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?

AIBU to want to try and breast feed my baby? DM says that it's only for poor people and that formula is much better for him.

I'm a single parent of two Dc aged 7 and 5 and I work full-time in an office. AIBU to ask to my neighbour to hold a key and let them into the house when they walk back from school at 3.30pm? I'll be home by 5.30pm so they only have to entertain themselves for a couple of hours. I'll leave bread and jam in the kitchen so they can make a snack and they can watch Little House on the Prairie. My ds does tend to bully dd, but I'm sure she'll be ok. It'll just be for the next ten years or so.

WIBU to shout at the customs officer for trying to stop me bringing our 2 pet budgies back to England from Germany, refuse to give him our address and making a quick getaway in the gold fiesta?

The DC would have been so upset to have them taken away or quarantined!

Icanteven As long as you only use the cabbage wallpaper on three walls, and do the fourth wall in a differently patterned wallpaper you're fine. YABU if you use the same wallpaper for the whole room, or say something daft like 'why not paint it a nice restful cream colour'.

AIBU to hope that ds listens to Charlie and never talks to strangers?

AIBU to send my 9 year old round the neighbourhood knocking on doors to sell photographs from her Sunny Smiles* booklet? I doubt she will come to any harm and the worst that could happen is she might annoy someone.

*Sunny Smiles was a charity in the 70s. Schools asked their pupils to sell booklets containing photographs of "deprived" children. Each person would choose the photo of the child they liked the look of most.

So after my pressure cooker blew up I decided to replace it with a healthier gadget. I've bought a yoghurt maker but the family are complaining cos the yogurt is thin and not as tasty as strawberry or toffee flavoured Ski. Wibu to hurl the yoghurt at them and pour myself a babycham?

AIBU to think kids should never go inside pubs but should quietly sit outside with a bottle of lipsmackingacetastinhighwalkinfastlivincoolrefreshing Pepsi?

Also do you think pubs should open in the afternoon? I think it will lead to mass drunkenness myself.

Which brand of deep fat fryer would you recommend?

AIBU in thinking nobody needs more then one bath a week on a Sunday night before school or work is just fine ?

Baths - everyone knows it's once a week in winter and twice in summer.

AIBU to dress DD in a knee length orange A-line Crimplene dress with matching elasticated hairband? She hates it but I think it's very a la mode, and so easy to wash in the twin tub. She is only 16 so it's perfectly reasonable for me to choose what she wears.

Shudders at the though of the 1970s.

When women couldn't get credit or a mortgage in their own name without a male guarantor.
When it was legal to pay women less than men for the same job.
When women could be sacked for becoming pregnant.
When raping a women was OK if it was your wife.
When police would write off abuse of women as " domestic" issues.
When consenting homosexual sex was a criminal offence.
When teachers had the right to beat children.

And we thought Angel Delight was a treat.
Ah the good old days.

AIBU to not want DH to use the expensive real leather slippers I got him for Christmas to spank the DC with? They cost £20 ! And I'm worried it will ruin the leather...

My dd has been completely traumatised by some cine films she's been shown at school. There was one about not climbing pylons and another about a talking squirrel telling them to take care crossing the road. They've given her nightmares! Should I complain?

AIBU to use cooking oil on my children to get them a lovely healthy looking tan? Given the heatwave we are having here in 1976, it's a perfect opportunity to get some colour on them?

Also, I have a Mini Clubman, is it ok to carry my 3 children in the back with their four friends in the boot? Someone said I should just leave them to walk back from the shops themselves. It's only four miles so I normally would, but I've left the chip pan on so I want to get back before dinner is burned.

DH has painted the lounge walls in orange, but I think one wall would look better if it was lime green. WIBU to ask him to paint over one orange wall? He's so proud of it, and I don't want to upset him. (The green paint I like matches the curtains, and the sofa is brown corduroy).

Aibu to drive to the pub and leave the kids in the car? They are too young to go in. I leave the window open and give them squash and crisps

AIBU to let my 7yr old DD watch public information films? She saw one about the railway and has had nightmares, but I think they are good for her.

Is it OK to put the kids in the boot of our Renault? It's not a very big car, but we want to go for a day out with the grandparents and there isn't anywhere else for them to sit. I don't think it is a problem, they can fit in among the picnic things and tool kit.

AIBU to just fuck off with whomsoever I fancy on a whim and drag my small children along with me?

Aibu in thinking smoking during pregnancy is just fine ?

AIBU to take a note to the corner shop for my DM for ten Dr Whites with loops and bring them home in a brown paper bag.

AIBu to wear a BHS nightie for a party age 8 as I had never been a bridesmaid like other girls so had no pretty party dresses?

AIBU to use the chip pan every night for real chips?

AIBU to not drive to Cornwall in the back of a Ford transit sat on a bench with 5 siblings, a budgie and a dog, unrestrained because it is our only holiday?

That wasn't me actually but a dear friend, her Irish parents and siblings.

My mum is being SOOOO unreasonable! When DSis and I ride in her car, we have to sit in- get this- CAR SEATS! I'm 4, I'm way too big for this! Daddy doesn't even wear a seat belt!