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

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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.

Haychee, you orginally said: 'Those parents who object do not have the intelligence to be able to discuss the topic with their children and do not know the correct language skills and way to go about reassuring their own children that they are infact safe in their beds.'

So in your opinion, anyone who dislikes the ad is stupid and can't talk properly... that's why I pulled you up on your grammatical/spelling errors.

Haychee - what do you do? Decide that once a story reaches a certain level of exposure you'll tell the children about it? I'm assuming you don't search out unreported acts of cruelty to tell them.

Okay, can I just say the following

Madeline McCann did not wander off from a stranger, she did not get into somebodies car by herself, nor was she led away with the lure of sweeties etc. She was taken from her bed, in the night, when there were no adults around to stop it happening. If she was told about stranger danger, would it have done her any good? No. She was taken from her bed while she was asleep, and even if she had tried to fight, there wasn't anybody there who could help her (thats to say she wasn't drugged etc).

I will tell my child when she is older about stranger danger but I do not want to tell her that children can be taken from their beds, their baths etc. I dont want her knowing what a sad world we live in. I will also do my best to shield her from reports about bombs, suicide bombers etc - I want her to have a chlidhood, not start a long road of anxiety at a young age.

If I did chose to tell my daughter about Madeline (shes not old enough, but imagine she is) then it would be MY choice. My choice, my language, my decision. Not an advert at the cinema.

Nobody is objecting to the advert. Just that it is shown at a U film.

I have posted much the same on the Sun website for all the gobshites who went off on one without even bothering to read this thread.

Does this smack of an organised campaign to tell Mners how selfish we are ? Anyone else or just me feeling

Since bedtime we have been over run with people who disagree with us.

Reckon there is another site somewhere rallying the troops.

OK

ALL YOUR KIDS ARE WIMPS AND WUSSES

END OF

lets draw a line under this argument

You know. Nobody really knows what happened in Portugal. Even telling a child that a stranger came and took her may not be the truth.

Ah Elf............the Sun that explains a lot.

LOL Bree;

Right, at 20.45 hours we will assemble posters from troll camps 14 - 24. Enter MN and go get 'em!!

20.50 - troll camps 25 - 30. Be ready, take no prisoners!!

Im being attacked!

All i want you to admit is that kids will hear about madeleine somewhere sometime. All those in favour of telling your child (at whatever level you feel appropriate) before they see or hear it from a third party please speak up!

All those in favour of keeping their child in a bubble and not teach / tell them about the dangers in the world, are crazy!

Bree - I dont read the sun often, but had a look as it was noted earlier on in the thread. Had to sign up to post because I was that mad with them!

It just seems so ironic to me that we are the ones supposedly wrapping our kids up in cotton wool by allowing them to be children and innocent.
By telling your kids every bad scenario that may ever happen to them to arm them into little soldiers against evil, isn't that a bit obsessive and over protective?

Is anyone seeing the irony yet?

haychee, there is a difference between teaching stranger danger, and explaining what happened in the McCann case

Oh for god's sake, loads of people who have posted on here have told their children but for the millionth time they want to choose how and why they tell them. My children saw a poster, so I explained, but they are older than most on here. I would not have wanted them to be told in that context.

Now I really have heard it all - my dc are wimps and wooses (sp?) because they may be upset about MMC.
I did not realise we were supposed to raise a generation of cold-hearted, hard as nails children.

Slaps forehead, doh! Got it wrong again!

NKF your post of 19:46:24 made me snort and laugh so much that I nearly choked on my own snot

Oh, we're Crazy? I think not.

def a train from nutter central missing some passengers.

[bangs head agasinst wall]]

Only halfway through but A Level English?

Sometimes could be a long time off though. And there are many things that they will hear about before i tell them. I can't control all the information that comes their way. I can be available to asnwer all questiosn and I can anticipate threats that might come their way and so prepare them. But I can't assume that they will always hear bad news from me first.

Lol at train from nutter central

Oh plase can someone draw a line? I almost 4'd it. Although this might actually motivate me to go do some work.

Haychee

All those in favour of keeping their child in a bubble and not teach / tell them about the dangers in the world, are crazy!

Unsure where you live, I live in the sticks. Lovely little community, children have IMO idyllic lives. Why would I sully that, before I have to ??

YOu want it shown everywhere haychee? Oh go on then, let's just whack it in every ad break on Nick Jnr - really get maximum impact.

Eejit.

What childhood memories would you like your dc to have haychee?

option 1 - mummy loved us very much. she made sure we knew about all the bad things in the world that could hurt us. the bad things never happened, but we were prepared, anxious and waiting just in case.

option 2 - mummy loved us very much. she shielded us from a lot of bad things in the world. she only told us about something bad if it could directly affect us. we had a lovely carefree childhood.

Option 2 for me all the way please!!

bree - to help a little girl or her family in ANY way???