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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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That was DD not dad. Oops

My MIL told me to use reuseable nappies because 'all you do is keep a butter knife next to the loo to scrape all the poo off'!!!

According to ex-FIL, who once played Baker Street to DD as a newborn, playing Baker Street (through bad phone speakers) is guaranteed to solve any tears/tantrums/any problems whatsoever. If one go doesn't work, put it on repeat.

I used to quite like that song.

Give DD formula (instead of BFing) and she will sleep through the night.

like 'maketeanotwar' my MIL alo told me to bite my son to stop him biting others

My monster-in-law regularly puts her oar in!!

Her favourite one-liner is 'Your father did worse than that!'

We all know that their father was an unruly child (mainly because they were so busy fawning over their first golden child that they absolutely left him to his own devices)!

I love it when in the next breath she scorns me when they do something silly or daring!! Their father was the king of clumsiness and has numerous battle scars to prove it ... how social services never claimed him I'll never know!

We get that Uncle D is the best at everything .. and she seems to forget who's children she's talking to most of the time ... but then this is the same woman who disappears whenever any support is needed and who regularly forgets we have 3 children!!

... Bitter - moi!?*

Let her play with the puppy, it will tire her out...

Or just make her more excitable lol

Give them dictionaries to play with, they will 'absorb' the words

That you should give them whisky for a cold!

don't spend too much time with the children, you need your own life too!

Not exactly parenting advice but that 18 months between children isn't a large enough gap as DD won't have enough time to just be DD without DC2 being present. God knows what she was expecting we would do with DD so that DC2 could be DC2 without DD present.

Cold cucumber for teething.

I can't think of a single bit of weird advice from my inlaws - I have lovely inlaws :)

use socks as a replacement for gloves as they stay on better. Doesn't look at all ridiculous...

Wjjkl - we used socks instead of gloves for DD because she had such tiny hands that gloves didn't fit.

Don't bother with a potty - go straight to toilets as potties are dirty!!!

A drop of whisky in their night bottle will help them sleep.

When my baby had colic my nan told be to boil some coke ( fuel not the drink) to make cinder water and give it to him, apparently worked wonders for my mum!!

let my baby use the mobile phone to watch tv

you MUST get your son (their grandson obvs) out of nappies before he is 3.. else you will NEVER EVER do it. Yes, he was in nappies on his 3rd birthday (just wasn't ready). Yes, he is out of nappies now - he's 10. I must admit I had a flash of horror when MIL said this. So glad she was wrong :-)

MIL told me to never tell my children off.

Apparently i'm supposed to just leave them to their own devices and let them grow into selfish adults with no respect for authority

"Bathe your baby in Guiness as its good for his skin" Im mean seriously? mind you, I wouldnt mind trying it on myself! lol

Don't put your babies down for a nap in the day just let them wear themselves out and sleep where they drop. Not sure what is meant to happen when they don't actually "wear themselves out" and they get over tired and then refuse to sleep

To rub my son's head so that his hair would grow.....every time she saw him...she'd sit there rubbing it....aaargh! The silly thing was he had plenty of hair, it was just very blond so you couldnt see it!

We used socks as scratch mitts too wjjkl They stayed on much better and also looked slightly ridiculous