[The Pack Knight]

When my great grandmother had my mother and the other grandkids over and the kids became too much of a handful, she broke out the whiskey.... and gave it to the kids. Calmed them right down.

[Inspectorette]

My mom used to rub whiskey on the gums of her teething grandchildren.

[PghBaldy]

A weird babysitter of ours would lock me in the garage when I was a kid.

[Zhang Fei]

[When my great grandmother had my mother and the other grandkids over and the kids became too much of a handful, she broke out the whiskey.... and gave it to the kids. Calmed them right down.]

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There was a time when the remedy used to include cough syrup which, prior to drug prohibition a century ago, contained laudanum aka tincture of opium. These days, anyone who has prescription cough syrup that contains codeine could do something similar. But in days past, it was completely OTC.