[RatbagBob]

Worst Baby Advice Ever

And apparently, if we teach our newborns to cry and everything will be given to them on demand, they will turn socialist.

Aha! NOW I know what my mum did wrong

[BadCat]

Angry breast milk is bad for babies?

[Lucretia Borgia]

I read this this morning and had a giggle.....the one that got me was feeding your baby coffee...I've had two bad sleepers, so yeah, what those two little.....darlings ...needed was CAFFEINE!!!

[Z-girls rock]

And apparently, if we teach our newborns to cry and everything will be given to them on demand, they will turn socialist.

is being a socialist bad? now I have heard it all.

[MrsLexiK]

I know the Greeks in my family use olive oil baths, those babies have the smoothiest silkiest skin going around.

[Lucretia Borgia]

is being a socialist bad? now I have heard it all.

Well I think this was 1950s America so yes, socialist bad VERY BAD....red under the bed and all that....

[Oriental lily]

Being a socialist is the same as a commie.

And the fear of communism got to a hysterical level in the early half of the last century.

I also found the rules and restriction on the wet nurses hilarious.

Here is a novel idea upper middle class families.FEED YOUR OWN BABIES!!

Does make you wonder what they will be giggling about our generation in a hundred years time.

[HollyOllyOxenfre...]

So good.

I was at FIL's over the weekend and he had an old Good Housekeeping book from the 50s that covered various things, including childcare. It put a large emphasis on "holding out" the baby from two weeks to toilet train, and not picking up a crying child, and no night feeds were allowed.

I particularly enjoyed the daily routine, which amongst various household tasks for the mother included a mandated 30 minutes for mother to put her feet up (not a bad idea) and half an hour a day devoted to "mothering" - no idea who was meant to look after the kid the rest of the day

[Me+2]

Too funny! I really laughed at this though:

Sackett also recommended giving babies black coffee starting at six months, to get them used to "the normal eating habits of the family".

All I'm seeing is Maggie when Bart gave her the coffee ice cream and she was crawling along the shower railing while Lisa tried to bring her down.

[Lucretia Borgia]

Does make you wonder what they will be giggling about our generation in a hundred years time.

Yes exactly! One pearler my MIL told me was when she was extolling the virtues of circumcision (DH is circumcised) it apparently "stops them from fiddling with themselves..."

Ah no MIL it doesn't. Noooo it doesn't....

(Not wanting to start the whole c debate here...DH was born in the 1960's when it was quite routine to get it done...in Australia)