Old fashioned attitudes your parents had/have

noelleux · 14/10/2023 15:40

My mum judges women who work full time.

My dad finds it “terribly modern” that I let my DSs wear nail polish and pink.

IvorTheEngineDriver · 14/10/2023 15:45

Notpetite · 14/10/2023 15:23

No sex before marriage.

Dad would never date anything on a Sunday. If writing a letter or cheque, he would always, like his father did, date it on the Monday.

I am trustee of a charity and our former secretary did this. He was a solicitor and while he admitted that the legal requirement not to date cheques on a Sunday went out years ago, he still could not bring himself to do it!

melmonroe · 14/10/2023 15:47

No ITV it's common apparently.

CurlewKate · 14/10/2023 15:50

Speaking as someone who is the same age or older than most Mumsnetters' mothers, please let this not be another thread at worst bashing older people or at best attributing people who grew up in the 1960s with attitudes from the Victorian era!

noelleux · 14/10/2023 15:50

Oh cutting carrots into pennies rather than batons is common as well.

Stonemaiden · 14/10/2023 15:52

CurlewKate · 14/10/2023 15:50

Speaking as someone who is the same age or older than most Mumsnetters' mothers, please let this not be another thread at worst bashing older people or at best attributing people who grew up in the 1960s with attitudes from the Victorian era!

Too right! Things go round and come round all the time.

Gymmum82 · 14/10/2023 15:53

My mum also disapproves of working full time if you are a woman with children.

She also thinks mental health issues don’t exist

BashfulClam · 14/10/2023 15:59

Definitely no sex before marriage. My mum once said ‘I was pure on my wedding night and hope you will be too!’ I’d already had two sexual partners but never let her know that. Me and DH lived together before we married and that for some reason was ok.

Stonemaiden · 14/10/2023 16:01

BashfulClam · 14/10/2023 15:59

Definitely no sex before marriage. My mum once said ‘I was pure on my wedding night and hope you will be too!’ I’d already had two sexual partners but never let her know that. Me and DH lived together before we married and that for some reason was ok.

Well my mum had me when the pill was only readily available to married women, so till fairly recently it was sound advice

BashfulClam · 14/10/2023 16:40

Stonemaiden · 14/10/2023 16:01

Well my mum had me when the pill was only readily available to married women, so till fairly recently it was sound advice

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It wasn’t about having a baby it was an outdated attitude and ‘what will the neighbours think’. I grew up when contraception was readily available (mum got the pill as a teenager due to bad period pain when she wasn’t yet married in the 1960’s)

Ohwhatfuckeryisthis · 14/10/2023 16:47

Well, I always thought my mum (born 1924) would be rather straight laced, but she shocked me, when I was buying things for my honeymoon when she said “you only need to buy a nightie in case there’s a fire”.
But for me as a kid-only big white cotton knickers. And a vest, unless it was hot. Anyone under 15 or so was “too young” to have a bf or gf. No cheese before bed. Moderation in all things. You know what-all pretty sensible.(though I did covet flowered bikini knickers)

DinnaeFashYersel · 14/10/2023 16:53

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DinnaeFashYersel · 14/10/2023 16:59

It seems my GP's old fashioned views were too much for MN