 [ Symptoms ] is 3 too old to have a bottle  my 3 year old step son is still using a bottle at bedtime we got him off the bottle for nap time but my fiance believes that his son will not go to sleep at night without a bottle the mother does not seem at all interested in taking the bottle away i just want to know if it is okay that he still has a bottle at night or if we need to take it from him while we have him for our week and inform the mother that we have done this [ Disease ] a three year old should not be using a bedtime bottle so i have two suggestions 1 switch the contents of the bottle to water no milk bad for the teeth 2 use a low flow nipple so that he will really have to work at it to get any think out when you wash those nipples it would not be harmful to forget to wash off some of the residual soap 3 buy his bottles with money or a toy have him throw them away when the garbage truck comes let him toss them in the bin or truck and watch them go away to the dump 4 finally make him go cold turkey you will have a few very difficult nights as he screams and protests do it on the weekend and by monday he will be fine you on the other hand may need psychological help