I am disgusted at the Madeleine McCann/Shrek debate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bigmamie]

I have joined this site solely to remind all you thoughtless, forgetful, selfish ba#@ards that Madeleine McCann is missing!!!!!!!! I cannot understand how anyone can sit with their arms around their own children, in the comfort of a cinema whilst feeding their children popcorn and Coke that there are lots of mothers in this world who cannot do this. Their children have been taken from them and I wonder if any of you had the money or the resources available to them, I wonder if you would have campaigned this long or this hard for their daughters return. I wish the McCanns every success and only wish I could physically find their daughter for them. I am taking my 6 kids to see Shrek tomorrow and I hope my cinema is still showing the Madeleine film. I hope the publicity generated stays in your faces for a long time to come. Tell me, if she passed in front of you down at the shops or at the park could any of you be bothered to actually tell someone. Or are you all just to happy in the knowledge that its not one of your children. There but for the grace of God............

Better than being terrified of every other adult in sight.

God forbid your child did get lost - how exactly are they going to seek help when they think every other adult is a child molester?

FFS

PMSL Fio, I bet everyone else was terrified of you
My kids use the tube a lot haychee. They know it is commonsense to stick by the adult they're with so as not to get lost. They also know how to use the ticket barriers, how to use an escalator, what bus routes go near our house, what to do if they get separated from us in a public place.

oh my good god, i cannot believe i am getting dragged into this one, believe me, im mad now - for one thing, i dont do tube trains, i live by the sea i do, and AND i use reins!!!! and meandmyflyingmachine on Wed 04-Jul-07 16:04:24
Actually, I think we live in a wonderful word, with some "violent, sad and murderous" events. And that is why I don't wish to play up the significance of one over the other.

I totally agree , but she made me mad so i said that, grrrrrr, someone hold my coat

god forbid your child got lost he/she will just go up to anyone and announce he/she is lost - ready for the taking! My child knows to find a policeman or someone in authority like that - most definitely not a stranger!

Is that actually what your children think? Or what you think they think?

Being lost is a big fear for children IME. Being unable to find their parents, no matter who else is around. Have your children never been worried when they can't see you, even if surrounded by other adults?

"ready for the taking"

I'm no longer angry - I just really truly pity you and your children.

"ready for the taking"

Really, how can you live like this?

will you still use reins when they are 5, or 6 or 7 or maybe you wont venture any further than your seaside town for fear of them finding out the world isnt as friedly as you would like them to think it is

I'm off. We're entering parallel universe territory here and I just cannot be bothered any more.

How old ARE your children, haychee? IME small children get very distressed at the thought of being apart from mummy or daddy (or other close friend/relation), even if they have no reason to expect anything other than kindness and consideration from adults. "Being lost" = "not a good thing", in child-psyche terms.

In fact, the age at which they cease to see being lost as a negative thing in its own right may be a good guideline stage to start talking about other dangers.

haychee

Your children would be lucky to find a policeman if they were to get lost

I would be horrified to think that your child would be fearful of approaching me or my DH, for example, because we are going to snatch them

generalisations are so counter-productive

of course they will be ready for the taking! They will simply announce that they are lost to whoever approaches first - lets hope its not a wierdo eh?

Haychee.

I am getting very concerned about your posts now. I hope you are just exaggerating for effect. I really do. How do you function when you see paedophiles and child snatchers round every corner?

i dont think this woman is being entirely serious. She is just looking at the posts thinking what she can write to cause the most consternation. She isnt very good though, ive seen straight through it. I think she should take a look at her own OP and have some respect

Ill ask you again LUCYELLENSMUM because you have failed to answer.
Will you still use reins when they are 6+, or will you never leave the seaside town?

Haychee - stop! You are starting to sound irrational.

Haychee - you too have been asked a question you've yet to answer - how old are your children.?

Also - I'd be interested to now what you would tell them on a packed out tube, stay close to mummy because.....?

Genuine question...

what are you talking about 6??? My DD is 17!!! Get the hint, im not taking you seriously, i dont think anyone is.

My girls are 6 and 4.
I would tell them before we set out that its a very busy place and there are lots of strangers. I would remind them that it is not safe to wander off because of the strangers, some who are very safe but some are not and we dont know which is which. I would make sure they knew what to do if they did find themseves seperated from the group. I certainly would nt make them wear reins, or not even go to the event for fear of them seeing an ad for madeleine.

dear god...

haychee...

they're coming to take you away, ha ha, he he, ho ho, to the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time. .

on a packed out tube stay close to mummy because THERE ARE NASTY MEN EVERYWHERE OUT TO SNATCH YOU/BLOW YOU UP (supply tabloid threats ad nauseam). Darling, why are you crying? Buck up will you child, you're never going to function in the real world if you can't cope with The Truth About Our Evil Paedophile Ridden Society.

(LEM - look at your earlier post, you accidentally copied and pasted a bit too much, hence the reins comment LOL)

So, you wouldn't specifically warn them about the trains being dangerous, or that they might fall on the escalators, or that they could get jostled in the crowd, or that the train lurches so they ought to be within grabbing distance of you, or that they could get caught in the doors, or that there are dogs on the train who may or may not be safe?

Haychee - are you one of those weird, rude women that glowers at me if I smile at their DC?

wannabe, thats cruel, funny but cruel My DD is going to be 2 next week, yeah, i have a 17 year old too. She still has an innate fear of strangers, she will get over it and will just be wary i guess. I use reins if i am on a busy road, otherwise i let her walk unhindered and if a car comes she must hold my hand, what i tell her is this - hold mummy's hand, cos the cars might squash you flat, she doesnt understand of course, shes 2!!!!!!