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.

[reluctantly rejoins to say - angeliz sorry it wasnt aimed at you!]

oh and fuck off hansmoleman

But is isn't helping selma. read the rest of the thread. showing the ad before shrek reaches the parents (who are already painfully aware) and the children (who may be aware, may not be aware, but are not going to find her as they are children!)

ill tell my kids how and when i want to tell them thank you. and my children will never be at your house for their bedtime story thank the lord!

thankyou madame

too kind you do yourself proud

hit a nerve enid?

How does the ad help find her? Anyone who has seen it please let me know what it says. I'm assuming a recap of the main story and then some details of the campaign and where to download posters and make a donation.

Glad to hear it Enid

Sorry Selma do I know you ??

I thought not, I will not justify myself to you. As a fellow Catholic, I pray daily for the MacCanns, my 6 yr old does not need to worry about it.

oh i see - very odd - yes you do know me

I'm baffled by this insistence that my children WILL find out about MMC from somewhere.

No, they won't. damn right I keep them in a protective bubble. There's time enough for anxieties when they're older ta very much.

well use your regular name then

coward

You know what, I'm off to watch CSI.

oh enid -its simpsons day
go back to your smug tone....please

I keep imagining Haychee, sitting down with her kids at bedtime with a stack of newspapers, saying 'right this is the little girl who was snatched from her bed, and this little girl was raped and murdered by her uncle and she was only two! And look, some suicide bombers on fire! They were trying to kill people going on holiday. Sometimes they blow up aeroplanes while you are still on them.'
Because anything else wouldn't be truthful, it would be wrapping them up in cotton wool.
Does anyone remember a lot of gruesome news stories from their childhood? I think little children don't really pay a lot of attention to this sort of stuff unless it is rammed down their throats by adults.

Maybe she does it alphabetically. "Here's D. Darfur. Pictures of Princess Diana dead in the car. Dangerous dogs.

lol NKF

A is for Abduction - that could happen to you in your bed tonight, that could! Remember to scream!
B is for Burglar - one could creep in through your window. Remember to scream!
C is for cosh - sometimes burglars have coshes and they use them to hit people when they creep in your bedroom at night. Remember to scream!

And tomorrow we'll have Hansel and Gretel. Remember, much worse things happen in real life.

pmsl @ 'Don't forget to scream!'

Bubble merchants!
Your all just ridiculous! None of you have agreed that its better to hear something like this from a parent rather than on the tv or in the playground. Its just laughable that you think your kids wont find out! Good luck when they do! No wonder your scared to approach it by yourself!
I told my kids when it first happened and im gald i did - i have no regrets not one! My kids are happy and content and do not worry about anything they are very confident children. I DO NOT ram it down their throats that they are going to be killed or raped or abused in anyway as you are implying!

haychee, you are giving me some great laughs today.

"Your all just ridiculous! None of you have agreed that its better to hear something like this from a parent rather than on the tv or in the playground. Its just laughable that you think your kids wont find out! Good luck when they do!"

How about - it's better to hear it from a parent than from the cinema?

BECAUSE THAT IS THE ENTIRE BLOODY POINT, YOU IDIOT!

Bubble merchant? I rather like that...

Sorry, haychee, but it is perfectly possible to shield your children from whatever you deem fit. Mine don't watch the news, or read newspapers, so unless the hour of cbeebies they watch is going to have intermittent ads for MMC, it's just not going to happen.

I'm not going to tell my children about something scary that has nothing to do with them just on the remote chance they might hear a snippet of it from somewhere else.

Bubble merchant? I rather like that...

Sorry, haychee, but it is perfectly possible to shield your children from whatever you deem fit. Mine don't watch the news, or read newspapers, so unless the hour of cbeebies they watch is going to have intermittent ads for MMC, it's just not going to happen.

I'm not going to tell my children about something scary that has nothing to do with them just on the remote chance they might hear a snippet of it from somewhere else.

Haychee - there's a wide spectrum of parental behaviour between "ramming the news down children's throats" and "wrapping them in cotton wool." Some people take a different approach to news management than you. They make a judgement that is dependent on their children's personalities, ages and the environment they live in. Some 10 year olds know lots about the scary side of the world, have lived it. Others still believe in Father Christmas. My understanding of the Shrek/advert debate is that people felt they were forced to have the discussion at a time and a place not of their choosing.

whoops, double post. And a small fib - it's closer to two hours of cbeebies...