My mom use to put rum in my bottle when I was an infant to get me to sleep. Now, the only hard liquor I like is rum.
These days, if word of that ever got out she would probably be arrested for 'child abuse'.
It probably worked just fine and, in the amounts she used, posed no health risk. Another sad reflection of the hysteria of our times.
I really wonder what my kids would say if they were ask if they had alcohol.
I don’t drink much, but we were on vacation in San Antonio staying at a hotel on the river walk and I ordered several margaritas at a restaurant on the river walk. My kids were shocked, and they all wanted to know what I was drinking.
I gave them little drops of the margarita. 2 of my kids said “Oh, yuck!!!”, and then one of my daughters said “Yum!!!” I’m going to have to watch out for her.
‘My mom use to put rum in my bottle when I was an infant to get me to sleep.’
My grandmother would give me a little glass of beer for the same reason. Now I hardly ever drink beer except with some kinds of food.