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Originally Posted by Psycho Dad
I believe my grandmother did the whiskey thing too. But this was before more effective over the counter solutions. And she didn't kill any of us. I raised three boys and never had to share my booze with them to ease their teething, pain, hunger or ills.
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Just because something is sold as an "over the counter solution" does NOT make it more effective nor safer than alcohol. Alcohol in small doses is harmless. I'd venture to say that modern pain killers are far more harmful than a small amount of alcohol.
I am not condoning feeding an infant (or an adult for that matter) a lethal dose of alcohol ... even accidentally.
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Originally Posted by tspikes
Kind of like the parents I saw today while I was working night shift... they come through my checklane at 12:30 with their kid that couldn't have been older than one and a half. They were wondering why he was restless and bitchy. I about told them exactly why.
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Uh ... not all kids are "restless and bitchy" at midnight. My daughter sometimes stays up 'til 1 AM on the weekends. Not everyone subscribes to the notion that "children should be in bed by 8:30". While it's possible that the child was tired ... it's also possible that he stays up late every night and sleeps late every morning and he was restless and bitchy because he was bored or something else.