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In the run-up to the arrival of the Royal baby, there is a funny article on the BBC website today, listing the ten most irritating types of advice for parents. I have been on the receiving end of some of this over the years, have you? What I found was the worst was the way that complete strangers just come up to you in the street and say things like "Should he be squashed in that baby carrier like that?" or "Somebody's cutting a tooth" or (worst of all) "MINE never used to make a fuss in the shops/dentist/church/bus" GRRRRR is all I can say! 
The most shocking thing I had was at my Dad's funeral when someone came up to me and said my Dad had died to make way for my baby. My oldest was born two weeks later.
My lot are so old now I can't remember any other comments!
Oh my goodness...keep these coming!
I've never been on the receiving end of these comments in 6 years so either a) I'm so clueless as to not notice (quite possible!) b) I am totally perfect :-) or c) people deduce i'm past help and give me a wide berth! (Most likely!)
Or perhaps I can't hear them over my little ones incessant talking and my eldest tantrums.
Gem
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I'd go for B 
yes, definitely B !
I remember one particular person saying to me, that when they have children they won't put them in front of the television, their children will play outdoors and only have wooden toys, not garish plastic ones. Ha ha ha ha!
She now has two boys with DVD's often on back to back and the same ridiculous amount of garish plastic toys that the rest of us have!!
HAHA that's great. The one I love is when a non-parent says "I am not going to move any of the ornaments in my house when MY baby starts walking, I am just going to say "no" in a quiet, kind voice" Yerr right.
I used to get "Is she yours?" from random strangers quite a lot when my daughter was a toddler.
How rude!
I use to have ''are all those yours''!!
They were so good though when they were small (notice the 'were') They used to impress me.
My mum used to tell me to say "No she is an African princess!!"
Good thinking, Anna's mum!
My worst was " are they all yours?"
And I said yes there all mine
" what all with the same dad? wtf mind your own buisness .... Goodness me
People are so NOSEY and also so self-righteous. I reckpn it is all about us knowing (and telling ourselves) that we are OH-----KAY.
Thanks for the story.
it really starts when you're pregnant. When I was having No2 son we went to a leaving do in a pub and I had a drink (just the one and I don't drink much anyway) and this girl came up to me, cigarette in hand and said it was disgusting that I was drinking and I was harming the baby. I just told her to go away with her cigarette because she was harming my baby and if she was that bothered she would have thought of that before.