To wonder what my mum was playing at to give me Ribena as a baby?

[Hotmad]

Mum asked me if I gave my 3 month old any Ribena in a comforter type dummy??? She used to do that for me!! Apparently there was baby Ribena about 30 years ago!
What other ideas from the past so you know of that would never be done now?

My mum used to give us lucozade when we were I'll to make us feel better. I seem to remember it being sold for this purpose.

Those chocolate cigarettes with the white sugar paper used to come in a mock cigarette packet! No wonder I started smoking in my teens ( bad hotmad I know! But I've stopped now!)

Oh yeh and I used to eat sugar sandwiches (oh was that just me?)

scrappy mine too!! Whenever I was ill, she'd go to shops and come back with bottle of lucozade, lockets and soup hahahahahaha

Sugar sandwiches wasn't just you Hotmad.

We also had the cut off corner of a paper bag, filled with sugar mixed with cocoa powder, that we could dip our fingers in to eat. Although I suppose it's no worse that chocolate when you think about it.

I still associate Lucozade with vomiting - no wonder I hate the vile sticky stuff.

My grandma used to ask the butcher for a bit of pork or bacon fat for the baby (my mum!) to chew on in the 60s!

My MIL is fixated on giving dd (9 months) baby ribena, no amount of repetition of 'it's advised against' will convince her!

I think as a child of the 1980s I was solely fed potato waffles and garden peas...

yep there was calpol at least 24 years ago as I gave it to ds1,

as a child of the 70s at school:

teachers smoked, sometimes in the classroom.
teachers smacked you when they felt like it, and hard

no seatbelts, no car seats, buses were open at the back and we used to swing out over the road holding into the rail.
chocolate cigarettes and sweets galore, brushed my teeth as/when.

sat outside the offie having coke and crisps while parents had a beer.
walked to school and left school by myself at 6 onwards, no one checked who picked you up it was bell ring and fuck off.

school trips in teachers car with no permission slips.

police stopped you as and when and thumped your black boyfriend as he 'looked trouble' West Mids police.

sat on the 'dim table' if you got your sums wrong, presume the kids were 'special needs' but were called dim by kids and teachers.

shocking really.

I used to get a lot of mouth ulcers when I was little (in the 70s) and my grandad used to pack my gums with whiskey soaked cotton wool balls!

lucozade aids recovery anyone else remember that.

Sad - I do, and the bottles were wrapped in orange cellophane.

My child minder used to give me a hot toddy on occasion. She also gave me a boiled sweet when I was 3 and I chocked on it.

The '70's were great!

Also I was put in brown dungarees, did my mum love me at all!!

And teachers threw the board rubber at you for talking.

And sometimes it hit you - if you were lucky it just covered you with chalk, if you were unlucky it caused cuts/bruising (and possible concussion) but no one cared because the teacher was right.

Ah yes the cellophane. My DM denies it now but I remember.…

Oh Hot she loved you, and brown dungarees were seriously cool!

Was there an actual drink drive limit back in the 70s early 80s ? because I remember everyone driving on nights out and still drinking,

When I was eight my favourite 'game' was dismantling and cleaning the parts of the gas fire and putting it back together all shiny and polished!

WTF!

My mum retains an enduring hatred for Glaxo Smithkline because of the way they marketed Ribena as being good for babies. She used to give it to both me and my brother and he has no fillings (mid thirties) and I only have one which was from wearing a brace, but even that hasn't diminished her anger!

I agree Artos there was Calpol 30 years ago. My niece is 30 and I remember she was given it and so were my 3 daughters now 22, 24 and almost 27. I didn't give them tea or fizzy drinks when they were babies.

My brother and I used to get a chocolate smoker's kit every Christmas. It contain pack of chocolate cigarettes wrapped in white paper, cigars, lighter, pipe. The cigars and cigarettes had shiny red paper wrapped round the end, with textured grey flecks on it, to look as though they were lit.

We also had sweet tobacco, which was strands of coconut covered in some kind of brown sweet sugary stuff and came in a pack like an oz of Old Holborn.

Happy days (smile)

Hotmad, I loved my brown dungarees! They were corduroy too, super cool

yes pinky and I was made to chew the chalk after chewing gum in class!

yes was hit by the black board rubber too.

I had brown dungarees too with 'have a happy day' on them!

my dad would go to my uncles house and have lots of whiskey and drive us home mum was on the babysham. he was chatty. must have been 1976.. happy times.

yes corduroy!! must have been popular.