Oooh ladies can I sit at your feet and learn from the masters? Some great ideas here! Look forward to other's solutions.

What I find hard is the implicit criticism of other people's parenting - if they try to do something with your child and you tell them not to, they sometimes take it as you saying that all parents who do that with their children are bad parents, know what I mean? I don't care what other people choose to do (within reason of course), but that doesn't mean I will let them do that with my child.

I also find it hard when people don't get subtle hints, and so force you to be more blunt than you feel polite being!