Madeleine McCann info shown before Shrek, anyone else cross about this?

[WideWebWitch]

I was. I have chosen NOT to tell my nearly 4yo about this. I haven't discussed it in detail with 9yo ds either I CHOOSE not to put the news on in our house. I really resent this being shoved at my children before a U cert movie. Completely inappropriate imo.

[Tamum]

I haven't seen it but yes, I would be really cross too if my children didn't already know. Apart from anything else, is there seriously a parent (or indeed an adult) in the land who doesn't already know? I know they are trying to keep the story in the public eye but this just seems completely unnecessary.

[LadyVictoriaOfCake]

yes our kids are precious, everyones child is.


but i dont want my children knowing about this.

[WideWebWitch]

Er, no, I will not shut up. Gosh, but that's such a good argument, can't think why it doesn't just stop me in my tracks with its brilliance.

[Enid]

experienced? what, you snatch kids?

[MrRuffalo]

yes

sit in your comfy cinema chair and imagine your 4 year old on that screen

then put the popcorn back in pfb's lap and thank whatever deity...

[lulumama]

can be totally empathetic without making sure our children now the potential, but extremely rare , horrors that can befall them

my DCs do not need to know this

[SenoraPostrophe]

MrR, everyone on here has empathy with the McGann family.

But I'd have been annoyed about this too. The same result could have been acheived with a poster, and anyway I'd have thought that parents were more liekly to be aware of the case, and to have the image of that poor girl's face burned onto their minds already.

I don't see why my objection to dd possibly having nightmares for a week as "lack of empathy"

[SoupDragon]

Oh yes, because all those parents watching Shrek have no idea about Madeleine and need an advert to tell them about it. Utterly f-ing appalling and pointless.

[Enid]

yes I think we all do that on a daily basis actually

some of us have brains, we dont need emotions 12 feet high to feel empathy for the mccanns

sorry that you clearly do

[WideWebWitch]

I'm not talking about a pfb actually but even if I were, I don't see how that's relevant.

So your argument is: it's terrible, so let's make sure we tell our children about it?

[lulumama]

you don;t think every parent alive hasn;t thought, there but for the grace of god?

[tissy]

not shown before Shrek at the Odeon Kilmarnock last weekend, but if it had been, I would have been furious.

[SoupDragon]

I was going to try to offload BabyDragon onto a friend and take DSs to see Shrek this week. I'm having second thoughts.

[MrRuffalo]

someone thinks there is a point to it

their need is greater than mine or my kids

do we all object to lost folk on milk cartons?

some folk have very cotton-wool lives

[edam]

MrR, shall we show the carnage of the latest car bombings in Iraq before every PG and U film as well? Because that's what your argument seems to be. Awful, terrible things happen in the world but no purpose at all is served by frightening small children.

[cba]

I saw this ad last night, but was at pg cert, oceans 13, so very doubtful that young children would be there. But agree not before any u or pg film really. Will check with my cinema before going to see Shrek

[LadyVictoriaOfCake]

soupdragon same here. will have to find seomthing else for saturday morning.

[Nbg]

My nearly 4 year old has just started with an anxiety about eating and being sick.

That for me is hard enough.
I certainly do not need to object her to visions and thoughts of being "snatched" and taken away from me or my dh.

How bizzare that people are happy for their children to know all about it.

[edam]

We don't have missing children on milk cartons in the UK.

[foxinsocks]

hmmm, I don't think they should show it before U rated films. Definitely not (and mine do know about Madeleine).

My children are quite news savvy but I chose not to let them see the pictures of that burning car driving into Glasgow airport (stuff of nightmares that).

As parents of young children (exactly the age group you'd expect at a U film), we still have the right to censor 'news' items that we feel are inappropriate. I'm not particularly bothered about the Madeleine thing (wrt my children) but I think it is wrong to make the assumption that EVERY parent has deemed it an acceptable story for their young children/todders.

[maisym]

mrsR - do you stick your kids infront of the news everyday??

passive info can be hard for kids to grasp - better for parents to explain in their own way to their own kids.

[Skribble]

Don't see how it helps find the child, and yes I know my child is safe and and with me but I don't want her up crying all night because she is worried about this. Fair enough if it could actually help but I really don't see how it can help to show this to families in british cinemas.