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

Welcome back temporarily Misdee - shame we had to meet on this warzone of a thread!

Read about dd2's good results on SN board (was too afraid to post there as I feel I ought not to be there) but well done!! She is a star, and you deserve some good news!!

not wrong as such but disturbing that someone would get so upset over someone they didn't even know. worrying that someone is so emotional that they are unable to keep it together in front of their children in the case of someone they didn't know. Have you suffered any personal tradgedy? because if not I fear for your emotional wellbeing should that ever be the case.

Misdee are you hiding behind the cake names?

What Suebaroo said

wannabe - I wanted to point out the similarities between the Princess Di 'outpouring of grief' (as the media called it), and this. But I'm glad you did it first .

WannaBe, you are right.

NO they didnt have to ask me what was wrong i want bawling uncontrollably. But yes i was visibly upset and i told them why and they can now understand why i would be upset. What is wrong with that? Should parents never show distress? or cry in front of them? that would be very difficult for me! If my daughter cries over charlottes web, what do i say that is not allowed - sort yourself out girl!

I am extremely proud that my children (2&5) see life as pretty idyllic and happy and people as good. I am patting myself on the back as I type, because I am also an acrobat.
It is exactly the sort of childhood I wanted to give them.
I loathe emotional incontinence.

No of course parents shouldn't hide distress - but I am a bit about bawling uncontrollably over a child I'd never met.

In my world, parents comfort children, not the other way round

Your daughter is a child - you are a grown woman (or are you?)

I think it would be seen as a bit to be visibly upset (and no that does not have to mean bawling) over something you have no direct involvement in.

We were all upset and sympathetic to MMC's plight, but we can do this without showing our dc (who we are supposed to be strong for)

I was not bawling uncontrollably i repeat i was not bawling uncontrollably

I said that, didn't I??

You were bawling over your little children?

That is VERY BAD. So sad for your poor dc's.

Do you bawl uncontrollably for the starving children in Darfur?

Or the hundreds of other children taken from their parents every year?

You repeatedly bawled over your little children

I did not look to my children for comfort that idea is ridiculous. I just explained why i found it upsetting and now they understand. Still cant see the problem with showing kids its ok to be upset sometimes.

lol @ AbRoller

You look to your poor little children for comfort

That is SO SAD.

DAISY MOO wrote
No of course parents shouldn't hide distress - but I am a bit about bawling uncontrollably over a child I'd never met.

Of course it is okay to show children you are upset sometimes. But at appropriate times, such as a poorly or dead pet, having to move house, hurting yourself. Not for a child you and your dc don't know. Because it should not affect them directly.

There should be a balance and a modicum of common sense.

I DID NOT look to my children for comfort that idea is ridiculous. I just explained why i found it upsetting and now they understand. Still cant see the problem with showing kids its ok to be upset sometimes.

I'm a bit too - Why can't you control yourself?

shellandjessica (sorry if I got your name wrong) you speak perfect sense.

Why would you think it's ok to be upset in front of them all the time. This is VERY SAD.