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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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Housemum · 14/05/2016 23:37

AIBU to refuse to buy DD a Mr Frosty toy? I've told her that it doesn't make real drinks, it's poisonous.
AIBU to expect her to re-light the pilot light on the gas cooker when it goes out? She is 8 after all, and I don't get in from work till later

Ticktacktock · 14/05/2016 23:37

Pugh Pugh Barney McGrew Cuthbert Dibble and Grubb. My brother loves Trumpton, but I hate it, so I pushed him down the stairs. Again.

Samcro · 14/05/2016 23:40

Im a6 and my BF is 20(something) AIBU to think my dad is BU? he insists on picking me up at 9 and will not let me stay over and my BF house.
how dare he?

Walkingwounded · 15/05/2016 00:05

Aibu to put my eight yo in charge of the bar at a drinks party for a hundred of the neighbours?

If he drinks whiskey just to try it and passes out, it will be fine, since I have the 6 yo in reserve.

Dh has offered to check on him every half hour but then he has had a few, so I'll pop up myself in between reefers.

Yes that was my mother.

GingerMerkin · 15/05/2016 01:30

WasIBU to go and see Peter Powell open the new Top Shop and skive off school.

True - I did and won a copy of A Night at the Opera by Queen. We all queued up for autographs and kisses.

BananaInPyjama · 15/05/2016 02:15

AIBU to give my 9 year old a shopping list, the housekeeping money and get her to walk 3 miles to town on a Saturday, while I work.
After all it is her father's day off and he needs to relax at home and her 14 year old brother should not be made to do girl's chores. He would not be free anyway as he needs to hang around with his mates.
And when I return home in the afternoon, she should have put everything away and cooked dinner so my DH is fed and can continue to relax?

(My Saturday was always the bloody same- I hated it as I was rubbish at choosing meat. And I bitterly resented my brother's easy ride)

BananaInPyjama · 15/05/2016 02:17

And AIBU to think DD(9) should just walk away when a man exposes his bits to her in the ladies toilets at the park.

Honestly the fuss she made-she seemed horrified but its just part of life isn;t it? Why on earth would I want to report a flasher hanging around the kids part of the park to the police? What would they do about it?

crazycatguy · 15/05/2016 02:37

We love to spend a Saturday night together as a family watching TV. Am a bit worried though, so advice appreciated.

AIBU to turn off Larry Grayson's Generation Game in case it makes ds13 act a bit woofy?

sashh · 15/05/2016 04:47

AIBU my dd peeled ALL the potatoes.

She's not quite 7 and came home from school, |I'd told her to peel the potatoes before I came home from work but she peeled them all, is she stupid or simple?

I'll deride her to anyone who will listen until she is well in to her 40s. I mean she isn't a baby and now I'm working she has to contribute to the family.

wanderings · 15/05/2016 07:24

My bloody 8yo keeps on saying "Oh my God"! I mean, that's swearing of the highest order, His name is sacred! Which soap works best for washing her mouth out?

And WIBU to blindfold her as we walk through that part of the park where there are often flashers? I don't want her seeing male nudity until she is married off, for Pete's sake!

Janecc · 15/05/2016 07:42

My daughter came home telling me that the teacher put a long pen line on her neck because children and the teacher say she smells and the teacher wants the line gone by tomorrow. AIBU to give her a bath once a week? She is only 10. She rubbed the mark off herself and it's only Tuesday, she's not due her bath til Saturday. But she's kicking up a stink and wants a bath tonight. Really this is extreme, I work full time and I don't have time to wash her clothes or give her a bath in the week.

(Ok I'm making the mums part up, but the smelly kid, dirty clothes and pen line's true)

GrumpyOldBag · 15/05/2016 09:02

AIBU to allow my kids to watch TV for the whole of Saturday morning while I enjoy a lie-in. Tiswas with Chris Tarrant. Surely after-school on weekdays is enough?

x2boys · 15/05/2016 09:06

I was never allowed to watch tiswas it was always the multi coloured swap shop for us Sad

MissHooliesCardigan · 15/05/2016 09:36

I have just been to my neighbour's house and she tried to serve me this strange crescent shaped bread called a crassont. They're very popular in France apparently. I said No because I'm not keen on foreign food apart from Vesta curries. WIBU?
Stars We never had bubble bath or shampoo in our house- it was Fairy Liquid all the way.

Janecc · 15/05/2016 10:16

MissHoolies Shock for the fairy liquid.
I was never allowed to watch Tiswas either x2boys Sad the best bit of military coloured swap shop was Chegga.

peppansalt · 15/05/2016 11:13

Loved my 'long dresses' de rigeur for all sophisticated kids parties!

peppansalt · 15/05/2016 11:16

Tiswas was smut of the highest order in our homeHmm

And don't even get me started on Grange Hill. Work of the devil according to DM

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cleaty · 15/05/2016 12:59

AIBU to let my DCs watch as much TV as they want? After all the kids TV is only on on Saturday morning and a few hours every weekday?

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KittensandKnitting · 15/05/2016 15:29

I spent years desperate to watch Grange Hill!

x2boys · 15/05/2016 15:49

my mother thought itv was commen for some reason so we always had to watch bbc .

GrumpyOldBag · 15/05/2016 16:29

Got a very special exotic Italian treat for tonight's supper - a frozen pizza.

One should be enough to feed 4 people, right?

GrumpyOldBag · 15/05/2016 16:30

It was a tough choice on kids TV on Saturday mornings - between Noel Edmonds and Chris Tarrant. Bleughhh to both of them. 40 years on and they are still bleughhh.

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pearlylum · 15/05/2016 16:39

grumpy- of course it's enough to feed 4 people. Especially when served with mash and processed peas.

SoEverybodyDance · 15/05/2016 17:03

Was I being unreasonable to put the kids on bread and water for three days on our camping holiday? After all one of them drank the remains of the tonic water so there was nothing to have with our gin and none of them owned up...

(my sister finally owned up when she was about 40; we always knew it was her anyway as the rest of us hated tonic water).