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?

I said to mine (6 & 4yrs), there is a very bad thing that has happened a little girl is lost and no one has found her. Her mummy and daddy are very upset. The little girl is called madeleine she looks just like you. The police are looking for her all over the world. Everyone is hoping and praying that she will be found soon.

Im not that emotionally attached, i simply have concerns for those childrn who are not told a huge story like this by a tender parent and rather a bolshy kid in the playground, or even a teacher in a classroom ar school assembly who cannot console each child at his/her own emotional level

i do not have any pressing parenting issues that need any discussion thankyou my kids are balanced, healthy, thriving at school, eat and sleep very well. The only poblem i do have with mine are their teenage attitudes they seem to have developed since starting school and their belief that that they are invincible. I caught my 6yr old crossing the road the other day right in front of a car (slow car admittedly) and thought it was ok to run accross rather than wait until after it had passed.
My kids have never suffered with nightmares even though i do tell them about the darker side of life. My kids are not worrying that every stranger they pass is going to eat them up or take them away.

fair comment hatrick i will leave it alone.
But my mind is not changed. I will continue to back madeleines campaign as i would if it were my own child that had gone missing.
I hope to god the person that finds her was someone who was reminded of her image having watched the shrek ad before setting off on their summer hols. That would shut you all up. Tough luck for those kids upset by the ad - at least they would have found the poor child who is in the bad place in the first place.

whatever.. im past caring now about what any of you hyperly over protctive parents have to say. Ive tried my darndest to be honest about my opinion and have been shocked at your responses. If my ways are so wrong how do you explain that my kids are so settled? It just doesnt make any sense. And if im so uncaring why would i bother to worry for those kids who are told in the absense of a parent? Of course i care, i shed a tear for madeleine i openly admitted that here today and was told i should learn to control my emotions and not use my kids as emotional crutches.
It was also implied that i sit down with my kids and show them pictures of people on fire at bedtime - how very mature the users of this site truly are.

How do we also explain the huge response from people with the same opinion as me that has expressed their disgust at the withdrawl of the ad from the cinemas? You see its not just me there are loads of us who feel the same. therefore your kids will find out, desoite your efforts, mabe not from my kids but from someone elses who may not be quite as sensitive as you.

no haychee .. you need to take a deep breath and actually re-read what you've posted on this site. You have been judgemental, condemnatory and dogmatic in your opinions.

The majority of posters on this site believe you are mistaken BUT have given you the time of day.

They even welcomed you openly when you switched tack.

The opinions you post make you appear, to the reader, as someone who is overly-emotionally tied into a news story, someone who has been drawn in by the excellent marketing campaign which has at heart a tragic and extremely rare occurrence. It makes it seem as though you are actually incapable of understanding what so many people are trying to express.

It is good you believe your children are happy and settled. It is a shame you feel they are turning into teenagers, my 6 year old is still very much a little boy.

I hope you manage to drum into your son how dangerous running into a road is .. it is far more likely he will be run over .. that is an extremely real and present danger.

Good luck in your life. I hope you learn to open up to debate and discussion

I'd be interested in which message boards you've been reading. I've read a number of the follow-on comments to some of the news coverage of the mumsnet shrek thread and to be honest have seen the majority being in favour of protecting children from the story being the right of the parent with about 25% posts being vehemently opposed to it.

Good luck to you all when the shit hits the fan, when the nightmares start and you cant understand why. When you overhear your own child talking about it because you didnt realise they already knew. I will still be sleeping soundly and so will my children because they have it all straight in their heads from the start. I will be able to visit many places in the world whereever i choose in the summer hols and not have be woried about any posters or ads i might see or my kids will see. I do not have to worry about the exaggerated stories in the playground because my kids already know. I do not have to hide my joy if and when they do find her (if safe and well) i wil be able to show my kids the tremendous happiness with no other concern. You all i suppose will be joyful in secret.

Oh grow up.

twiglet its all over sky news, aside from all the other nastiness today has produced in the world.

yes I've read sky news .. again majority of posters in favour

HAYCHEE!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have called upon my close personal friend, Numerologistizationaliser, to have a quick word with you.

Twelve people out of 17,645 does NOT constitute a "huge number"!

Pleas return to your home, and make time (between bouts of scaring your children) to learn some simple mathematics!

unless we're talking about the strange non-ending threads constantly discussing the case .. which are incredibly strange and psychologically suspect in the over-personalisation of what is a news story

you must have a different sky news to me. All it says is that there has been a big backlash against the withdrawl of the ad. It does not give statistical details

Is there really, honestly anyone in this country who hasn't heard of the case who is likely to be enlightened by a cinema ad? I just don't get it. Posters, yes - that reminds you of her face in the extremely unlikely event that she were to be spotted in the local high street. But a cinema ad? If you didn't know the face already you'd have certainly forgotten by the end of the film you went to see.

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You dont have to stick around you know! There is no one holding you at gunpoint to listen to my views. If you dont like the heat get out of the frying pan.
I will not let you all beat me down. I think your all wrapping your kids up in cotton wool and being overly protective. Kids are far more concerned with football, sweets, when is their birthday and whats for dinner than a 2 minute ad before a film.