What are your unpopular opinions that most mumsnetters don’t agree with?

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Curious to know what opinions you see constantly on mumsnet that you think “Am I the only person that disagrees with that!?”

I live in Bolton ,and it seems to me that any drink that isn't water or milk is known colloquially as pop ,well that's what I got asked for when I was a nurse ,so fruit juice ,cordial ,lemonade etc was all pop
But having been brought up in Bury Pop to me was always the fizzy stuff .

Agree. TV is so fragmented today that it doesn't bring people together in the way it used to. And yes there's more choice now, except not really, because there's so much crap on TV and it's harder to identify what's actually worth watching. I don't particularly feel that the quality of programming has gone up.

And TV sets have become so complicated because of it, the endless menus etc. Without wanting to sound 80 (I'm not 😄) I miss the days when you could just put it on and watch it - although I don't miss the days of no remotes, and have vivid recollections, as the only child in our family in the 70s, of having to do all the switching on/off/up/down/over. 😣😄

Graham Linehan apparently.

I don't think that paying rent makes adult children equal decision makers in their parents' home.

It's not equally their house, they don't own it

They almost never take an equal share in running the house.

They therefore don't get the same privileges.

And don't get me started on the idea that they have the "right" to have their "partners" to stay all the time.

Who really cares about sleep suits? I’m surprised opinions exist🤷‍♀️

So basically some people are decent, some aren’t? Seems like an odd way to say that.

So much more exciting too when a TV drama ended on a cliff hanger,and you had to wait a week orcin the case of Dynasty/ Dallas a whole year ( if it was the end of season) to find out what the outcome would be rather thsn just streaming the next episode..

I found the job with no help from anyone, I managed my own finances from the day I started work, and I don't recall asking my parents for any type of help. One of my friends was married at 17, and had only just turned 18 when her first child was born - she's still married to the same man. My DF started his working life at 14.

Adult levels of life experience, reasoning etc. come from living and experiencing life - we don't all need adults hovering over us telling us what to do and wringing their hands about us "being children."

Agree so much that it’s so fragmented and doesn’t pull people together at all like it used to

Also - actually- kids born early 70s like me DIDNT have just 3/4 TV channels back in the day. We had 2

which kid on earth watched BBC2 /channel 4 then?

Sorry but just because I don’t agree with abortion for accidental pregnancy such as a result of contraception failure doesn’t make me weirdly gatekeepy. If someone wants
to abort for that reason that’s up to them. I don’t need to agree with it.

I agree, but I don’t miss the days when if you missed something you missed it, and that was that. Even with VCRs you had to remember to set your programme to record and sometimes you made a mistake or programme schedules got changed because something had overrun so it didn’t record.

I really miss those days of discussing at work what happened last night on TV and what we thought was going to happen next week.

Fair point!

We rarely had fizzy drinks growing up.
I remember bieng all excited if you visited someone else's house and they asked if wanted pop. Yes please! And then bieng so dissapointed at bieng given squash instead :(

Manners matter - they show respect for other people
Children should not be allowed to run wild and should be taught how to behave
There is nothing wrong with wanting to visit/hold a new baby (if no illness, smoking etc)
Never allowing your baby/child to be looked after/stay overnight with a trusted friend or relative is ridiculous
Thinking you are the only person in the universe who can be trusted to look after your own child is ridiculous (see above)
Never wanting to spend a minute away from your child is ridiculous (see above)
Correct punctuation, spelling and grammar are important - they prevent misunderstandings

One sitting room with one TV. We watched what our parents chose after about 7pm, including the news.

Also, I actually do believe that it is your responsibility as a parent to provide your 17yr old with the resources to learn to drive, if not a good leg up for a car. It is an essential skill to gain employment in many different industries and careers - at 17, they are still a minor, and as such parents still have responsibilities to assist them to reach full independence at 18, which I believe includes equipping them with the life skill that is driving. I have so far taught all my children to drive and get their driving license at 17, and will continue to do so for the remainder of my children. To not do so, I feel would be neglecting my parental duty.

Putting a baby/toddler into nursery five days a week is not healthy, parent's need for a certain lifestyle does not trump needs of infant.

Breast feeding is best.

Supporting Labour.

I just don’t understand the viewpoint of ‘nearly all cases of autism and SEN are just down to parenting’ My DS flaps his arms and hands constantly, he spends hours saying the exact same phrase from a book or television programme over and over and over to himself, he makes high-pitched sounds repeatedly, loud noises make him unbearably stressed. How could any of this be down to the way he’s been parented? Why does his brother, who has been parented the same, not have these issues. I know multiple parents of SEN kids and all of their children have similar traits or a range of symptoms- it’s never just ‘challenging behaviour’ alone (and that would not obtain a diagnosis!). Some parents have a completely non-verbal ten-year-old whilst their other 2 children were speaking beautifully and articulately at age 3- again, how is this parenting??

Honestly I disagree with most of the things I read on here nowadays.

People seem to be so rigid in their thinking, completely incapable or understanding or even accepting nuance in their own lives let alone others.

Having to explain your position multiple times because people refuse to read what you've written or only have the capacity to compare it infavourably to their own lives. Exhausting.

I am popping up the shops later to buy bright cushions to add pops of colour for the sitting room. My pops is driving 🙄

I completely agree with you op, pop is an awful word.

Very true I was watching all sorts of thing,s I shouldn't really of beern watching, The Thorn birds,Tenko etc from an early age

Dogs should be kept out of public spaces that serve or sell food, play parks, school grounds, public transport, garden centres - generally, I think that dogs should only be allowed in places specifically created and/or allocated/specified for dogs to allow people who don’t want to, to not have to encounter them.

Not on here but I've asked the same question. No one can answer. In my case I do have something (I think a lot of us in our 30s+ were diagnosed with Autism first ) where the genes are similar to Autism and virtually everyone with it will have traits of Autism.