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Dumbest parenting advice youve ever heard?

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Posted 06/20/2013
My 6 year old dd got very sick with the flu and was in the hospital from dehydration. My mom said she if I had given her 7 up it would have cured the flu and she would have been fine. Everyone knows 7 up magically cures viruses!
Posted 06/20/2013
I remembered a few gems from my bb...

Don't lay out while pregnant because you could either boil the baby, or burn the baby if your belly is exposed.

And it's not really advice, but deliciously stupid. One girl was getting pains in her belly button, and asked if anyone else's lo was tugging on the umbilical cord, and would that hurt anything? Sorry, your belly button is where you were connected to your mother. not where your baby's cord gains nutrients.
Posted 06/20/2013
We also had an eclipse during our pregnancies, and for weeks the board was full of debates on whether going outside during an eclipse would harm the baby.

Don't worry, though. You'll be safe if you wear red and put a safety pin on your underwear. Yes. Debates.
Posted 06/21/2013

yeah my SO is adamant about the red string or shirt thing during an eclipse, and because i didn't do that i caused my dd to have a cleft, i then asked why all the babies born the same day as her and around that time didn't have them, and why cleft lips are just exploding in amount (i can't put sentences together right now) of babies born while there was an eclipse with them in utero.  he said it only happened to me (dd) because i laughed at him and told him it was bs.  so i was stricken with some sort of karmatic revenge for scoffing and laughing at the idea of the red item.  i think he said something about a safety pin but eh yeah i kept asking why, i don't need a safety pin (i will say all my shirts as a teen had a safety pin, pinned to the hem because i was a cutter and that was my tool of choice and just having it there at the ready felt better i really can't explain it, i didn't cut all the time, but just having it in case i needed it, well it did help i can't explain it)  so the safety pin thing hit a button i didn't know i had...i never told him, he still doesn't know...though he does know i have cut)  any way way off topic.

oh and when the eclipse happened i was at least 16 weeks, last class in fetal development i had and everything say the mouth is already formed by then, so i asked him what happened then did her mouth just break open.  he laughed at me said something can't remember his words exactly but basically called me stupid for not knowing then said all american doctors are stupid when it comes to fetal development and the power of the moon blah blah blah.   then a neighbour, also from the same country as my SO, who lived in a detached garage converted into an apartment said the same thing it was my fault, i told her the same thing, no the face was already developed it was already there, she said oh yeah the doctors always say that...(yeah she said it like it wasn't true and it fetal development is apparently undocumentable and  there is know way to know how development really happens...uhhh yeah u/s and sadly with early losses we can see what is developed and not...oh yeah big secret doctors have no idea how they develop.  oh and this woman is terrified to walk through a grave yard at night because a ghost will kill her.

can i get a slow blink?

 holy crap it is so sad and funny.  i can't imagine living my life by superstitions, that can't be any way to live ack. 


Beryllium, Nickel, Cerium
Right is right even if no one is doing it.  Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it. ~Hippo of Augustine  
UEEEEA is a lie

Last edited 06/21/2013
Here's a gem for you ladies. When my odd was a baby, my fil told me not to pull the binky out of my lo's mouth because it would suck in her soft spot. He was serious. He also added on an oh so "believable" story about it happening to my step sisters son. It took me all I had not to burst out into laughter. Although a few chuckles did escape. And then the whole blah blah, it's true crap ensued. Um, ok buddy.

Mommy of two beautiful girls

G 9.15.10 & A 9.20.12

Posted 06/21/2013

My grandmother told my then 7 year old DD (she's 15 now) that if she didn't stop biting her fingernails, she would never find a husband...then she looked me square in the face and told me that I needed to make sure that she stopped biting her fingernails...it was important to her future....um ok. Love you grandma...but not so much worried about that one....

Posted 06/21/2013
My in-laws insisted my 10 month old didn't need a carseat because he was sleeping when we were leaving.
Posted 06/21/2013
Had someone tell me to give my 7month old hot black tea with honey because she coughed.
She looked at me like I was stupid when I said honey was dangerous for babies in top of the fact I'd rather not jack her up on caffeine.
Posted 06/21/2013

It's not really advice but I get peeved over people who think babies/toddlers are constantly cold. All three of my kids refuse to wear hats, gloves and socks. My daughter refuses to wear shoes when she's playing at the park. I've had at least 10 people point it out to me. One old woman was concerned when it was spring and 65 degrees out about her feet being cold when she had her 6mo. old granddaughter in a SNOWSUIT (seriously).

If a child is not in imminent danger I wish people could just keep their mouths shut and parent their own children.

Posted 06/21/2013
I always got the sock advice. Dude, it's 85 degrees outside, he doesn't need socks.

FIL told me when ODS weaned from breastfeeding at 7 months that he was too old to be nursing anyway and it was time for him to move on. I decided not to tell him that I had every intention of nursing my kids until at least 18 months.

SIL tells me I should feed my kids junk food now so they want it less as they get older. I can see giving them the occasional cookie and whatnot, but forgive me if I refuse to give them Mountain Dew and HI-C like she does.

Same SIL also tells me that I should turn ODS forward because his feet touch the backseat and it's unsafe. Oh, and she says the law in her home state is that once their feet touch the seat, they HAVE to be turned. Yeah, ok. Except no such law exists, but whatever.


Wife to Mike 10.13.07

Mommy to ^I^ 3.28.08, J ~ 5.27.10, & A ~ 8.1.11

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