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

1007 replies

WideWebWitch · 01/07/2007 20:00

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.

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JoolsToo · 03/07/2007 22:26

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ThePedantifier · 03/07/2007 22:27

Someone beamed my special colon sign into the sky! I am needed! Where is the grammatical emergency?!

NKF · 03/07/2007 22:28

It was me. Hangs head in shame. I retyped, forgot to change, can only weep.

ThePedantifier · 03/07/2007 22:32

And let that be a lesson to you!

Spider · 03/07/2007 23:20

This thread was on BBC London 94.9 news this morning. Did anyone hear it?

Mrbatters · 04/07/2007 08:22

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ELF1981 · 04/07/2007 08:26

Post By haychee on Tue 03-Jul-07 21:45:21

That was the exact point of the debate - that we want to tell our children if we feel it is necessary, not them being told at the cinema before a childs film.

I have liked this debate.

I checked The Sun today to see if they had added my comment and they have taken the story off their pages. I'm obviously posted something so astounding they didn't want to hurt their readers brains with it

ellis65 · 04/07/2007 10:04

Tissy: I took kids to Odeon in Kilmarnock on Sat30th June and they definately showed it before Shrek movie,

sandcastles · 04/07/2007 10:06

To all those who said they tell their children & then say "it won't happen to you as mummy are daddy are in the house" think about this...

Here, not long ago a man crept in thru the back door of a house, at night. He proceeded to sexually abuse an 8 yr old. Her mum & a friend were in the lounge.

Should I tell my 3 yr old about this? No, just like I haven't told her about Madeleine, because I want her to have a child hood & not have to worry about a little girl who is missing.

Because I think my daughter would get upset about it & I'm not going to do that to my child.

DeJager · 04/07/2007 10:51

I want my kids to know that not everything in life is peachy hunky dory.
Of course we don't tell them the real horror, but we don't keep it from them the fact that there are bad people out there who hurt other people.

I also want my kids to know that little girl is missing, perhaps they will think twice about running off while we out shopping or running ahead when we in a crowded place and giving me instant heart failaur.

Also, if that was your child missing, would you not want to try every possible means/way to find her, and that would include the advert at the movies.
Or just for the sake of offending other people...not use the chance...If that was me. I would use the chance...sorry, you not important to me, my daughter is.

I called odeon and told them well done and thank you. I think they did good to help, when they did not have to do this in the first place.

Enid · 04/07/2007 10:52

"I also want my kids to know that little girl is missing, perhaps they will think twice about running off while we out shopping or running ahead when we in a crowded place and giving me instant heart failaur. "

how selfish

NKF · 04/07/2007 10:54

Dejager - you don't need an advert to teach your kids that lesson. And the snatched from bed message has no relevance to that situation.

Enid · 04/07/2007 10:55

[bangs head against brick wall]

sandcastles · 04/07/2007 11:26

[sandcastles joins Enid]

MamaMaiasaura · 04/07/2007 11:30

[awen joins sandcastles and enid]

bundle · 04/07/2007 11:33

this still going?

partlyqualifiedpaediatrician · 04/07/2007 11:33

joins in headbanging too!! ffs

LittleBoot · 04/07/2007 11:34

DeJager, it's not your children's responsibility to not run off from you, it's your responsibility to try and ensure they don't run off from you. (And you won't always manage it, no technique is entirely perfect.)

There are various techniques. One is to bash your child if they run away. Another is to yell abusively at them and / or threaten to bash them. Yet another is to scare them by telling them that if they wander off, nasty men will take them away like they did that poor little girl in Portugal.

None of the techniques I've mentioned are considered good, responsible ones by civilised intelligent people. So excuse me if I pass on using any of them.

MamaMaiasaura · 04/07/2007 11:44

PMSL!!!

JoolsToo · 04/07/2007 11:46

reins are always an option but seldom used today

maisemor · 04/07/2007 11:46

This thread has now made it to the Danish newspapers

MamaMaiasaura · 04/07/2007 11:52

Does that mean we will get scandanvien trolls?? Do they look different and does the troll spray work on them too?

SoupDragon · 04/07/2007 12:02

"sorry, you not important to me, my daughter is."

So is it acceptable for me to say she is not important to me but my children are?

Chin up head-banging ladies, not many more posts til 1000 and this thread is locked down

MamaMaiasaura · 04/07/2007 12:03

I dont mind this thread soupy

kookaburra · 04/07/2007 12:26

Maybe I've missd something - but is there evidence that she actauly was snatched from her bed rather than the more likely scnario of waking up scared and wandering out to look for her mum & dad and being intercepted on the main road?
I can see that the 'snatched from her bed' scenario is the one the McCann's are pushing but has this been established as the truth yet??????? Presumably unless she and the perp are found no-one can know?

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