caregiver, have two options. You can explain that, although drinking water won’t be as exciting in the moment as drinking soda or lemonade or strawberry milk, it will make them feel better in the long run. Or you could just buy them a cool light-up water bottle that, essentially, makes drinking water fun.
Which one do we suggest?
We’ll give you hint: we’re not selling books about the positive impact of drinking an adequate amount of water each day.
