A 1970s/80s AIBU?

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Just been reading the brilliant and nostalgic threads about all the things parents did then that would be massively judged now so thought it would be fun to start a 70s/80s AIBU

Want to join me..?

Here goes,

AIBU to not want to have the whole of the street come and watch a football match on our new black and white TV?

We are at Butlins. As you know, it is summer 1978. There's some kind of fancy dress going on. Def want to dress three year old DD up as "Mrs Mopp" - hilarious! Have lipsticked her cheeks, stuck my rollers in her hair and put her in a checked apron. We've even nicked a mop from the chalet for her to hold. But the shop does't have any sweet cigarettes, and she needs a fag in her mouth to complete the look. WIBU to pop a real one in there? It's not like she's really smoking it, and look at the competition - she's up against a smurf and a girl with a dress made out of copies of The Sun!

NB This actually happened. I won a set of Fuzzy Felt and a lifetime of non smoking.

AIBU to send my 8 year old DD across town in a pea-souper fog to practice her Brownie gang show moves and not consider it might be cancelled because of said fog, thereby leading DD to wait outside a cold dank church hall in the foggy dark for half an hour because she wasn't sure of what to do or where to go? And shout at her when she gets back because I got 'worried'?

AIBU to send my children into school with a packed lunch of jam or banana sandwiches, club biscuit, bag of crisps and a box of um bongo? That's a balanced meal, right?

Would it be okay for DH to pick up ten kids from dancing and stick three of them in the boot of his estate car, with one in the front, four on the back seat (2 sitting forward, 2 sitting back) and one lying across their knees? He's the only one with a car, it seems mean to leave a few of them to get the bus... My eldest DD is kicking off about DH not letting her use the seatbelt when she's in the front seat but I think she's been made paranoid by those silly Jimmy Savile clunk click adverts - after all, none of the other kids have a seatbelt at all...

AIBU to put ribena on my baby's dummy to help her to take to it?
Or to give her orange squash as she prefers it to water?
Or to leave her outside the supermarket in the pushchair whilst I shop as it's a nice day?
AIBU in thinking a poodle perm would compliment my stone washed jeans?
AIBU in thinking I should aim higher than a secretary?

AIBU to not want my pfb to play with clacker-balls anymore. I've read several stories in the Daily Mail of children breaking their wrists.

Aibu to take DS age 5 to see Jaws at the cinema? It won't affect him will it? Other than the nightmares and vomiting and long term obsession with all things Great White.

DFstill cant explain that one.

AIBU to take a cheese and pineapple hedgehog to the wine and cheese party one of our neighbours is having? I don't want to appear too sophisticated. Are chicken and prawn vol-au-vents 'U' or 'Non-U'?

Should we save for the G-Plan dinette set? Or should we just cash in our Green Shield Stamps for the one in their catalogue?

I would like brown hessian wall covering, DH wants a swirly green and purple paisley-type pattern. I usually like to do everything I can to please my husband, but I think I have to draw the line here. AIBU?

I had a baby 2 weeks ago. Today my boss phoned and had a go at me.
He said "I'm holding a job open for you here young lady"
AIBU to think he is out of order now that the new law has come in?

AIBU to be enjoying a drink with a business contact so much I forget to collect 11 yo DD and her friend from Guides and leave them standing at a roundabout in the dark until said business contact happens to ask how the family are. (Not my dad this time).

AIBU to let 6 week old DD2 suck the chocolate off a malteser (whilst I hold it, I'm not daft), as she's hungry but I can't feed her as we are in the car?

Should I let my DD have some Blockerboots? They don't look safe to me!

AIBU in thinking this teacher is correct and my daughter is being awkward - technical drawing IS a boys subject and she should be happy to take childcare and leave the technical stuff to the men

(me aged 14 in 1984 - although mum did challenge them they refused to budge - in the end I did cooking and got a U)

AIBU to just buy Robertson's jam? I'm saving up the labels for the free golliwog.
AIBU to cook a fray bentos pie in a tin for the second time this week or am I spoiling them?

AIBU to wean my baby onto ready salted crisps? After all they're not cheese and onion or anything.
She's 4 months old now and I'm a midwife, so I know all about babies.

AIBU to put my children in a MacLaren striped baby buggy that doesn't even have a proper brake, just a thing designed to stop it running away quite so fast, when I live in St Albans half way up a hill.

AIBU to let my 15 year old DD cash my child benefit at the post office and buy fags with it?

AIBU to let 17 year old DD do the school run for DS4 aged 4 on her way to work? She's only just passed her driving test, and she's never up in time to give him breakfast, but it's ok, he's perfectly happy having his cereal in the car in a huge salad bowl so that the milk doesn't slop over the sides.

AIBU to think that sugar sandwiches are OK if it's Demerara?

AIBU to accept the offer of going over the (young trendy married) sunday school leaders' house to watch Starsky and Hutch, cause my parents won't let me stay up to watch that, but would if I said I was doing bible study - this being the Sundayschool leaders suggestion.

Oh and AIBU to let seven year old DD babysit her two brothers aged 5 and 4 every week on a two mile walk to the shop?

AIBU to teach my children that they must always give up their seats on public transport if an adult is standing.

AIBU to not put a blanket down on the leatherette of our new, mustard yellow Datschun Sunny on hot days even though anyone sitting in it will lose the skin on the back of their legs?

Years of resentment. My parents loved that leatherette. I got revenge in the early 80s by jamming a mini babybel in between 2 seats on a hot day in France which stank it out and waxed up the precious faux leather.

Hmph Frozen. I can relate. My DM took me to Superman, not Fantasia when I was 3 and whispered 'We won't tell Daddy'. My Father took me to Octopussy instead of some suitable kids film and whispered 'We won't tell Mummy'.

I still have nightmares about James Bond.

And don't get me started on the time they took me to Barbarella when I was about 5 (?) and the time they took me to Fatal Attraction and told the film attendant I was not underage I was actually a dwarf. (true story. Not big on sensitivity back then).

AIBU to leave my 4 and 2 year old sitting on the windowsill with a cup and teaspoon, eating cocoa powder and sugar mixed together.

Hey any of you judgey pants at least I took the newborn baby with me (this time)

AIBU to fold down the back seat of the car, and put in the double blow up mattress for the kids to sleep on?

Of course I'll make it up properly with sheets and blankets etc.

It's just that it's an 8 hour journey to the ILs and we CBA listening to them squabbling in the back the whole way.

There are 4 of them, but then the more tightly they are squeezed in, the less likely they r to roll about when we break, swerve etc.

AIBU to want more pink? I am fed up with wearing brown, green and orange.