Before I get accused of being racist I am British but do not live in UK. Am coming back next with my DDs and getting a little worried about the fact that DD2 (3yrs) may have dummy, or bottle, in public! Where I live it is perfectly acceptable to allow children their comfort in the form of dummies, cuddly toy etc. And bottles are used till 4 or 5 yrs for morning milk with cereal. And there are not millions of chilren with speech problems or problem teeth here either. I just get a real martyr feeling of making ones life as difficult as possible by denying your children some comfort other than provided by you alone as a parent.
So should I hide indoors in the UK or make DD2 miserable because it is not acceptable for her suck a dummy or drink her milk (only milk!) from a bottle? Because a mmnetter will see her and create a thread about some older child sat in a pushchair with offending items.