Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Every parent has an item (maybe a couple) that they say, "THIS!! THIS IS SOMETHING YOU NEED!!" The 12 oz hydro flask is our THIS IS IT with our daughter. We're not 100% sure God hasn't abducted her in the middle of the night and done some cruel punishment to us and made her part camel because HOLY CRAP that kid can drink a ton of water. Not saying it's a bad thing but constant bossy 5 year- MOM ICE WITH WATER! demands UGH it's enough to drive a woman insane! Even the saintly women (and they are! They work at a church school!!) who are her teachers can't deal with the constant refill demands! So after discovering mold in her kiddie water bottles I set out to find a solution that would help all involved. This was no easy task I tell you! I asked other moms, I searched and searched; it had to be water proof, I didn't want to deal with mold, she needed to open it herself. I learned straws and stuff hold mold most, so all those bottles went out the window. The other kiddie steel ones leaked mostly. Then I stumbled across the Hydro Flask... MY MIND WAS BLOWN. I bought her one. As stated above she lives for ICE with water, so even though the water from the tap is cold it's not her little hearts desire... We tried it out, she can't really open the flip top lid on her own. Even for me that sucker is tough!!! So if you're worried about leakage from the flip top don't! So I ordered a Takeya Lid to go with it. She's gotten that down pat. I send it school with her and she has her ICE with water all day, refillable! PLUS!!! at home since it stays so cold I go through less ice cubes and it's much easier to refill just a simple refill from the tap! I probably will purchase another so the teachers and I aren't under constant order to get more water for the kid so she can rotate out. But this is an awesome water bottler for kids! I didn't see many reviews saying their kids used this so I thought I'd put it out there. And for anyone who wants to throw their 2 cents in yes we've seen the doctor she just SUPER likes to drink water because Grandma told her it was healthy. Grandma's!