@TheLightSideOfTheMoon I am amazed the nursery didn't have a chat with you about that. That would have been kinder than just mystifying dirty looks! My dds nursery would have done something like sent out a "snack guidance" newsletter to ALL parents under the guise of a "healthy eating policy" type deal.
I was fortunate that I was the eldest of 3 with a ton of cousins and been babysitting since I was 14 then I'd later been a nanny before I had dd, but not everyone has that experience of babies/little kids and/or has people around them that teach them this stuff. I even had childcare classes at school! Even in home ec classes we covered child nutrition and weaning. So much has been lost from the curriculum that's essential.
@moynomore I agree re secondary kids, but I've also been shocked at some leaving very young kids at home alone! I've seen threads where dc as young as 3 have been left alone! "Oh but I was only gone 10 mins" aye right! For one thing 10 mins is plenty of time for something awful to happen to a young child, for another people like this ime tend to massively underestimate how long they were away for - or they're plain lying! As by this point in the thread it's usually gone in the reasonable direction of "wtf were you thinking?!"
Generally speaking I find a lot of mn posters are utterly clueless when it comes to poverty and being on benefits in the Uk, not necessarily always in a benefit bashing way either but also sometimes in terms of thinking there's no help available for people or that you only get help if you're street homeless etc lots and lots of misconceptions especially around mental illness and claiming benefits/getting support.
I've never been invited to nor attended a child free wedding I would find that quite odd, I was raised that weddings were a family occasion and that included the kids. At my own wedding there was a load of kids they were the best guests there!! The kids were full of joy, the older ones kept the little ones busy and fetched bits and pieces for elderly guests, the other guests thoroughly enjoyed them even my new husbands brother who is not a "kid person" generally ended up playing hopscotch with a bunch at one point! Biggest smile I've ever seen on his face!
Never been to one with a free bar either! Size of my family the hosts would end up bankrupt!!
I haven't got the faintest idea what threadcount any of it is.
Me neither! I even darn my favourite ones if the pattern has been discontinued! 
A lot of these I'm best not commenting on or really thinking about because I have actual ocd so I know my thinking on certain things is massively disordered. I do sometimes find myself thinking certain posts indicate that person possibly has ocd that is undiagnosed.
I don't answer my door unless I'm expecting someone these days for a number of reasons - disability, the ocd, and I don't live in the...most pleasant of areas. I've had some trouble with dodgy callers and my new neighbour upstairs is an arse who gets too pissed to use his keys and then buzzes EVERYONE at 2/3/4am! I now turn my intercom off weekend nights because of him. Dick!
As an aside I'd love to know how long I've been on mn as I've lost track! Any way of checking this?
I think the thing that is strangest to me is posters my age and older (roughly) who seem to ONLY associate with people who share their very narrow beliefs and opinions and socio-economic status! I'm giving younger folk a wee bit of a pass here as you generally meet and get to know more people as you age/live life but at the age of almost 50 as I am I would expect people to have a variety of friends and acquaintances with different beliefs, opinions, backgrounds, Socio-economic status etc. Do people really limit their circles like this? I can believe/understand it happening in the past when folk didn't move around much and there wasn't as much migration generally but now?
Indeed again back to my wedding it was the ONE time everyone I loved was in the same place. I'm from a military family so it meant my relatives were chatting/dancing with people from all over Uk and beyond, we had at least 4 religions represented, some guests spoke very little English yet everyone seemed to muddle along and enjoy themselves.