What’s the weirdest piece of advice you’ve ever gotten from a family member?

[a83788477]

I remember my mother telling me to learn french completely from YouTube and my grandmother genuinely believing that to stop my nightmares I should not look at my shadows....

[kyupol]

"Just be yourself bro!!!"

[Lensing]

"It´s 100% not gonna rain"

Then I drove to my brother with my bicycle. Halve way it started to rain,
but rain is not the right expression, it was like a wall of water, I never
saw that in my life, like a flood. I saved myself under some roof after
fighting myself through the flood. I was soaked. From that day on
I never asked my dad about a weather forecast

[LunarScyphozoa]

“Put salt in your cereal, it improves the flavor”

[abigaillmartin]

But why?

Noooooo!

[abigaillmartin]

Let’s see

“Stop being weird.” - my cousin

Me: ???

[Lensing]

Have you tried it?
It does taste better

[Krysteena]

Umm... My family is toxic so they have a lot of weird stuff that you would not want. My weirdest piece of advice is helpful to parents and maybe baby sitters.... WARNING...

Recipe for teething babies

You get 1 zip lock feel it with salt and water

get a second bag and put breast milk of formula

freeze it you now have breastmilk or formula ice cream to help teething babies and it is nutrition.

P.S. you can do this with the baby food to and make popsicles

[LunarScyphozoa]

Nope! It doesn’t! I don’t know why my cousin told me that

[Leyelle]

my mom puts salt in EVERYTHING. tea. hot chocolate, water melon. it's insane.

[Lensing]

Salt inhances flavor @LunarScyphozoa & @Leyelle
The mistake is to put too much salt. I´m drinking coffee with salt and
it´s a tiny amount which doesn´t make my coffee salty at all.

The advice is great

[Leyelle]

That's exactly whay my mom says I still personally disagree that water melon needs salt

[ShidoDraws]

Not really my place to interpret what your grandmother says but would it be possible that what she meant was for you to stop dwelling on sad emotions and thoughts? Every culture is different but whenever an elder talks kind of vague like that there's usually some other meaning behind it.

Anyway, as for me, the weirdest advice a family member has given me is "If you feel tired, wash your eyes with water."

As a kid I took that advice but quickly realized that it doesn't really help. Later I discover this thing called caffeine, my en-tired world changed, and nothing has been the same since. My family knew kids shouldn't have caffeine, but they didn't know that some soda has caffeine. Heheheh!

Haha!