I was told to always be strict with my kids to keep them in line. As they got older I realized that the more you try to control your kids the more they rebel and the best thing to do is not to control them but direct them in the right direction.

hehehe, I get so much bad advice all the time! But the ones that always take the cake come from my MIL. For instance, keep a baby in a playpen all day without picking them up and never let them learn to crawl so that they are easier to manage, only let them out when they have learnt to stand and walk and knock the playpen over! Can you believe that!!! Or how about, tying a toddler into a cot to stop them throwing the bed clothes off so that you don’t need to have heating going all night. I think that she was lucky that laws were so lenient 40 odd years ago. With some of the things older women have told me to do, its a wonder any of us made it out of childhood alive! haha.

‘Hug him tight, tell him not to do so’, whenever he shows tantrum, scream or cry for no reasons.
I tried and situations get worst. I don’t believe in it anymore. It’s all depend of types of kids.

The worst i would say when someone told me “Beat them with a frying pan” :S

Anything told to me by my now ex MIL. When my daughter was a newborn she told me I was going to spoil my child by holding her. Mind you, she was a few hours old. She also told me to put whiskey on her pacifier to put her to sleep. My daughter was a preemie and needed to be fed every 4 hours, even if that meant waking up to do so. The nut told me not to bother waking up, and let the baby sleep. There’s so many loopy and inane things she told me and no, I didn’t follow her advice and lucky for my daughter and I, the nut is no longer a part of our lives.

The worst advice i ever got was a man told me instead of paying for stitches or bandaids you should super glue the wounds closed. And no im not anywhere near stupid enough to superglue a wound closed instead of taking them for stitches.

My grandparents told me to smack my kids to “put them in line”. I wanted to ask how that worked for them, seeing as between them they have 16 children and 5 max come around anymore.

“Put karo syrup in one ounce of water and feed it to your newborn to make them sleep through the night”. Seriously, what the french toast!!!?!?? You don’t give a newborn karo and water like that! I’ve been given some nutty, off the wall advice but this one took the cake.

I trust my own instincts

To let your baby cry it out, I would never do that.

The worst parenting advice i have ever received was when my mom told me not to have kids! This was because she has 3 kids now and never has time to herself. Actually it is quite funny!LOL