'Never hug your child!' and other terrible parenting advice from the past 100 years

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'Give babies coffee at six months' The most terribly-bonkers parenting advice from the last 100 years 😳

Babies were given special baths made from lard, in the early 1900's, giving a whole new meaning to baby soft... Sir Frederick Truby King advised mums to feed their children every four hours - never at night - and to leave them outside in the garden to toughen them up. He also said that cuddles should be capped at 10 minutes. Blimey.

He wrote, "Never hug and kiss [children], never let them sit in your lap. If you must, kiss them once on the forehead when they say good night. Shake hands with them in the morning… Try it out. In a week's time you will find how easy it is to be perfectly objective with your child and at the same time kind. You will be utterly ashamed of the mawkish, sentimental way you have been handling it.

 

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