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what a load of bigotted toss How is bile like this even printed? My dd is 4 and has not even noticed. Just vile. But am amazed to learn she has a 4 month old. Am v of her flat tummy!

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Do those children have nightmares about the children they see on "Something Special" because they're "different" - I think not!

Hang on, the messages they quote sound veeeery familiar .

There was a link from another thread to a discussion forum (can't remember which) and one poster said he thought his children might be scared (note: didn't say they were scared). He was shouted down by numerous other posters, and the others who didn't like Ceri were objecting to her presenting style, not her disability.

Sounds to me like the writer has padded this all out into an article. How pointless.

(People are pathetic though, there was a lot of ranting going on about "positive" discrimination. Bollocks.)

I hadn't even noticed until I saw a thread here on MN mentioning it.

Mind you DS1 (8) did suddenly announce a week or so back "oh YEAH! She really does only have one arm"............think he must have heard it mentioned at school and it was said in more of the "oh cool" (in true 8yr old boy style) than "oh that's weird" iykwim.

Yes shona, they have lifted it entirely from the digitalspy forum. God, this journalist lark must be bloody easy money if you work for the mail

What utter bollocks ds1 (3) hasn't noticed, dd (5) did and asked about it. It gave me the perfect opportunity to introduce the everybody is different talk with different abilities etc. She listened, accepted and watches. It is absolutely fine!

Ledogy - lucky you - DS2 (5) I still don't think has noticed (or if he has hadn't said antying) I had to deal with an over active imagination of an 8yr old boy who thought it was "cool" that she really did only have one hand . (we'd had the "why has that person got no legs" discussion a year or so ago in Morrisons so it wasn't so much the "why" I had to explain to him it was the "this isn't really "cool"") <<<<<<<<<<<<sighs at 8yr old boys and realises it's only going to get worse as he gets older>>>>>>>>>>>

I'm a tad confused. Why is the Mail getting it in the neck for printing this article?

I am at that article.

My 4 year old hasn't even commented on Cerrie. I don't know if he's just not noticed or if it's something that is perfectly normal to him and not worth mentioning.

My DDs haven't even noticed. And if they have, they clearly don't give a monkey's.

That article's a bit shit-stirring, isn't it.

I was going to say the same Desi, I am no mail sympathiser but the mail is not agreeing with these compliments.

But why run the story?

Why give the impression that there's an issue, where it's just a few dim twats on a messageboard?

Because there's really no story if it's all come from the Digital Spy thread (which going by the quotes it is).

The journalist has whipped up a non-story in order to have something to disagree with.

Why is it shit-stirring?

I would have thought that even if one person was pathetic enough to complain about a disability on a talk-board, it would be enough to print the story.

This hatred of the Daily Mail is much like a latter day witch trial. Very little intelligence is brought to the table.

I agree that the article is worth printing. My utter bollocks comment was about te parents who'd complained.

Not much of a story is it though.

STOP PRESS: One person said something stupid and obnoxious on a forum. Lots of other people came on and said you're an arse.

lol, i hadn't noticed her arm at all, and me and dd sat and watched them the other night. i was more concerned with the fact that she sings the goodnight song kinda flat.

tbh I am suprised that anyone is suprised.
thsi is what people in the sn world put up with every day.

We have a blind friend and DS is best friends with her son. DS has never worried or has been scared of this fact. Daily Mail only read it if someone points out a lie in it. Will never be my newspaper of choice.

I was actually shocked and upset by the reaction to Cerrie by my 6 year old daughter when she first saw her. My daughter is a lovely and caring child so when she started to imitate Cerrie (and not in a nice way) I was really concerned and questioned my parenting skills.

I am thankful that it has given me the opportunity to explain to her about disability and also illness (obviously has also seen pictures of Jade Goody). One of my daughters best friends at school is blind in one eye and she has never even mentioned it to me so I was surprised and hurt by her initial reaction to Cerrie.

there was a phone in about this on lbc radio this morning, every mum that phoned it said it was a positive to have people with dsabilities, and that their children had not noticed or were not really bothered by it.

The only thing to scare dd3 on cbeebies are the baddies on numberjacks.

or baby tumble! bbbrrrrrr.

I don't think the Mail should get it in the neck - they aren't in favour of the "campaign".

How mean and nasty

It took my 6 yr old ds weeks to notice her arm. We just explained that she was born that way. He wasn't scared at all.

I think Cerrie is a very positive role model for children.