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

How do you know not one parent complained? Are you a fuly qualified head teacher?

it is not worth, come and clasp your norks here

i agree DAISYMOO. The wording of the ad should be changed but NOT withdrawn entirley!

haychee but there is difference between not telling your children about "stranger danger" (god i hate that phrase) and Madeleine. Telling Madeleine about stranger danger wouldn't have prevented her from being snatched from her bed, she was likely asleep, so even if she'd been warned not to approach strangers it would have been futile.

Yes I believe children need to know about strangers. my ds does. He knows that he must always stay where he can see me, where he can see me as I am blind and unable to see him, therefore I do feel it is important that he knows, I can't keep him chained to me at all times because that would be unfair, he knows never to wander off with someone he doesn't know, he does know about Madeleine but he doesn't know she was taken from her bed, that part he doesn't need to know.

I'm also pretty sure that most parents will have approached the "stranger danger" thing with their children by the time they start school regardless of whether they have told them about MM.

totaleclipse - I don't think anyone is blaming the Mccanns for trying to do what ever they can - we just think that they made a mistake with the audience this ad was presented to - the decision probably had little to do with them.

A couple of months ago we had a terrible tradegy in our community where a father and his 2 children were killed in a house fire. It was decided that it would not be mentioned in Pre School unless the children themselves brought the subject up.

The primary school children were dealt with differently as the little boy was in FS2. DD is in FS1 and I was pleased she didn't have to confront this terrible tradegy.

She doesn't know about Madelaine either. She's 4, imo she doesn't need to.

Why do you have to be like this? DAISYMOO
"are you a fully qualifies teacher?"
NO, but its a small school and i know 99% of the parents well enough to have heard if there was uproar about it! Thankyou very much!

errr haycheee.........

superchoccycake on Thu 05-Jul-07 10:08:23
i dont want my kdis to know a little girl was snatched from her bed. they know a little girl is missing, but not that one fact. bedtime should be a safe place, not having them scared to go to sleep in case someone snatches them.

how about a picture of madeleine with a number to call, thats non-scary, and reaches those they want to know.

agreed, choccy.
Still think its futile to keep kids beleiving the wotrld is entirely a safe place though!

I'm a fully qualified teacher (not a paediatrician though, so my opinion may be worth nothing) and I think it was a very bad decision for your child's school to have made.

Just out of interest, do you think school children should have been made aware of the Dunblane tragedy?

I don't think anyone is saying that children should be made to think that the world is "entirely a safe place" - they just want to choose how to address that issue themselves.

haychee, will you listen - no one is saying we let our child believe the world is a safe place. you are deliberately misunderstanding us, (or you are as thick as two short planks) and I am sick of the back teeth of you.

oops, let go of nork - hippi reclasps and runs off

JACANNE
that depends on the "childrens" locality to the incident and the age of the children.
The point im trying repeatedly to make is that kids talk! Information of such stories may be overheard and misconstrued. I would rather my child had the facts from me initially before such information leaked out in the playground.

I agree we can't wrap them in cotton wool and we can't allow them to believe everyone is nice and friendly and won't hurt them but there are degrees of information. Also there is only so much info children can take in and retain.

For me with DD at 4 years old I am more concerned that she knows the principles of crossing a road for example as she is MORE likely to be run over than she is to be abducted.

Haychee - why do you keep shouting my name?

That's fine though Haychee, you can tell them the facts you want them to know and prepare them - that's what I do. I don't want someone else doing it for me.

My children, my choice.

HERE WE GO AGAIN!
Look back at all the threads! There are parents out there who are doing this! ONe said they wanted their children to grow up untterly carefree and will their upmost to ensure that this happened! This is what i am disagreeing with!
Please refrain from calling me thick as 2 short planks when you obviously havnt been paying full attention to what some parents have said!

Am off now to play games with my lovely children who I have neglecting this morning.

JCANNE - im not shouting your name im just making it obvious and stand pout that im directing that particular comment to you.
You cant seem to do anything right on here!

lordy lordy, 356 posts to go before this thread dies

HAYCHEE. I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek - my point being that you really can't know whether or not no parent has quietly complained or even been quietly unhappy about the assembly.

Everyone has different opinions. I myself did not come on here telling everyone what they should tell their children, I came on here personally to say, if it were my child missing I would do anything in my power to find her.

I do agree maybe i came on here all guns ablazing and i also agree with wannabee about her statement regarding the decision of the McCanns leaving their children unattened.

I myself and I am sure none of you would do leave your kids on there own. But the fact is that they did and Madeline is gone.

I understand some children are very sensitive and maybe would have been scared. Personally mine were not affected.

I certainly don't think all the bickering on here is going to help find her.

Thats all i have to say on the matter.

I'm still not a troll though I'm an Ogre.

Quietly unhappy is fine! Its the withdrawl of the ad from the cinema thats annoying me! What should happen is the wording changed as i think we are all now agreed?!

But the ad hasn't been withdrawn from cinemas haychee, just some cinemas have withdrawn it from U, PG and 12A films. going to feed my pigs now, they listen more (and are in total agreement with me of course )

U cert films - yes. PG and 12 certs - no! Parental guidance says what? that you as parents must guide your children when viewing!