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Hotel Transylvania 2 have asked us to find out what the most bizarre advice is Mumsnetters have ever received from their parents in law….

In Hotel Transylvania 2, Drac is worried that his adorable half-human, half-vampire grandson, Dennis, isn’t showing signs of being a vampire. So while his mother Mavis is busy visiting her human in-laws with Johnny – and in for a major cultural shock of her own – “Vampa” Drac enlists his friends Frank, Murray, Wayne and Griffin to put Dennis through a “monster-in-training” boot camp. Mumsnetters everywhere will be familiar with differences in opinion with their in-laws although perhaps not quite on this scale…!

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So, what’s the most bizarre piece of parenting advice you have ever received from your in laws? Maybe they they’ve got some peculiar natural remedies they suggested you use? Have they told you that they’ve found a fool proof way of getting your DC to sleep by just singing them a particular lullaby? Perhaps they think they’ve somehow come up with a way to make your DC do everything you tell them? Whatever it is, we’d love to hear it!

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Put some brandy in the milk to help them go to sleep!!! No way.

That breast milk would be good for baby's skin, rub in large quantities regularly!!! As if i was mother to the queen of sheba!

To use terrytoweling nappies and wipe the babies face in a wet nappy, good for babies skin!!!!

It was from my mother- risk in the bottle from 2 weeks old. Needless to say I didn't follow it!

Mine told me to just leave a bottle of milk in ds's cot overnight and ignore him. Apparently he'd feed himself if hungry enough

I haven't really been given odd advice by in laws, but I know they didn't like it when we let children cry to sleep rather than picking them up - our method worked though- our DC have never had sleep problems and they're near 6 and 7 now!

just ignore a crying baby or you will spoil them
For heavens sake how can a baby be spoiled they cry for a reason so that is one piece of advice i ignore
Fortunately i was my mum's fourth child and was crying a lot she took me to the doctors and he told her she was being overly fussy as i was a prem but she knew something wasn't right and took me to hospital and they were running down the corridors with me stripping me as they were running and i had to have my lungs drained i was drowning from fluid building up in my lungs and luckily my mum knew from instinct the dr was wrong thankfully as otherwise i would have died at 5 weeks old

I can't really complain about my in-laws parenting help/advice. They do have a couple of funny ways. They are a bit obsessed with vests even in very warm weather. Also despite the fact we do nails once a week, if they think they are a little long they will cut them! That drives me a bit nuts but i'm sure they're trying to be helpful.

Great Nan in law told me never to shorten my sons name to Jake either but i do!

That sugar sandwiches are a good after school snack!!!

From Mother in Law - start potty training as soon as they can sit unaided!

My MIL told me when my first born was a baby that I should flip him head over heels every now and then to stop his liver from sticking to something in his abdomen . . . . needless to say i didn't & It didn't

Put her in the pushchair in the garden.
Cut the feet off of the baby grows (I had loads).
Use a pillowcase as Moses basket sheet (again I had loads of sheets).
Made jelly for 3mo DD.
Heating and fire on in August for the baby.

Don't give him/her grapes - they're full of sugar, give them a fruit gem in stead as they have fruit in them (think 6 month old baby) then when ds got fitted for proper Stat Rite shoes dmil told me to put the shoes on the wrong feet to develop his arches!! She also told me breastfeeding was a bit porno and to feed them on carnation milk as it was full of 'nutritionals'. That's what they did in the war apparently even though she wasn't born then...

Gives them fizzy drinks at mealtimes (in cans) and me when pregnant, wine.

My father in law said let the baby cry it exercises his lungs !

Always pretend to be asleep when they cry in the night so your husband (her son) has to get up to them. Apparently she always did this.

You must handwash all garments until baby is nine months old

Whiskey rubbed on the gums of a teething baby. Errrm...ok?

Oh yes and convo with MIL when 1st baby just turned 6 months:
MIL: Have you started weaning her?
Me: Oh yes, BLW - it's great.
MIL: Lovely, can she have chocolate buttons?

Get them to use less toilet roll.......! Why??????

pouring the cold dregs of your cup of tea on ur babys head will make their hair curly! i clearly didnt do it as all 3 have poker straight hair

Unfortunately I don't have a mil she passed away a few years before ds was born. But I have a smil who is lovely but has some crazy advice.

When he was still on milk she was always trying to give him water, every time he cried she tried to give him water! Most of the time he needed a nappy or something!

If you let flies buzz around them it boosts their immune system... bizarre I know!

My MIL was horrified by my housekeeping standards slipping in the first week after my dad was born. She told me to wrap her up and put her in the garden to get my chores finished (it was January and snowing), she would be fine for a couple of hours, or I'd lose my husband who was used to higher standards!! Yeah right!