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

sort of

No wonder you're only partly qualified, pqp...

Anyway, I've read more books than you and I have 43 children, so ner

but i give mine fruit shoots and coke beat that

sorry my grammar is awful!

Of course I don't give my 26 children coke-I was merely casting aspertions on you bunch of unfeeling bastards.
Nothing but a purely macrobiotic,organic,chef prepared food for my precious fruits of my loins.
They could all read flashcards at 8 months,speak fluent Mandarin aged 2,play grade 8 oboe by aged 3 and I therefore are a far more superior being than all of you.

sufferin fuck....You're cranky! Go to bed right now.

Oh, I pulled Tarquin out of the Mandarin lessons - it is so yesterday.

We are studying Finnish dialects, in betweenn preparing him for his solo debut with the Berlin Phil.

If fullyqualifiedpaediatrician1 could join us this evening we'd have the set [hopeful]

... you called?

Bloody hell, does one of you have all 3 of those ???

No - I think we are mostly different.

Well, I know I am.

[pats self and checks around for hidden mirrors]

[suddenly realises thread topic]

AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!

[clutches left nork and disappears in a puff of smoke]

Haikus. Haikus are where it's at apparently. I thought I was onto something when I found out about Mandarin. But it's so last year now. Enid said. Haikus and making foccaccia in the Tuscan Hills. If you were fully qualified, you would know that.

Beety?

you people really have an odd sense of humor.
I feel pretty much like most of you, but going on and on about it is really tasteless and insensitive.

I am sorry if i am reserecting this thread, but have to say that if you are indeed a fully qualified paediatrician, bigmamie, you wouldnt be feeding your child coke!

bugga!

I have to agree with bigmamie. As a parent of four I get on the internet everyday hoping to discover that they have found Madeleine. And everyday I feel a keen since of sadness , when there is no good news. So you can imagine my shock when I discovered a news article about parents complaining about a commericial before a shrek showing.
Maybe it because I am from the states that I see this differently but, I would have used the opportunity to explain to my children about how sad it is that children are kidnapped and what my child should do if approached by a stranger or if someone tries to "snatch" them. Here in the states there is a big movement to educate your children on how to handle these situations. Children are "exposed" to this reality in preschool. Children are also taught about good touches and bad touches at a young age. We believe that educating our children could be life saving.
I agree that I do not want my child exposed to any unnecessary trauma but I realize that bad things happen and that we can't hide that from our children. So instead of being outraged or making a silly fuss have a conversation with your child.
I think that the people who got upset are really drama queens who like to blow minnows into whales. It is just to bad that they had to feed the ego at the expense of exposure for little Madeleine.
I hope your child never goes missing but if it were to happen, I am sure you would take the exposure of them missing where you could.

Blah blah blah.

Are you serious? I mean is this like a teenager prank? Patty, where I come from "grown ups" do not reply to a serious conversation with blah blah blah. However, my 11 year old has been known to get a smart mouth and talk in that manner. Seriously, if you can't contribute something useful to the conversation, why do you bother.
Maybe, being in a conversation where people have legitmate arguements over a discussion is to much for you.

Hilarious!

My response was because this has been done over and over again and you are (whether deliberately or otherwise) simply going over old ground. I don't know whether your post was to try to reignite yesterday's "debate" but I suspect it was.

Just because people object to the screening of an "advert" concerning the snatching of a 4 year old at the beginning of a child's film does not make them uncaring. It makes them parents who are concerned for their own children's welfare. Just put yourself in the position of a 5 year old going to the cinema for the first time. It's loud and the screen is huge and on comes a story about a child of roughly her age being taken from her bed and taken away from her mother. Why is that acceptable? What purpose does that serve? Absolutely none. We all know what Madeleine looks like, we all know what's being going on. Why is it therefore necessary to subject young children (without their parents' consent) to this advert and to terrify them?

There's your legitiamte argument. Now I suggest you go off and read the hundreds of other posts that have gone over this debate a thousand times and then see if in fact you have anything new or useful to add.

Once again maybe it the difference between our cultures but our children cannot live in protective bubbles as much as we would like them too. I am not rehashing anything, I just signed up a few minutes ago after reading about this issue in the news.
If you read my post you would know that I just think parents could have responded differently. I genuinly believe if this had incident had happened in the states that nobody would be talking about it. Of course when we have a child missing we have alerts on the freeways, cell phones, news, and just about everyelse.
Once again had you read my post you would realize that I felt this was a perfect opportunity to educate your child. Nobody, likes to face the fact that there are child predators our there but we can help protect our children by educating them to the dangers out there and what to do if they are approached by a stranger.

"Once again had you read my post you would realize that I felt this was a perfect opportunity to educate your child. Nobody, likes to face the fact that there are child predators our there but we can help protect our children by educating them to the dangers out there and what to do if they are approached by a stranger."

Quite. But the main point on this thread, and I made ages ago, is that it is up to us to decided when/how to educate them, not have a crucial bit of parenting to be determined by a cinema management team, yes??

We are all keen to have M. found safe, but as someone indicated, having our children made scared, for nooo reason, is NOT going to have M. back any quicker.