Anyone who has had children inside the house would agree that children and straws don't form a formidable team. Children don't really like working with straws and once they get those easy pull-out straws in their hands they make a lot of mess in the area besides them. They can easily pull out the straws and send splashes of whatever they are drinking across the room.
So, if you want to save your house from this incident and want to ensure that the children do not get to create such a mess when they are drinking from straws please get your hands on one of these no-mess straws. They are tangled around in circles and are very hard for children to pull out of the hole that you have in most containers for drinking purposes.