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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!

Everyone who posts on this thread will be entered into a prize draw to win a £300 Love2Shop voucher! Runners up can also win 1 of 3 exclusive Hotel Transylvania 2 goody bags!

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My SIL told me my (then 13 month old) son should be potty trained, and that all of her kids were potty trained before they were one! Er, OK then...

Rub a little whisky on her gums when she's teething to help numb them

If the baby is crying, put them at the bottom of the garden in their pram and crack on with your housework.

A gem from MIL!
She's actually fab but there was a few times I was tempted ;)

Put brandy in her milk so she sleeps and doesn't wake up for more during the night, this was at 6 weeks old!

don't have more than four!!

That its healthy to not practice 'tooth fairy' procedures.!

When my daughter was a week old she got her first cold. My PIL told us to take her back to the hospital?! Not quite sure what he thought they were going to do on the maternity ward...!

With my eldest they said to put the baby in the pram at the bottom of the garden - they will cry and then sleep!

Err thanks but no way......

Rub whisky on their gums, a drop in their bottle helps them sleep and to make sure the house is silent whilst they're sleeping. Needless to say I didn't listen ;)

Always treat everything with something...treat a cough, treat hiccoughs, treat crying...

Pull your babies foreskin back, which I found bizarre as both their boys had to have circumcisions in their 30's! clearly not the right thing to do!

Pull your babies foreskin back

I keep getting this from doctors. Quite hard to tell them that I am ignoring that advice on purpose.

A two year old is really naughty and 'manipulative'... OR in my opinion - they're two and tired! haha :)

My MIL told me never to leave my youngest with her as she wouldn't know what to do.....she has 3 grown up kids so I thought 'don't be daft'.......I only went to the shop for an hour and got back to a poor red ball of snot and a MIL pacing saying 'I didn't know what to do'....have never left the kids with her in 15 years since

Rocking her to sleep... age 3... hmm... no!

Leave him to cry...... he is exercising his lungs!! (I didn't)

Wasn't my MIL, but a friend's MIL told her that her son (friend's husband) was eating pureed carrots at 3 weeks and that her (first) baby was just hungry and should be fed rusks (not even 3 weeks old)!!

Never hold them if you giving a bottle, always just prop it up with blankets. If you hold baby they'll expect you to give them every bottle!

Whiskey on their gums when teething ??

when they are naughty tell them that gangawollers live in the loft and come out to eat unruly children at night!!!luckily ididnt take the MIL's advice, however i've now moved to a home with no loft just because of my own insecurities

Brandy on the gums seems to be a common one.

I was told not to breastfeed as it meant that the baby would be too attached to me. Err, I am the mother!

When I was returning to work for 3 days a week after having eldest daughter mother-in-law pleaded with me not to put her in nursery for 2 days a week as 'all babies and children that go to nursery end up misbehaving in school'. Yes, really apparently.....

My MIL told me I couldn't satisfy DS by breastfeeding and I should give him condensed milk instead! OK then ...

Whisky on the dummy to help with sleeping, I haven't let them look after her since ;)

My (ex) MIL used to tell me to give the babies whisky to help them sleep when they were very young