weird silly advice you have had

[devonshiredumpling]

just thinking today of a piece of advice that my ex MIL gave me .she said that if you do not wear tights in winter i would not have any children (no tights and two kids later). wondered if you people had any further gems of wisdom

Cheeky that would have explained a lot but upon further banging my head off a wall questioning this isn't what he meant at all, he knew what a hermaphrodite was and that the condition was different to 'babies changing sex in the first 2 weeks'.

Wilson that is priceless, did you try and explain, or give up, like I did eveentually

From my grandfather (just to even the score a litle)

Dont put a wet towel on the bed, particularly the pillows as you will "frighten the feathers" - still dont know the consequences of that one, but tell DH the same.

Dont stop and stand at the foot of the stairs or next time you will fall down them.

Kissing a man without a beard is like eating a boiled egg without soldiers.

Dogsmom OMG that is priceless, did he ever have the opportunity to try it out?

I thought there was truth in that! Not the air bubble bit but that it would force them to lose their grip!

I thought that about sticking your fingers up a dogs bum if it's biting and not letting go, not that the air bubble thing but because it makes them jump so they let go.

When I was pregnant, I found out the sex of the baby. I was told by an older lady, "I don't mean to judge you dear while obviously judging madly but the only thing that gets you through labour is the surprise at the end...."

From my granny (dead 20 years ago):

If you want your baby to have curly hair you have to rub a wet nappy on its head!!!

My granddad told us that eating sugar would give you worms. I believed it for years...

Not advice but I was told by a woman by the swimming pool on holiday in Gran Canaria that the heat rash I was suffering from was caused by my blood boiling

My mil said I should let 4 week old DD 'get the sun to her' I said this wasn't the advice any more. Mil replied she didn't know anyone with skin cancer so it's fine apart from the fact she had her babies in Scotland and I'm in the south of France and it's fucking august!!!! Oh do shut up.

missy I eventually resorted to drawing a picture of a penis and a vagina and screeching 'tell me what's identical about them then'. Which was fine. Until my boss walked in....

Our P.E. teacher at secondary school told us that if we had verrucas on our feet and didn't treat them, they would continue to burrow deeper and deeper, eventually going all the way up inside our legs and if we left it too late they'd reach our brains and we might die.

Thanks, Mrs F

Wilson did you get the sack for drawing pornographc pictures haha.

MiaAlexandrasmummy my mum won't let me put my arms in the air while pregnant either, as apparently if I do I will strangle the baby with its umbilical cord.

Even after applying logic to the situation "there isn't anything which attaches the uterus to the arms, they're separate from each other" she still gets upset if I do it "please don't please don't no..!"

She also expressed surprise that a cake my sister and I had made while playing loud music had risen, as her mother had told her the house had to be quiet for a cake to rise. She looked a bit startled as the rest of us fell about laughing...

From MIL, never one to mince her words: "Eggs are binding, so is cheese. Eat more fruit and shit with ease."

From my Mum...tickling a new born babies feet will send them mad.

If you move a tortoise from one place to another do it v e r y s l o w l y or it will fall out of it's shell and die.

There was a post on here once from a father (I think) who wanted to know when it was safe for his baby to catch a glimpse of themselves in a mirror. He believed that it was very dangerous for babies to see their own reflection as I recall.

He was concerned because a lot of the baby toys they'd been given had mirrors and he was scared to let the baby play with them.

My brother's ex was diagnosed with fluid on the brain. She told her mum who replied "ah felt ya that you shouldnae wash yet hair all the time, look white happened, ye've filled yer heid up with water!" Then her mum asked "if ye shake yer heid dae ye feel all the water swishing aboot?"

A friend's MIL wouldn't let him take his son out of the house after a bath because it was night and he'd catch a chill. In Antigua in the summer.

My mum told us that you could only apply anti-perspirant straight after washing, never on top of sweat, or you would get cancer.

'don't burst that blister. the boiling water that caused it will come pouring out and scald you again.' from a work colleague. i tried to explain...

'lie the baby flat on her back in her pram for hours, or she'll never be able to walk'. right. can't remember who said it but there were many similar idiotic remarks when daughter was tiny.

'you're making a rod for your own back.' meaning, you're actually giving your baby some attention - midwives in the hospital.

Mil once told me I should iron dhs pants as "you never know who might see them" erm yes
gosh, imagine! if a faithless husband stripped off only to have some hussy say 'ah, i see your wife is a slattern who doesn't iron your underwear!'
You want to induce that pregnancy with a knitting needle, you're getting too big now (thanks grandma, perhaps not).
folk knowledge? was that how they did it in her day? how old is your gran?

groovee. knitted any lemmings lately?

My aunt told me to tie my 3month old to a table leg whilst sitting on a potty to 'get her started on toilet training'

I didn't.