Strangest advice you've ever given?

I had an interesting class tonight. My student is sort of a legend around our school. He's been coming for at least the past two years that I've been working here and he's a bit of an oddball. Not quite as socially adept as most people. He's got quite a good vocabulary but unfortunately he can't create an english sentence to save his life.

Anyways we were practicing dealing with advice tactfully and one of the topics of advice dealt with parenting. He suggested that "don't be violence to your baby" which I then converted to english "you shouldn't hit your child." I then realized that he was saying that you shouldn't use physical means to punish your children so I changed the word to "spank". Anyways he thought this was funny and told me that sometimes he 'spanked' his cats when they got into the dry food bags. This would probably be another example of using improper words in his sentences.

Anyways, it allowed me to say to him as an example, "Akihiro, do you mind if I make a suggestion? Maybe you shouldn't spank your cat!" I'm happy to say that I said this loudly enough to cause the teacher in the adjoining room to lose her train of thought in the middle of her lesson.