Things that you can’t quite believe were the norm

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What’s one of those things you think in 10/20/30 years people will go “WTF why was that acceptable?”

For me - the Jeremy Kyle show. I’m so pleased it’s off air - awful poverty porn hosted by a nasty little bully and enabled by god-complex shit stirring producers. Also who wants to watch so much shouting and arguing at 9.25am!

Dads taking kids for a walk while mum cooked Sunday lunch. A walk that usually ended with him in a pub and assorted children left outside in the street with a bottle of pop and a packet of crisps.

1998 checks were being made, a friend had one to work in a school

I also heard they were told to wear track-suits as it was hot under the studio lights.

They really didn't want to show those people in their best light.

Police checks came in in England in late nineties. Before then you could not police check most people who worked with children. I think professionals like social workers were police checked, but children's home staff were not.

Maybe in schools and nurseries but not in the voluntary sector.

The big change that was made after Soham was linking of checks in different areas and also the flagging of allegations.

Prior to that only actual convictions showed up - hence people like Huntley being able to move from area to area every time he was accused of something.

Don’t be silly. Toilet training didn’t kill children.

Walking past the school staff room and the stench of cigarette smoke

My mum was allowed to smoke out of the window of her maternity ward while she was in at 38 weeks with preeclampsia 😳

I recently watched Pitch Perfect (2012) and was mildly shocked at some of the portrayals. I know it’s meant to be funny, but it’s as if the assumptions behind the comedy are from a different world.

Leave off the nappies for a while. Children often don’t actually like wetting themselves so nappies and pull-ups make the problem worse by allowing them to avoid using the toilet.

Has anyone else considered that the nappy manufacturers have a vested interest in late toilet training?

We tend to think that bad now but in the future we may reconsider. Generations of children have grown up ok having been subject to this sort of benign neglect. It’s only quite recently that children have been watched for the first 18 years of their lives.

If a baby was crying anyone walking past would shoogle the pram.

A doctor making home visits.

Parents have sent their children to boarding school for a lot longer than this - say 500 years.

Goodness I remember this, doesn't seem that long ago. Strange that it was co presented by a woman too

Exactly. People would stop and talk to the babies and entertain them. They were fine.

The GP visited me at home as a teenager. They were reluctant, but did home visits if needed. GPs still do home visits, but only to people housebound or in the final stages of dying.

Yes, doctors home visits. And vets.

TV programmes and films that had much older male stars with very young female girlfriends eg Quincy, On the Buses etc 🤮
It always gave me the ick.....

A large energy industry conference/exhibition continued to have skimpily dressed "booth girls" hand out drinks or merchandise at stands until 2012. And there would be an "exhibition" beach volleyball match or something similar played at the conference - obviously only women players and very skimpy uniforms. Obviously all to help you learn more about the gas and oil industry.

Endless all male panels at industry events - I reckon that only start to change around 2018 or 2019 when there was much more public shaming of organisers who didn't invite a single woman to speak all day.

They had "podium girls" for the Tour de France right up to 2020. Not skimpily dressed, but always glamorous.

And don't forget the so-called "sweet tobacco", which was shredded coconut strands in a foil pack, just like the real thing. I'm ashamed to admit now that I absolutely loved it!

Letting the tap run until the water gets cold, waisting water in general

I don't have kids so I didn't know this had changed/was now abnormal? We had a shower in the shower bit after P.E in the 80s/90s. It didn't seem odd as we were all doing it and it was just what was done. :/