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Things you've noticed that are frowned upon on mums net

333 replies

ChitterChatter1987 · 21/04/2025 22:52

I'll go first 😆

-Kids sharing rooms
-Complaining about schools or teachers
-Feeling upset about a friend hurting you
-Having more than 1 kid on an income under circa 50-100k, or having more than two on an income under circa 100-150k
-Renting long term
Complaining about dogs being given human rights.
Complaining about grandparents care of DC's 'because it's free so like it or lump it!'

OP posts:
Cherrytree86 · 03/05/2025 13:36

Speckyfourfries · 02/05/2025 19:58

Feeding your kids McDonalds
Smoking
Inlaws
Windchimes
DH having a hobby
Being overweight

@Speckyfourfries

yes! If a blokes dares to go for a run or go to gym he’s taking the piss and shirking his duties to his family

Dontlletmedownbruce · 03/05/2025 13:52

Just being nice for the hell of it with no agenda. MN: 'Women are conditioned to be nice! Men are never expected to be nice, be kind is a gendered term' etc. Maybe there is social conditioning, but on balance isn't that a good thing that people are nice to each other?. Surely as a society we should also expect men to be equally nice, not ridicule women who are. A predisposition towards empathy and kindness should be valued. Wouldn't we be all happier if we were kinder to each other. At least it would stop all those 'are people getting ruder' threads.

Livpool · 03/05/2025 14:25

Disliking dogs
Liking dogs
Answering your front door
Having people in your house without the slippers you provided
En suites
Pooing anywhere that isn’t your own toilet at home
Someone using your toilet
Renting long term
Letting family or friends meet your baby less than 2 months after birth
Children in general unless they are always well behaved and colouring a colouring book while out
Liking your husband/male partner

Livpool · 03/05/2025 14:29

AInightingale · 02/05/2025 23:11

whaaa??? Wine is practically a food group on here.

Only if you drink less than 1 whole bottle over the course of a year. Anything else and you should be in recovery

AInightingale · 03/05/2025 16:14

I remember a thread on here about noise from neighbours (for a change) and people saying they never raised their voices in the house, and someone saying they had never once shouted upstairs, and that they phoned their children if their food was ready or they wanted to attract their attention.

musicismath · 03/05/2025 17:34

Livpool · 03/05/2025 14:29

Only if you drink less than 1 whole bottle over the course of a year. Anything else and you should be in recovery

A WHOLE BOTTLE? EVERY YEAR? I think you're in denial about your drinking habits. 😉😄

AInightingale · 04/05/2025 08:15

Tumbledriers, even in the dead of winter
Central heating thermometers set above 17 degrees.

Sunsweetsandandicecream · 08/05/2025 18:52

Despising everybody else's children apart, from their own. They're all apparently running feral, and screeching at every opportunity, with parents glued to screens. Oh god forbid you even own a screen, no tvs upstairs, one TV per household, and not on the wall is mandatory. Food in the kitchen only, or you'll have vermin, and if this is together with owning a gaming console, you're the "fun-house" all DCs want to hang out at.

Dog owners using their dogs as a comparison to children, a sort of defensiveness, and vice versa.

If you're a SAHM, you're leaving yourself vulnerable financially and will end up destitute, when your dh runs off with a younger model. If you're a working Mum, you're neglecting your children, and God forbid if you don't work 'and' have your dc in childcare part of the week.

All men are sexual predators, lurking on every corner, and invading personal space regularly. Carrying pepper spray in your purse, and keys in your hands are common place here.

Lots of judgement on neighbours' gardens, and how tidy they are, eg, "number 22 has no flowers, they could make more effort, they're bringing the neighbourhood house value down."

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