For parents: Do you have any unusual "remedies" for common childhood problems:)?

Question

I was recently talking to a friend who told me that when he and his siblings were growing up, their parents would forbid them to drink anything after 4 p.m. Not only that, but before they went to bed, they all had to wet their fingers with water, dip them in salt, and then l**k the salt off. This was supposed to prevent bedwetting, but it didn't always work. Also, when I was a kid, I often talked excessively and I was also often flatulent. I don't know if my mom really believed this, but she once told me that I should stop talking so often, because it was possible that when I talked, the air entered my mouth and came out the other end! LOL! Last but certainly not least, my grandfather's half-brother had a bedwetting problem. My great-grandfather "cured" him of his problem by killing a rat, cooking it, and then feeding it to him! And believe it or not, it supposedly worked!:) Do any of you have any strange "remedies" for common childhood problems?

Answer 1

I have never done this...but when researching ways to cure ear infections, I came across a slew of people who insist that a few drops of urine in the ear will do the trick.  :-P  (that makes me cringe)

Answer 2

No. I find those sorts of "remedies" to be a mind over body thing. If the child thought that eating the rat was going to cure his bed wetting, then it did. The mind does a lot of things like that because it controls the body.