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.

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“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!