this might be controvesial but how come the people who have joined specifically to comment on how terrible MNers are in the Madeleine / Shrek thing ...

[Twiglett]

how come they can neither spell accurately nor use the rules of English Grammar?

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haychee, anybody who ever told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given worse advice. Now, I'd love to help you out so tell me, which way did you come in?

I'm off to pop on me frilly apron and whip up a nice batch of fairy cakes.....it's been special.

By hatrick on Thu 05-Jul-07 21:34:08
Just one last thing Haychee........

Have you told your children not to repeat the story to any other children?

In punctuation, I believe indents are a desired format when beginning a new paragraph.

In cake competitions, they are undesired and the sign of shoddy handling prior to the oven phase of the operation.

In conversation with Haychee, they are the marks in my forehead from repeatedly smaking off the keyboard.

Any questions?

By hatrick on Thu 05-Jul-07 21:34:08
Just one last thing Haychee........

Have you told your children not to repeat the story to any other children?

By hatrick on Thu 05-Jul-07 21:34:08
Just one last thing Haychee........

Have you told your children not to repeat the story to any other children?

By hatrick on Thu 05-Jul-07 21:34:08
Just one last thing Haychee........

Have you told your children not to repeat the story to any other children?

By hatrick on Thu 05-Jul-07 21:34:08
Just one last thing Haychee........

Have you told your children not to repeat the story to any other children?

I'm off to enter a cake competition too. Ladies, wish me luck.

hatrick
why should i have to say that to them? they dont mix with other kids who dont attend the same school, if they do rarely, i am there. As i feel so particularly strongly about madeleine i have talked to all of my friends and they dont keep it a secret from their kids so dont see an issue with not having told them.
Honestly this is again a very valid point. I have talked to so many mums about the awful MMC and not one has reported their anguish at trying to keep it a secret from their kids. Or that theyd rather i didnt talk about it to their child or in front of their child.

I have no anguish about keeping it a secret. It's not a topic of conversation in this house. Fer goodness sake.

my kids are more concerned with who can do a headstand for the longest or who has snatched a toy from them than to be concerned with upsetting other kids in that type of way

The article in The Times annoyed me so much that I had to come and see what went on on ths site. If this conversation is representative then I am totally, utterly speechless.

How dare any one of us judge the McCanns? Harriet Lane leaves her children alone in a kitchen with 'knives and bubbling pans' - I for one would NEVER, EVER do that. To me that is a greater risk than the one the McCanns took. I don't know them, but the McCanns strike me as good people who made a mistake and they are paying for it in the most agonising way possible. If I were them I would do everything in my power possible to find my daughter. And so would you. Surely? Upsetting a few sensibilities of smug 'it would never happen to me' parents, would not be on my list of priorities.

My position as a parent is that honesty is essential for trust. I feel that Harriet Lane and other parents who conceal Madeleine's disappearance from their children are living in cloud cuckoo land and are effectively being dishonest with their children. They may consider they are acting with the best motives, but how can they be? Their children will find out from others and then they leave their own children exposed and without the resources to cope with this sort of alarming information. How can you shield your children from reality? You can't. If they told their children honestly from the start about Madeleine then they would not now be dealing with this situation and avoiding the news and cinema. If your child is having nightmares now, it is not the fault of that advertisement.

I can't think I'll be coming back here, it's too scary. So farewell and please get real.

If you all are right and i am wrong, then how do you explain the fact that noone has asked me not to discuss MMC around thier children?

you're not coming back?

promise?

haychee - do you discuss MMC around their children?

YAY SUZY you say it far etter than me. its taken me 3 days to say that. Ive been slaughtered here all alone. Dont run and hide suzy stick around i need your help!

Yes sue i do, and so do they. Doesnt seem to be a major problem where i live.

haychee, you clearly haven't been slaughtered.

you're still alive and kicking

oh please don't leave

I beg of you, please

And, i dont know of any one of the children that are in any way suffering or affected by it before you start with the comments about disturbed children

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh freak out (c Cod)