AIBU in the 1970s

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I grew up in the 1970s, the age of relaxed and free range parenting. If mumsnet had existed then, what do you think mums would have asked in AIBU?

I'm a bit worried about dd. She has bronchitis, the dr says, but I think it's whooping cough. He laughed at me and said at 9 she is too old. He has never seen her have an attack and says she is a hypochondriac. Wibu to ask to see another doctor? I know he's the professional and knows best, but he does irritate me sometimes. And I dont think smoking his pipe when he examines her is very good for her chest.

X2boys, I have a teasmaid now, in 2016. It us fab. I quite like Matteus Rose too!

So - AIBU - we want to go out with our friends tonight and move from house to house with starter (prawn cocktail), main (duck a l'orange) and dessert (black forest gateau) at different houses. I said it would be fine to put the kids (6 & 8) to bed then pop back every half hour to check they're ok. DH reckons once an hour would be OK.

Who is right?

Willconcern I think that's fine, though many will disagree. Just make sure you teach them how to use a chip pan safely first, and check the chair they're standing on when they do is a good solid one.

silverpenny
I really want artex ceilings but dh says they are to expensive?

your DH is being unreasonable - Artex will last forever so will be fabulous value for money.

I make all DD1's clothes myself, aged 6 she's never worn anything that isn't white, hand-smocked or hand-crotcheted and hand-embroidered by me. i'm so proud of myself that I can fit into some of DD1's clothes, it means i'm not fat like other people. I also hand-wash everything because washing machines and dryers are for lazy people, and I prefer scrubbing floors to using a mop or a vacuum cleaner, they're for lazy types who can't get down on their knees. I cook a 4-course meal from scratch every night for when DH comes home from work. The doctor says I need to put on weight and that I should dress the baby in things that can be washed in a machine, that DD1 should be allowed to wear school uniform rather than special dresses, and I should relax more. He's just stupid and doesn't understand proper standards.

My mother is on Mumsnet!

Just got a new bomber jacket, pretend leather with elasticated cuffs and everything. I look really cool.

Am hoping to be wearing it when I pick up Debbie Harry. She's in a band called Blondie, but AIBU in thinking they won't last and she'll need a shoulder, amongst other things,to cry on?

Madam!! Titter ye not.

I 100% guarantee that if you artex your ceiling you will never regret it, nor will anyone else who subsequently buys your house. Also, if you plan on putting woodchip wallpaper on your walls, make sure you really stick it on good and proper with the strongest wallpaper glue available. Otherwise people will be cursing you in the future for it lifting off too easily.

AIBU to let my almost two year old play with the rusty garden shears and her dad's new lawnmower? The next door neighbour says I shouldn't and that she is going to report me to the village GP ... again!

NotBad You clearly gave advice to the people who lived in our last house before us. Fucking MONTHS of scraping the cunting stuff off.

To be sad that the DC have nowhere exciting to play now that the new housing estate has been finished. DD (6) made a lovely little house out of breeze blocks & I was very impressed with the roof though the end breeze block does fall off a bit.
(True story we were always playing on building sites.)

I'm also annoyed that the pop man is retiring as it means I'll have to get the kids' cider from the offie now. It's far cheaper from the pop man's lorry and the kid's go through loads of it at the weekend.
(True stepdad said cider wasn't alcoholic.)

Aibu to keep feeding my husband normal food. He's just come back from the doctor with a "diet sheet". Apparently he has a bad heart and has to eat chicken breast and boiled potatoes of all things. There are so many things on the list like cottage cheese, he can only have two eggs a week! Oh and he's onle allowed 2-3 glasses of beer a week!
Is this a new thing? He did see a woman doctor so I think that has something to do with it.
I'm doing boiled bacon tonight and he'd better eat it!

My DH had a go at me for asking him to pick up some groceries on the way back from work, feel angry aibu?. I wouldn't ask normally but the lads who work Leyland where he is manager haven't been in for weeks and he spends most the day asleep in the plant offices. I know his work is very important though and I should walk a long way to the shops with dc as driving lessons for me are not "realistic"

denty a women doctor! Can you change surgeries?

There is a girl in our street who is a bit tarty. She wears really short skirts and lots of make up. She has accused DP of touching her. AIBU to know she is making it all up?

I organised a trip to the seaside for kids at our social club. The bus driver dropped them off and we told them what time to be back for the bus. At home time, 5 kids still hadn't appeared. We waited 15 minutes for them, but when they didn't appear, we told the bus driver to take us back home. AIBU to be annoyed that the parents of the kids were angry at us for leaving their kids behind? We did tell them what time to be back at the bus after all.
(true story)

NotBad You clearly gave advice to the people who lived in our last house before us. Fucking MONTHS of scraping the cunting stuff off

Noooooooooo - artex sometimes has asbestos in it and you really shouldn't scrape it off unless you're a trained professional with proper gear. The safest thing to do is to get a plasterer to skim over the top..

I think she meant the wood chip?

AIBU for thinking that 'chocolate drop' is a perfectly acceptable term of endearment for the kids to call the new brown boy in the school? He's causing quite a stir in the village - we're getting very cosmopolitan.

AIBU to get concerned about the family across the road draping a Flag of St George out of their upstairs window? It means NF right? Please bring on the day when it can just mean a show of patriotism, esp at times of footbal competitions.

AIBU in being annoyed that every time my SIL comes to stay, she turns over the TV if the Black and White Minstrels are on? She says it is racist, but I think it is good family entertainment.

Not an AIBU. But I am so worried about my DD. She is entering a mixed marriage. We are protestant and her BF is catholic. I am worried sick. Please advise.

Oh yes, the building sites...

AIBU to let my children play on the building site around the corner during the summer holidays. There are quite a few of them that go there, so a lorry or digger would see them if they were anywhere near.

It's 30 degrees today and they've got a small bottle of pop between the 6 of them - feel very organised sorting that out today!

Yes, I did mean the wood chip, all 300 square feet of it.

My 7 year old do came home from school today telling me her teacher had slapped her across the legs for being cheeky. When I asked her what she has done she told me she had drawn a picture of the teacher in art and the teacher didn't like it! The handprints are only just still visible. Aibu to just tell her to stop being silly and go and play?