Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise are getting slammed today for allowing their 3 year-old daughter to still drink from a bottle. Child development experts  started slinging opinions after this picture of Suri was snapped Wednesday sucking on a bottle on the set of her momma’s new flick, The Romantics.

suri still on bottle

“She should have been weaned off the bottle by the time she was one year old,” Dr. Jennifer Shu, a pediatrician and co-author of Food Fights , tells Usmagazine.com. “By the time kids are nine months old, they have the physical development and mouth coordination necessary to be able to drink out of a sippy cup or a cup with straw. That development comes pretty early.”

But on the other hand….

But Dr. Harvey Karp — a pediatrician, child development specialist and creator of the DVD and book, The Happiest Toddler On The Block – doesn’t think it’s such a big deal. “Sucking is normal for kids when they are tired or bored — as long as kids aren’t keeping the bottle in their mouths for hours” he tells Us, adding that it may serve as an emotional security device. “Thumb-sucking is more damaging.”

I actually agree with Dr.Karp…it’s not like you don’t 3 year-old’s still using pacifiers. What’s the dif? There’s a certain stigma attached to a kid using a bottle too long.  And they are either hiding the fact that she’s still on the B (we never see pics of her sucking on her wheatgrass anymore) or she is really only using for a comfy. A small piece of calm in her crazy, celebrity baby life. I’ll tell you the real reason you can’t let a 2-3 year-old have a bottle..they chew through the damn nipples at an alarming rate!