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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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They told me that once I had given birth to my son, as I then had a daughter and a son, there was no need for any more children (I actually went on to have a further two daughters)!

My ex mil believes firmly in potty training children from 6 weeks old. She insisted on sitting my dd on the potty. Her son was potty trained from 6 weeks old don't you know.

I kid you not. Utter fruit loop.

I did try to point out that if your child is sat on a potty it doesn't mean they are trained. And developmentally her pfb would never have been ready until much much later....

She also believed in giving children bones to help them with teething. Far more nutritious than teething rings....

Thank goodness she is my ex mil.

Make them stay sitting at the table until they have eaten everything on their plate.

MIL advised that adding sugar to milk would 'help to settle' DC1.
By DC2 she knew not to offer advice!

"If your child bites you, bite them back twice as hard and they won't ever do it again." Said the grandmother-in-law... Okayyy then...

Oh and another one from my grandmother-in-law was to take baby's nappy off at every milk feed and sit them on the potty whilst they have their milk. All four of her children were fully potty trained under 12 months old and so was my husband & his brother, all because of doing this apparently haha!

That we should never have purple balloons at DS's birthday party as they are bad luck!

I was told to stop my daughter watching Pingu on DVD as it gave her ADHD!

Not me per se, but my husbands mother was always told by HER mother, that if she cut her baby's hair before he turned one, then he would grow up to have awful hair lol. Not only that, but my mother in law was also told that she should sleep with a slice of wedding cake under her pillow to help her become pregnant!
Needless to say, my MIL never slept with cake under her pillow and went on to have three lovely kids, and as for the hair cut, my hubby Richy has lovely thick hair despite him having his hair-cut at ten months! lol (I even included a piccy of him getting excited at all the bargains in a £ shop! maybe it did affect him after all!) xxx

add a bit of brandy to there bottle soon get them asleep (obviously I didn't listen lol I was up most nights)

My ex PIL were wonderful. They never once offered any parenting advice or commented on how we were parenting. The same goes for my parents.

Dip her dummy in Whiskey that will help her settle!!
i thought "Im sure it will"

My mum told me to put my baby in the pram and leave it in the garden for some sunshine and fresh air - apparently I used to be left in the garden for fresh air and I was the most sun-tanned baby on the block!!! (I don't think I need to comment on why that isn't a good idea!!!)

I also got told that crying exercises babies lungs and it's good for them and not to keep picking the baby up when it's crying or I would spoil it and make a rod for my own back!

"Wouldn't bottle feeding be much easier!" by my mother-in-law (No definitely not!)

Not to put a baby in a sling or wrap as it's bad for their necks! (I argued I used to live in Nigeria and all the babies are carried on their mum's backs and none of them came to any harm!)

& feed baby rigidly every 4 hours on the dot to get into a schedule!

Luckily for my 9 babies I've never left them unattended in the back garden to get sunburn. I've picked them up when they've needed it, breastfed them on demand, carried them in slings as and when and they all seem to have survived and been perfectly happy :-)

To relieve colic mine told me to get a hot piece of coal out of the fire and put in in a jug of hot water, strain and cool the water and let the baby drink it.
I never tried it though.

My mother in law told me to try and get my daughter to sleep by putting the hoover on...I have to say oddly it worked!! My neighbours thought I was only cleaning when in fact I was getting my child off to sleep!!

Apparently dipping a dummy in sugar is great for settling babies. I think dentists may not agree!

Frozen cucumber for teething.

Butterscotch angel delight, made with very cold milk, to help with teething. Dd was not even weaning at this stage and no way was her first "food" going to be angel delight.

Mil also liked to add clothes / blankets to dd, despite her house being a constant 25degrees. We used to strip her off (dd, not mil, obvs!) and go sit in the unheated conservatory until she was no longer hot and furious.

Add a drop of run the her bottle. Oh dear, I don't think so!!!

"Don't let them walk too early - it'll make their legs bandy" My son walked at 9 months and never showed any signs of this!

Put a tot of rum into the bottle "that will get the little blighter to sleep". Oh the horror! :)

To not bother with breastfeeding!

When my sons first teeth came through my exs family were all convinced that if he had a tooth brush at each house his teeth would fall out. Apparently your only aloud one toothbrush and I was putting my son at risk lmao, I just smiled and said okay. (Every time I take my son to his dad's I have to take a tooth brush so they don't moan!)

I've had no advice from either in law, unfortunately they have never taken an interest in our daughter.

Two things. That I should love the evangelical church more than my family. And that if I don't accompany my (now ex) husband on every night out then he will cheat on me. Men just can't help themselves you see....