I Guess By Now,

many parents are at their wits end looking after their kids at home,

so grab a cup of coffee and see how parenting used to be done, in this video you will find things like this,

in the 19th century, it was common practice to quiet a fussy or sick child with "medicines" like Stickney & Poor’s Paregoric Syrup—a substance that not only contained more than a tenth of a gram of opium per ounce, but that was almost 50 percent alcohol! No wonder it was able to deliver on its promise of calming children down. Unfortunately, this wasn’t the only toxic remedy that parents embraced in the days of yore: Kids were regularly made to ingest turpentine in order to rid themselves of tapeworms, while mercury was believed to be a cure for dysentery or edema,

here is one of my own, got a screaming brat that will not shut up? as my grandmother always used to say,"never underestimate the power of duct tape!" no I am joking! really do not try this at home! many thanks indeed to Mental Floss for the video.