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?

yawnee yawn yawn

oh FGS .. take it elsewhere

I think its been made perfectly clear that most of us are fed up with your one topic of conversation

thumps head repeatedly on keyboard

No, I don't want them to know at all. that's why I haven't told them.considers finding the pledge thread and grasping the nork

elsewhere

twiglet
I notice you still CANT answer the question!

And i will use damn explanantion marks as much as i like - there are no laws about that yet are there?
Getting aggressive again - cant help myself when i constantly get abuse from such moaners

But Sue you told me you had told them in a simplified manner

actually i find in some areas alot of parents dont have any common sense at all! That is the concern.

has moment of self-doubt

No, I don't think I have.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE xplanation marks - theyre Grreat!!!!

haychee

I admire your tenacity

but you are not going to get the answers you want

why not take a break?

Right I have stayed out of this so far but feel I should clarify something.

I do not want my kids worrying about being left alone in any house on holiday or otherwise and can categorically say that this will never happen to them.

That particular situation occurred because that child was left alone in my opinion to which I am entitled.

That is the reason why I do not want my kids having to know about that particular girls sad situation. If I told them I would have to explain why it happened and there is no reason for them to know that there are parents out there that would leave their children home alone.

Everyone is talking about being realistic about stranger danger and ignoring the fact that under normal circumstances a 3 year old would not be encountering strangers who let themselves in through an open door.

they're called explanation marks by the way

hatrick
i am directing this at school age children. We cant be certain that a school age child will not overhear or be told directly something in the playground that we would rather they did not know.
Pre-school age i agree, its pointless to tell them.
((trying very hard not to use explanation mark - its like an addiction you know))

do you put them after sentences that need explaining because they don't make sense?

snurk

they're called exclamation marks, actually, twig

you're exclaiming, not explaining when you use them!

no they're not, they're called exclaimation marks...

Haychee, as I mentioned, we have no playground to worry about.

argh, I spelt it wrong..

damn