to ask the older parents on MN

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what you did in your day that would have got you sacked from MN today and potentially a visit from ss

I slept on my tummy, mother smoked when pregnant. .. and my nan thinks asprin is the best thing to give a baby for teething. And rice in my bottle from probably day one to get me off to sleep

Early 60s baby here.

Always out in the pram to get aired and from an early age out all day playing/cycling.

Had a trip to the circus at primary school age, df packed 16 kids in the car, sitting on laps, in footwells and everyone's favourite - the boot.

Holidays largely in UK and we would travel at night with dsis and I topping and tailing across the back seat with pillows and blankets. Very comfy - do feel sorry for ds these days in his car seat asleep with his chin on his chest, head unsupported. Plus if we were sick it was so much easier to get to a bucket than it is now.

Milk delivered to school first thing in little bottles and left in playground til break. Frozen in winter and on the turn in summer. Not to mention the holes in the foil where the birds had been helping themselves.

At age 10 DAYS I started taking DC out to dinner (Thai). And I always let the waitstaff take DC from me and walk around (they'd go to kitchen, bar, serve others while carrying DC etc).

I think in ten years time we will frown on the naughty step and realise this isn't any different to standing in a corner.

Can remember putting my sweet papers out of a hole in the bottom of the car.

Ah SirChen.... happy days ... 4 of us survived the hundreds and hundreds of miles in a smoke filled car... The smacking (a lot), the nylon nighties by the electric bar fires, with trailing and fraying flex...being fed Carnation milk as an additional feed before being weaned straight onto rusks and mashed boiled eggs at 3 months...peanuts and gob stoppers eaten in the car as we drove along without seat belts being worn,...baby using mums seat back as a standing aid so he could see out of the window which DB had his head and shoulders out of to let the air blow his hair.

My rebellions against the modern rules... Co-sleeping ... We never really had a sleepless night ( unless they were very ill) or bedtime squabbles. And weaning ( on apple purée) at 3 months..the HV said give her a teaspoon but she finished the pot and it seemed cruel not to start feeding her a bit of baby rice and puréed veg after that. Oh and letting my dd play naked in the garden with just wellies on in all weathers (even at 18 months she had sense enough that if she was cold she'd cover up ).

My sons' were born in 1987 & 1989. They were in cots in their own room from day one. Slept on their front. Breast fed for three months then formula as I went back to work. Bottles prepared each evening for the next 24 hours and heated in the microwave when needed. Weaned at 12 weeks with baby rice and rusks,(I bought granulated rusk so I couldn't eat them)! I was once woken by a neighbour as my son had been crying at the top of the garden for half an hour in his pram. I was the only mum on my HV list to use terry nappies, and my childminder wasn't too pleased that I did! Happy days.

Just remembered a school trip at age 10, (1971). We went round a chicken factory, from when the chickens' arrived, right through the 'process' to the end where we were each given a chicken portion to take home as a souvenir. I had mine for tea that night.

Some of the answer in 30 years time will be:
often given calpol, which had E122, E216, E214 in, why did it have to have red colouring in it?

Looking at porn websites - it was so easy to get round the computer security at school.

I was driven and picked up from everywhere, so I didn't go on a bus on my own until I was 16.

My parents always knew exactly where I was, they had a tracker on my phone. It was horrible. Even when I was at University they tracked me.

I loved fruit. One day some idiot decided it was full of poisonous sugar so I wasn't allowed much after that

I got Vit D deficiency as I had to have sun screen plastered on if I went in the garden even in March.

I'm a late 60s baby, was weaned at 3months, bottle fed, cars didn't have car seats - me and my brother used to stand in the back of the car but leaning over between the two front seats most of the time. My mum said when they went out in the car they just put the cot on the back seat, my mum smoked through her pregnancies, yep we got smacked, I'm sure we didn't have a healthy diet but that was because we were so fussy with our food - I would only eat sausages, cod, chips or potatoes, beans and tomato soup - didn't like veg or salad and I'm still not very keen on it now. we got sunburned a little each year but I still do now no matter how much sun tan lotion I put on. When we were out playing and were hungry we got given a jam piece and ate it with dirty hands, we only had a bath once a week too, we did get washed every day though but that was washed at the sink...

And after all that I'm fine, no ailments, have a normal life, I've not been harmed in any way, I'm still alive and after reading this so are a lot of other people... So why do we have all these new rules if we survived? Rules for the sake of it no doubt... Someone else in power thinks they know best... Wonder what rules we will have to live by in another 30 yrs...I also think we as people are our own worst enemy - we tend to judge others for what they do - let other people live how they want to live, just because they do something different to you doesn't mean what they do is wrong!

I was born in the early eighties and DM formula fed me and my older brother - she said with my brother they had to stay I'm hospital for 10 days after the birth and all the mums couldn't wait to get out so that they could start formula feeding instead of breastfeeding.

DM said they all used to smoke during pregnancy and one

Of her friends actually smoked extra to have a smaller baby for an easier birth :o

Oh god that was meant to be a shocked face not a bloody grin! I shouldn't be in mumsnet so early sorry!

Brandy for teething
Slept on tummy
Weaned at three months but then so were my own dd as it was within guide lines
Smoking in house
No central heating so house was colder than guide lines especially at night

Not a mum but: my mum would leave me asleep in my cot for short periods while going to church or taking my brothers to school. She said I was a bugger if woken up.

Oh yeah and my dad would smoke around us. I've seen the photos. I won't say 'did me no harm' as I did used to have a lot of chest infections.

oooh, not parenting, but does anyone else remember "one for the road" being de rigueur?

Speaking of driving, my grandfather refused to go the right way round new fangled roundabouts. And my great grandmother (driving in the 30's - one of the first women) told me later (I'm not quite that old) that she never indicated on her way home as "everybody knew where I lived so there was simply no need".

My mother remembers her parents frequently discussing how much to tip the staff at other people's houses. A minefield. You have to feel for them......

What happened to baby nests? I had them when my older 3 were babies. I think I brought them home from hospital in one.

Are they now deemed dangerous?

Re terry nappies, I remember being show in hospital, 1982, how to fold them for a boy, which was apparently different to a girl.

Re early weaning, I was told by a HV to make the teat hole bigger with scissors and add a bit of baby rice at six weeks to the last feed at night. So I did as I was a first time mum. It worked. Can you imagine being told to do that now?

In the 50's apparently we were given something called a dormel or dormal, which was a sort of dummy with a small reservoir which held honey or sugared water!

Ive just googled dormal dummies, looks like they are now ok, but for dispensing medicine!

storynanny never heard of the dummy but recognise the teat advice!

I remember my dad telling me that when he was first married he went out to get fish and chips and was rather pissed, whilst he was waiting for them a policeman came into the chip shop and asked whos car was parked on the pavement, it was my dads and he asked him to move it as it was parked at a bad angle, dad swayed out and did, nothing was said about him being pissed

I had no idea co sleeping is so frowned upon, I co slept with ds1 and would have with ds2 but he preferred his own bed.

Remember flying to the States as a child, and the whole family sitting in "smoking" because my Dad smoked. No one would have even considered for a moment going for non-smoking on the 7 hours flight, as it wouldn't have been nice for my Dad

Similarly, remember my Gran taking us to the cinema when we were tiny, and sitting in the smoking section.

As children we would sit in the boot (of an estate car) if there were too many passengers, because you'd obviously get children to sit there rather than an adult, who would find it harder to get in and out.

Remember people being outraged when the seatbelt for front seat passengers came in, and wondering if the police would REALLY make my Dad wear a seatbelt!

I was born in 1961. My sisters and I took ourselves to and from primary school from the age of five. It was only in the next road and we could do the journey without crossing any roads. Although that wouldn't have been a problem as there was almost no traffic anyway.

We were sent to the shop for 20 No 6 tipped cigarettes for Mum too. She claims it didn't happen often and she wouldn't have sent us except that the shopkeeper was a fellow school parent. How that makes it better I'm not sure.

In the 70's we were in the Guides. To get to camp Captain hired a furniture removal van. All the tents and kit bags were loaded into the back, then the guides clambered in and off we went. Captain following behind in her Dormobile with a few lucky (or unlucky depending how you looked at it) guides in the back.

Both my parents smoked around us and Mum smoked through all three pregnancies. They'd both given up by the time I was in my late teens though. I do have a tendency to chest problems but I was a smoker myself for many years.

In the late seventies a girl I was at school with had a baby. I went to visit and we smoked with the baby in the same room. Although we did retreat to the other end.

I was born in 1984 and I think my mum was one for following the current guidelines even then - I remember her being very judgey about a relative who weaned at 3 months because the official rule was 4 months.

I was put to sleep on my side (apparently tummy sleeping was out but "back to sleep" didn't start until early 90s), propped up with blankets and always wearing a knitted hat

Breastfed for 7 months and then straight on to full fat cow's milk

Weaned at 4 months on powdered baby meals that you just added water to

Carrycot on the backseat of the car

She can't remember any restrictions on what you ate in pregnancy but the midwife recommended a guinness every night for good quality breastmilk