AIBU To Point Out Opinions You Don’t See Outside Of Mumsnet …?

[D0ntB1t3]

So I have noticed that according to (a lot of posters on) Mumsnet:

-Transphobia is perfectly acceptable.
-Ageism is the worst/most prevalent type of discrimination going on in the uk today.
-Cheating in a relationship is tantamount to murder.
-Enrolling your children in boarding school means you don’t love them.
-Teaching is always a miserable profession, with no exceptions.

What else have you noticed is a very common MN opinion but not one you hear in real life?

I’m not trying to start an argument on the truth of any of these statements, just curious what others have noticed.

I feel like we are stuck in a loop!

I am taking part in a discussion. And I don't think I need to worry about leaving my kids in another room as they are all adults.

A discussion means guilt apparently!

So what’s your point about leaving babies alone?

Huh?? What apparently have I said?

Wow, why are you being so rude? Can you not have a debate without resorting to personal attacks?

There are too many crossed wires so I’m bowing out.

I don’t think you should leave babies alone in a strange place.

That's ok that's your opinion. I don't think they should be left alone but don't see any problem with them asleep with a baby monitor in the same building. What's the difference from being at hone

apologies if I quoted the wrong person!

yes, it's exactly the same, to be in the same house or in a hotel.

You know it's not, and if that's the best you can find to justify what is odd behaviour, it's not looking great.

No worries 😊

What would worry me is, say you were in the restaurant on the ground floor and your child was on the 2nd or 3rd floor. You can see and hear them on the monitor, but if they start choking or someone gets in the room and harms or takes them, it'll take you a few minutes to get to them and it might be too late. It's not like having a baby monitor at home where an intruder would probably have to pass you, or you could be upstairs in seconds.

And what if they were " choking" at home? While you were in the bath or watching a film. ? You might not find out immediately then either

Only on mumsnet do I ever hear about babies randomly choking in their sleep. Not something that happened to my 3 or to any of my 5 grandchildren either to my knowledge

@Yellowpapersunour friends did it when we were away with them & their room was on the same floor of the restaurant, around the corner.

One of mine had a febrile seizure which terrified me & I moved them back into my room & would set alarms to check them through the night in case it happened again & they chocked on vomit etc. I became exhausted obviously & my GP & my GP family members were like you have to relax & realise you cannot control everything and need to stop catastrophising. I did become a more relaxed parent after that.

Why "choking"? Do you think it's something that never happens just because it's never happened to your family?

Don't push it.

There's 188 babies who died from SIDS every year in the UK alone.
It's not "nothing".

The constant gnashing of teeth on the trans issue is just not present in any of my actual life. And the transwomen I know are nothing like the trans activists which posters post about on here. Most of their information seems to come from digging things out of Reddit, and finding absurd examples.

It’s a wild ride over on the feminism board.

Isn’t the point that it could happen but living your life based on could is largely impossible? My dc could have had another febrile seizure, they could have choked but I couldn’t spend every future evening waking up repeatedly to check and hoping that I didn’t miss it between alarms.

I don’t even understand this response.

Well I don't think it happens as much as people on here seem to worry about it. Neve in real life have I heard of a baby randomly choking and something happening to them due to it. I mean I've only lived 55 years so there's still time I suppose...r

That's nothing to do with choking. And it's a very minimal percentage of all the babies born. In fact I think the numbers of babies dying from SIDS is at an all time low. Greatly helped by Anne diamond s campaign in the 90s ( her son died when my eldest was 2 months so obviously remember it well)

fair enough

That's why it's often pointless to have a discussion with some people 😂

Well maybe you could discuss what SIDS has to do with babies choking or sleeping alone in a hotel room

Can you explain better perhaps @theneighbourstolemyteacup

The poster referenced choking not SIDS?