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

perhaps there isa reason cbeebies doesnt show the news and cbbc newsround shows a tamed down version? why on earth shouldnt the 3 year old british childs plight of being kidnaped at gunpoint not be in parents mind. You have just jumped on the bandwagon IMO

But Haychee, as I understand it, seems to think that parents should have told their children by now. They've had 60 days after all.

what do you do then? snuggle up in bed with them and read them the newspapers in a loving voice?

edam, that point has been stressed to Haychee over and over and she is just not getting it. She's either just here for a laugh to piss people off or she is thicker than my dogs turd. I suggest the latter is most likely!

So are you saying that all parents should tell their children, no matter how young, about MM going missing?

Well, I am not telling my nearly four year old. Unless he becomes aware of it through other people. It's too frightening. And terrifying my boy would not help the McCann's in any way.

But why do we need reminding of what madeline looks like? We all know don't we?

SENSE OF HUMOUR!!!!
FFS! Is that what you where doing ? trying to be funny?! Good grief, you were totally out of order and sick in the head to have even contemplated using these ideas and scenarios of me sitting down with kids and showing them pictures at bedtime of people on fire. NOT FUNNY IN THE SLIGHTEST!

EDAM
So you are happy for your easily upset by the story son to hear it first from someone else?

And to be perfectly honest, my children are v. unlikely to hear about MM through hearing adults "talking about it freely" because the adults who I socialise with have enough sense NOT to talk about it freely in front of children!

Haychee, but some people do choose not to let their children know any of it, surely that is up to the parent.

Saying that, you mention that there are non-frightening ways to explain it all...would be interested in those...got an almost 3, 4 1/2 and 11 year old...the 11 year old I know how, but how do I explain about childsnatchers to my younger children. Actually nothing to do with teh Madelein Case, but there have been a few incidents in our area where on several occasions someone has tried to get some children into their cars, which obviously makes me a bit jumpy and I need to make my younger children understand that they have to stay with me at all times, etc...I don't want to ocmpletely freak them out, of course...

Oh Feck - just sprayed bagel over keyboard at that last one. I PMSL at that.

True DaisyMoo.. actually not one signle parent I have spoken to have bought it up. It is a terrible awful thing but it seems a but grotesque to pick over the details on the school run/chat with other mums.

Any child could be kidnapped at gunpoint, shouldn't you be warning your children of that? after all, Madeleine disappeared in another country, this child was kidnapped in another country, there is no less relevance here.

As for people going abroad, anyone who thinks that Madeleine is going to be spotted on someone's holiday is deluded IMO. Anyone who is clever enough to plan the abduction of a child during a time when they knew the parents wouldn't be there and wouldn't come back, is clever enough to know that taking Madeleine to one of the holiday hot-spots of the world would be a bad idea. Besides which if Madeleine was abducted it's highly doubtful that the abductor's intentions are to take her on a family holiday.

Haychee,

I don't buy into the amateur sleuth approach at all. The idea that a bunch of British parents holiday in the Costas is going to break the case strikes me as ludicrious. It's a fundraising campaign not a Crimewatch appeal.

I think many children are unaware of the story. You probably disagree. How knowledgeable children are of the world's disasters is highly individual. The ad campaign in the cinema assumed that all parents took a similar approach. It was a the wrong assumption.

Haychee,

I don't buy into the amateur sleuth approach at all. The idea that a bunch of British parents holiday in the Costas is going to break the case strikes me as ludicrious. It's a fundraising campaign not a Crimewatch appeal.

I think many children are unaware of the story. You probably disagree. How knowledgeable children are of the world's disasters is highly individual. The ad campaign in the cinema assumed that all parents took a similar approach. It was a the wrong assumption.

Wannabe I said that. But Haychee is jumping on the old hysteria band wagon. BEt she needed time off work and counselling when princess diana died too.

Alot of the 'trolls' on this thread have pointed out how much they have read and discussed the MM situation over the last 60 days. Says it all really.

What was it for though? Whatever the arguments for and against children seeing it, what was the point of the ad? I really don't understand what more could be acheived by the showing of this.

Fundraising I would have thought OI. And the desire to keep her name alive. Nobody in their right minds could possibly think that it might help find her.

ture quadrophneia. THey could have spent that time focusing on their own children instead.

I think most of use feel the same Orm. i really don't buy into this we need to be reminded of it bollox.

Haychee, no, I would be furious at any insensitive, daft adult who thought it was appropriate to tell my son about this. What's he going to do, go out and find her, for heaven's sake? No, he'd just be bloody terrified.

BUT if he saw something on the news, for instance, I would attempt to explain in a matter of fact way with lots of reassurance.

well if it's now a fundraising campaign then I think it should be stopped altogether.

The idea of giving money to people who have a £600000 house in leicester and a second home in Scotland makes me very tbh. it was described as a "good outlet for peoples' emotions" wtf.

I totally have no problem with raising Madeleine's profile, with asking people to be vidulant, to call the police if she is spotted, but I personally think that asking the public for money is disgusting.

now shoot me.

only 299 to go!