What the worst parenting advice you have ever heard?

Not necessarily given to you but just in general have you ever heard about. the worst or oddest i heard was to starighten out babys feet put there shoes on opposite feet.What the worst parenting advice you have ever heard?
Let the kids decide....





They are *kids*! Parents are supposed to protect their kids from bad decisions!!!! Parents can *help* their kids make important decisions, but they don't just let the kids decide and let it go!What the worst parenting advice you have ever heard?
I actually know someone who was told by the dr to put their child's shoes on the wrong feet bc it would help with pigeon toes and that if that worked the child wouldn't have to have surgery. Well guess what, it did work and it corrected their pigeon toes and yeah the child didn't have to have surgery!!!! So don't knock bad advice!!! Yeah I can understand getting upset over things like telling people not to breastfeed, etc, but some things are really helpful!!!
Let her/him cry it out so they can't manipulate you.





The idiot Einstein at Columbia University who came up with this Ferber trash is hopefully being entertained in a torture cell in hell right now. So many linear parents bought this trash.





Babies do not have object permanance until about 12-18 months old depending upon their development, and that is only the 'normal' range. If an object or person does not exist out of site or touch for these helpless little babes; then Ferberizing, or letting them scream for help for hours is just sick and twisted control freaks hurting babies.





I hope he's learning that no one is going to answer his screams.
I think the worst was a 'friend' turned around and told me to drink a couple of pints of beer before breast feeding my 2 day old son as it will 'knock' him straight out, then she went on to say how it works for her daughter and she does it nearly everyday, funnily enough I don't speak to her now and I never did take her advice.
My parents were quite fond of the ';walk-it-off'; theory of parenting when we got hurt. Now I have a loosened ligament in my ankle, some sort of bizarre arthritis in that ligament, and a permanent chipped fracture w/part of my bone still floating around somewhere.
Wow, that is bad!


I still think ';Crying is good for a baby. It clears her lungs'; is one of the top offenders--Clears her lungs of WHAT?! Air? So strange.





*Well, to the thumbs-downers:


Seriously, what is being cleared out of her lungs?


(And this is not referring to when they're first born, but to older babies.)
A friend of mine told me I shouldn't hold my baby so much because she would get ';spoiled';. She said her mother always told her that. Her mother, I might add, was a dead alcoholic by that time.





My daughter turned out great. Her sons, on the other hand, are rebellious demons now.
I'm not sure if its advice, but my sister in law tells her son that he has to eat to feed the worms in his stomach or the worms will eat him. I would never say that to a kid, if my mom told me that I would have freaked out!
I've heard a lot of bad advice, but the one that sticks out in my head at the moment was when my cousins kid started a biting stage, she told me if your kid ever bites, you bite them back really hard to teach them not to bite.
I had a neighbour once who gave me her solution to a colicky baby. She said ';just give him a dose of gavol and he'll sleep all night!';. HORRIBLE!!!!


Drugging a baby! I thought she was nuts!
To let my 2 month old cry himself back to sleep in the middle of the night.. Seriously if you ferberize your infant, you should be SHOT. If your baby is crying- PICK THEM UP!!! FEED THEM!!!... if you can't deal with some sleepless nights, don't have kids, please.
Any parenting advice that seems extreme, I would say. I can't pinpoint any particularly bad parenting advice. Maybe just when people brag about their children and say that yours should be doing more than what they are doing as far as developmentally?
';Don't breastfeed.'; My aunt actually told me that formula is better than breastmilk and that only lazy parents breastfeed. I thought that was terrible advice! So I breastfed for a year.
Ive heard to make your baby's eyes a light color, when they are about a month old, put a drop of lemon in each eye.


That's is crazy!!
To put your baby on their stomach for the first few months because it's comfortable for the baby
the worst advice i ever heard is to put your baby outside in the sun for 5 minutes a day so that they get vitamin d that they need...crazy!!
I would have to say have a young baby (less than say 6 months old) CIO to get them to go to sleep.
Let babies cry it out in the middle of the night....
Put lemon juice in your babys eye!


How terrible!
To spank a baby if they bite you! Thats just awfull.
rice in th ebottle to make them sleep better!
all the advice from people whith no children who think they know it all and are very judgemental