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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just be really clear! “Adults only please” etc. Don’t beat around the bush.

I was once invited to a baby shower that was actually in a private room at a bar that did not allow children. I showed up with my kid and was denied entrance; because it was me alone, we just had to go home. I was pretty mortified. But also— it was a baby shower! Why not say something?! In that case, there was no message, tactful or otherwise, about leaving kids at home. I still think that was pretty weird. [/quote]

Since when do baby showers involve children as guests? [/quote]

In my circle, people always brought their kids to baby showers. Weddings, baby showers, etc included children. Maybe it’s regional?  [/quote]

Same. It’s unusual to have a no kids wedding and even more rare to have a no kid baby shower in my experience. [/quote]

I wonder if this is cultural rather than regional. We are not quite WASPs (we have some Irish and Jewish thrown in there) but more or less your generic white here-for-a-couple-generations  Americans, and I have never attended a family member's wedding where kids were invited or a baby shower of any sort where kids were invited. I remember going through my phone awhile ago and deleting all the babysitter contacts - there were 25 or so from various events from when my kids were little. We are now past the weddings phase but typically I think you can look at the invitation as a gauge. In the baby shower example - were you and your daughter invited? Or just you?  [/quote]

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