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............

Please guys give bigmamie a break she is only stating her opinion and we all have them. Please don't ridicule her. I have my opinion which is this...I would not want to take my children to the cinema whilst they are showing the madeleine film because I have only briefly explained to my children that madeleine is missing from her mummy and daddy and no-one knows where to find her. I have not told them she was snatched or abducted from her bed. I cannot tell them that otherwise they too may think that they are not safe in their beds.
I have supported the madeleine mccann story from day 1 and I realise that a four year old child is missing here and think of her everyday and hope she will be back with her parents and by not taking my children to the cinema because of it I am not trying to forget but want to protect my dc from the dangers of the world for as long as I can.

There is a difference between being snatched from bed, and snatched in the street. If the ad had said it was a appeal for MM who went missing on holiday in Portugal I would consider that acceptable. If it said she wandered out in the night and got snatched that would be whole different situation to BEING SNATCHED IN HER SLEEP, ffs!

take your kids to shrek 3 (though it's not very good), mumof2monsters -- thanks to MN the trailer has been withdrawn from screenings open to children.

All I can add is that as a child I had a frighteningly overactive imagination and would lose sleep over the smallest things. I cannot imagine how terrified I would have been knowing that children could be snatched from their beds whilst they slept.

I get that you want your children to be aware of dangers and scary people, but this seems to have been taken out of proportion. I wouldn't lie to a child that asked be about Madeleine McCann, but what value can it possibly have to tell a 4 year old that they might be snatched from their beds in the middle of the night?

They can't run away, they are ASLEEP FFS! The cannot be vigilant or stay close to you. This is something that they have no control over.

Of course the McCanns want their daughter back. I fail to see how advertising to a bunch of primary school children would help this happen.

Hello, I wasnt against my kids seeing the ad before the new Shrek film but after reading a few of the threads today thought i'd better check to what extent the ad is not suitable for a ds6.5 and dd2.8.
Is it going to be scary or disturbing for them?
I thought it was just a plea for help to find her but now am not so sure..

Thankyou.

laneydaye - 5yo DD didn't even notice it TBH. She was too busy messing with her popcorn and talking with daddy to pay any attention to the ads. Lasts about 2 minutes maximum. Does use the words snatched and still missing, which is what some people seemed concerned about as they could grab a child's attention and potentially scare them.

You are right, it is "a plea for help to find her"

Thanks hulababy

THE AD IS NO LONGER RUNNING IN SCREENINGS FOR CHILDREN
THEY HAVE PULLED IT FROM ALL U/PG FILMS

Just wonder what the next stunt will be

Just wonder what the next stunt will be

lucyellensmum
you're right. sorry.

My god - what the fuck has happened on here, I don; think I've ever seen it get so nasty and personal.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions and to raise their family the in the way they see best.

Who the hell is haychee and where does she come from? Are you serious - you think there is a paedophile on every street corner to take your lo away from you? GET A GRIP

i'm stil laughing that she said up yours, to me

I've somehow missed all of this. Serves me right for not checking out Talk for a week or so.

I agree that parents taking children to U rated films should not have to face ads which describe a child being snatched from their bed. If the ad was there to raise funds and raise awareness, it should have been toned down so as not to frighten a U film audience IMHO.

Can I add that I let my son first play out with friends in our quiet road when he was around four years old (he's now 13). Giving ds this freedom went hand in hand with telling him early on about the dangers of abduction and strangers as well as other stuff about safely etc. I made that choice because of the the way ds was (in my opinion). If I'd had a less active, more sensitive child or lived in a different, less friendly street, then I may have decided differently.

I can totally understand why many parents would not want to expose a young child in a cimena to the Madeline ad. It's a decision they are entitled to make as they are the best judge of their child's reactions to it.

The ad is still running for U films - I just saw it at a screening of Shrek the Third at my local cinema.

what cinema moo? odeon have stopped showing it apparently, no idea on others.

scc, it's a small independent cinema. Tbh, it seemed to go over my youngest's head (he's 5) and my 10 year old knows about it already (from school...) and we've talked about how sad it is (and how rare) and that we hope they find her.

But I agree with everyone on this thread who has said it is up to parents to choose how much (if any) of any kind of news they let their children know about. I don't let my 5 year old see the news and he wasn't aware of Madeleine McCann until today. Which, afaiac, is how it should be - I don't think he's very likely to be instrumental in finding her.

Tigermoth, which cinema?

Sorry, Moo, I meant.
And you've said.

For all you Yummy Mummys out there who are DISGUSTED at the Madeleine McCann ad shown as a prelude to Shrek 3, I have only one thing to say....

GET A BLOODY LIFE.

HOW SELFISH CAN YOU GET? Sitting there with your beautiful child in the nice cosy cinema with your "I'm all right Jack" attitude. Have some compassion.

You must be insane not to make your children aware (at whatever age) that they need to be careful in the big wide world. Better that your kids have some awareness than NONE. What on earth is wrong with telling the kids about 'snatching'? If they know it exists, they are better prepared.

Bet my bottom dollar ONE THING. If Madeleine was your child, wouldn't you do everything in your power to publicise her abduction?

GET A LIFE AND SUPPORT THE McCANNS rather than BELLYACHING!!!

PS. And before you accuse me of not knowing what I'm talking about... I have 2 kids of my own and we have discussed Maddy's disappearance at length.

Oh joy. Another one.