Crazy Parenting Advice
From the moment the world realizes a woman is expecting armchair counselors, therapists, doctors and teachers begin offering unsolicited advice.
When my own twins were born, I can’t tell you the number of absolutely INSANE old wives tales and actual beliefs I heard when it came to raising my kids.
Some of the silliest tales I heard were:
- An older female relative informed me that I should force my son to use his right hand instead of his left because it would make him smarter.
- My grandmother believed that a baby must be left to sleep on a bed and fall off before it turned a year old for it to live a long healthy life.
- Tickling the bottom of a babies feet will make it stutter.
- If you play with a baby and cause it to cross its eyes, they could get stuck that way.
- Wearing shoes will help a baby learn to walk sooner.
A few that I remember from older childhood were:
- Coffee stunts your growth.
- Reading in dim light will damage your eyes.
- Too much television is bad for the eyes.
Do you have any crazy parenting tips that were passed on to you?
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4 opinions for Crazy Parenting Advice
Jennifer
Feb 10, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Funny! I love bad advice parenting posts. Almost all the bad myths, well not really myths, more crazy murmurings, came via my insane MIL. Like, “Don’t make Cedar do chores… or give him dolls, we wouldn’t want him to turn out gay.” HOLY, right?
I ignore her.
Someone told me once that kids should have to tough it out by not using a car seat? That one was weird (and dangerous). The biggest myth I get via email from mamas (at my pregnancy blog) is that babies, little ones, should have to cry it out. The spoiling myth.
Maria
Feb 10, 2008 at 8:15 pm
1. I shouldn’t hold the baby in a standing position with any weight on his legs. It causes bow-leggedness. Yeah. No kidding.
2. My milk no longer provides “all the good stuff” after XX months (a variety of people have used a variety of months.
3. I need to let The Boy cry so he can develop his lungs.
4. The Boy should always sleep in his own bed or he never will when he gets older.
5. CIO is the only way to “train” the boy to go to sleep on his own.
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jessica
Feb 11, 2008 at 10:06 pm
It wasn’t advice, per say, but someone i know who doesn’t have kids informed me that because my son was chewing on this person’s finger, that he was teething. However, my son was definitely 3 weeks old and NOT teething. No one has explained to this woman that babies like to suck on things:)
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