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In 1999 while I was teaching children about the dangerous side effects of drugs And alcohol, which is a drug, and believe you me, I always emphacise this… I told them that alcohol is particularly dangerous for young children and pets, and It is not funny to see them given alcohol or another drug. A form of this question came up in all three of the third grade classes. “How do you get the baby to sleep if you don’t put beer in her bottle?” What I thought was an anomaly was apparently the norm in this neighborhood?

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Date: 5/2/2018 11:24:00 PM
Interesting, but not surprising, at least not to me...I can recount stories like this with "babysitters" who put whiskey in their charges' bottles---and the parents were so pleased when they returned home later...til the next morning when they opened the bottles to wash them. Arggggggghh!
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/3/2018 8:15:00 AM
Hahahahaha Like your take on this! Except I see some of those parents hollering, "YUM! YUM!" and drinking the rest of the baby bottle contents.
Date: 5/2/2018 8:33:00 AM
Disturbing.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/2/2018 10:33:00 AM
Are we the only two people who think this? I mentioned it in a teacher's lounge, and a bunch of teachers laughed.
Date: 5/2/2018 2:16:00 AM
Lol, often heard that one, people put a wee drop of brandy in the milk to zonk them out. Not sure if its harmful or not. Tom
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/2/2018 6:53:00 AM
A wee drop. Maybe. Not sure. But the full bottle?

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