True story- when my dad was a baby, my grandma used to tie him to a clothesline in her backyard so he could run back and forth, and she dosed him up with laudanum so she could go to work. Has nothing to do with this story.
Oh please! Lot’s of Grandma’s did that. Kids thought it was fun!
One of my Mother’s relatives did that too - laudanum every night at bedtime so they’d sleep. I wonder why they had drug problems when they grew up???