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AIBU in the 1970s

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cleaty · 12/05/2016 16:59

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?

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Vardyparty · 14/05/2016 00:22

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Bananasinpyjamas1 · 14/05/2016 00:23

Agatha High Street! (Actually this did really happen... 1971 - But no idea where in London...)

GarlicShake · 14/05/2016 00:29

I was a nanny in the 1970s, Vardy, and helped raise my numerous younger siblings. My mum wasn't keen on boozy baby bottles, but we did it when desperate. Very many of my friends' parents did it routinely. My French nanny agency approved of it (must be cognac!) in the baby's bedtime bottle, and I was considered strict for choosing not to do it every night.

YY to brandy on teething gums, too. Gripe water was half alcohol in those days. We had alcoholic mums coming into Boots for pint bottles of gripe water!

Vardyparty · 14/05/2016 00:35

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GarlicShake · 14/05/2016 00:39

Yeah, OK, I'm making up complicated lies just to piss you off. And so are lots of other posters Hmm

maggiecate · 14/05/2016 00:42

AIBU to be cross that the shop say my husband has to come and sign the agreement to rent a telly? He has to work!

And AIBU to think the kids should be grateful they're not on the bus when they moan that it's a squash when there's four of them on the back seat of the mini?

GarlicShake · 14/05/2016 00:48

In a similar vein ... AIBU to refuse to fetch my granddad more than one bottle of Collis Browne's a day? He says it helps with his illness - and it does. But my boss at Boots says all the old men are addicted and it'll ruin his liver.

What do you think? Let an old man feel calm & pain-free all day, or try to prolong his life against his will? He's getting on a bit, he's 65.

GarlicShake · 14/05/2016 00:50

four of them on the back seat of the mini? - We did an extended camping tour of Europe like this!

Tell them to settle down and count lorries to pass the time. Make sure the doors lock properly though, my youngest brother keeps falling out.

wickedlazy · 14/05/2016 01:45

"No one I know thought it was ok to.put alcohol in babies bottles in th he 70s."

No one YOU knew...

saffronwblue · 14/05/2016 01:59

AIBU to explain to my year 6 class that communism means that you are not allowed to have your own tv but 'the right wing' believe that you can choose your own tv? And that if their parents vote for Labour, then the communists will control the family TVs ?
(Australia in the early 70s).

DioneTheDiabolist · 14/05/2016 02:04

AIBU to not let DD go watch the riots at the top of the road? She is complaining that all of the other kids are allowed to go, but I think it's just too dangerous for her. She's more bookish than streetwise.

(Belfast)

MissManagement · 14/05/2016 02:37

AIBU to wake my Dhubby up every morning by lovingly inserting a lit Benson & Hedges into his mouth while he's still unconscious? DD says it's a fire risk, but she's just being an uppity brat with her la-di da ideas isn't she?

(Yes DD was teenaged moi and that was my DM. Sad

Janecc · 14/05/2016 05:43

Vardy I don't know what you meant by saying the post is "full of blocks". Everything I said was completely factual. And everything else rings very true too.

frumpet · 14/05/2016 07:16

The alcohol in baby bottles for teething /colic was something I did in the early 90's as suggested by the very old (to me at the time ) GP . My friend also drank a small bottle of guiness every day when pregnant as instructed by her consultant in the early 90's .

dailymailcuntsLaineylou · 14/05/2016 07:16

Aibu? All my friends think I am ridiculously safety conscious because I insist that when DD is in her carry cot in the back seat of the car, it needs to be held on with bungee cords.

6 years later: AIBU to transport DD and DS on long journeys in the back of our Transit van. They're on sunloungers so it should be fine providing we don't brake too hard right?

DawgDawg · 14/05/2016 07:29

AIBU to put the bleach back under the sink?

Toddler DD just drank some, it was only a bit.

Last week it was buttons, shes obviously inquesitive.

WizardOfToss · 14/05/2016 07:29

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sashh · 14/05/2016 07:33

AIBU or is Ben on that beefburger advert just knows exactly how to treat a woman and at such a young age.

And burgers with '80% meat' - almost as good as steak. Well no one eats steak at home do they?

dentydown · 14/05/2016 07:41

Aibu to want my daughter referred to the hospital. The GP has diagnosed hyperactivity and told me to cut out cows milk and chocolate. I should give her orange squash because it's natural. I have suggested we get the hospital to investigate but Dr KnowAll says he read several articles in the BMJ about hyperactivity and if we go to the hospital she'll be stigmatised and have to go to special school and not amount to much.

(it turned out to be aspergers, and my secondary school life was hell on earth thanks)

Janecc · 14/05/2016 08:15

The recollection of this one made me cry.

AIBU to be happy that my 9 year old daughter has finally stopped wingeing about her back hurting. Yes, I know she accidentally stood on the bench whilst jogging on the spot in PE and threw herself backwards onto a concrete floor. The doctor says nothing is wrong. Really I don't have time for hypocondriacs. I'm too busy vacuuming my sons mattress everyday and hoovering and dusting the entire house because my son has a dust mite allergy, which makes him sneeze a bit. Oh and ofcourse when he gets croup I really must devote all day and night to him steaming the room and playing monopoly. Now that's a real illness, not a bit of back pain. It's not as though she broke anything in her back like I did when playing hockey in my teens. That girl is so exasperating.

Said girl suffered back pain all her life and now has fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.

glamorousgrandmother · 14/05/2016 08:48

I never put whiskey in my babies bottle in the 70s and neither did anyone else I know. This thread is full of blocks.
You didn't but some people definitely did. A friend of mine who used to babysit at Butlins was asked by a mother to put strong cough mixture into a baby's bottle - probably Collis Brown. That stuff was infamous and also used by drug users when they couldn't get anything better.

saffronwblue · 14/05/2016 09:08

That Rock Hudson - such a manly man!

x2boys · 14/05/2016 09:13

AIBU to ask my son to bring the baby around the back when he visits he only married his wife six months ago What will the neighbours think? This was my grandmother to my dad asking him to bring my sister around the back in 1972 he told her he either brought her to the front door or he didn't bring her Smile

SirChenjin · 14/05/2016 09:34

AIBU to expect the kids to have slept for a bit longer on the journey to our hiday home? We folded down the back seats on the Viva and made them a lovely bed on the floor of the boot. Left at 4 am and they were wide awake, waving to the lorry drivers and complaining about the ciggie smoke in the car, by 5. Very annoying.

(Another true block)

RuthyToothy · 14/05/2016 09:40

There's some naked arrogance in this thread, isn't there? 'I don't recall seeing such a thing in my experience, therefore it cannot ever have been known to happen to anyone else.' Hmm

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