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Common in the UK to give your kids Calpol to put them to sleep?

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Mille · 14/09/2007 10:31

Hi all,
I am a new member here. I am from Norway and live in Oslo but has spent half my life in the UK (London)

I have had this long disucssion with some friends here in Norway who claims they have UK friends who regulary give their kids Calpol even when they are not sick. This in order to get their kids off to sleep at night.

I refuse to believe this is common practice and i never came across anyone who did this when I lived in the UK (ok, few years ago now but still..... )

The reason for this argument of course is the case of Maddie and the fact that her parents seemed to give her Calpol to sleep better but this is not, by any means a normal thing to do - or is it?

(In Norway I think you would be reported to the child protection unit if you give your kids drugs when they are not sick!)

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doggiesayswoof · 14/09/2007 13:28

MAISEMOR

Mille mentions Maddie in the OP!

maisemor · 14/09/2007 13:29

and!!!!

Hurlyburly · 14/09/2007 13:29

Well mille had a couple of supporters but she/he wanted us all to know how clever she/he had been, so let us know with these posts:

"mmmm me being agressieve? I am terribly insulted by all remarks that mixed race hair is problematic and not nice ... waiting for apology*"
"ha ha you are such a bunch of tossers, so easy to wind up"

We all got it then. Cod was onto her straight away.

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MaryBleedinPoppins · 14/09/2007 13:29

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maisemor · 14/09/2007 13:30

She aint a troll.

doggiesayswoof · 14/09/2007 13:32

Does that not make it a McCann thread then?

OrmIrian · 14/09/2007 13:32

Don't know if she's journotroll or not.

But she did start it >

  1. implication that all UK parents sedate their kids so they can go on the razz.
  2. implication that some posters are so uncomfortable with their mixed race that they want to iron their children hair.
  3. posted in a language impenetrable to most of us (which is the equivalent of whispering to someone in the middle of a conversation - ie very very rude)
  4. Then I beleive resorted to plain English rudeness by telling people to sod off or equuvalent oh yes and ...
  5. Mentioned Madeleine McCann.

And no drink has yet been taken .

fortunecookie · 14/09/2007 13:33

No, it's a Calpol thread.

maisemor · 14/09/2007 13:35

You will have to actually cry if I am to give you a drink OrmIrian

Hurlyburly · 14/09/2007 13:36

Is it time to have a separate topic for calpol, do you think, fortune?

Dinosaur · 14/09/2007 13:36

and a box to tick "no Calpol threads"?

OrmIrian · 14/09/2007 13:36

Oh OK. Not yet though maisemor as I'm at work. But I've got to take all 3 kids swimming later so there's still pleeenty of time....

maisemor · 14/09/2007 13:38

Maisemor puts her bottle away in her desk drawer and hopes her boss did not see it.

littlelapin · 14/09/2007 13:38

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maisemor · 14/09/2007 13:40

By the way I do apologise for the foreign language bit

Hurlyburly · 14/09/2007 13:41

What makes you think she isn't a troll maisemor? I thought trolls did just that, go on to wind people up? Was excited to have seen my very first troll in action.

littlelapin · 14/09/2007 13:42

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maisemor · 14/09/2007 13:46

Because it was a genuine question. She had had a discussion with her friends (in which she was defending the Brits), and she came on here to try and prove her friends wrong (that Brits do not give their children Calpol just to get some quiet time).

She was immediately attacked because she used the M word (which she used to explain why she was having this conversation with her friends (again in which she was defending the Brits).

She was backed up into a corner, provoked and started fighting back.

maisemor · 14/09/2007 13:47

"They are just bored"!

prettybird · 14/09/2007 13:47

OrmIran - if you look at the OP, it said "I refuse to believe this is common practice and i never came across anyone who did this when I lived in the UK (ok, few years ago now but still..... )" - so she was actually on here to get support for her beleif that it wasn't common and to defend UK parents to her friends.

Although I am not sure she will want to now given the reception she received

Pamina · 14/09/2007 13:47

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Hurlyburly · 14/09/2007 13:51

So what was with all the patronising stuff then? "Common in the UK" to do this or that. I'll leave aside the reaction she provoked on the mixed race hair stuff. That was deliberately to provoke an argument, no?

maisemor · 14/09/2007 13:55

You mean in this sentence:

"I thought by posting a question here I would prove I was right. This is NOT common in the UK. Seems like I was right!"

Hurlyburly · 14/09/2007 14:03

Well the Calpol point was conceded later on in the discussion but the home alone one wasn't:

"Wow I wonder what world you guys live in. Not just in Norway but all over Europe the press has mostly focused on the fact that the parents left the kids alone, this is NOT common practice elsewhere but I know it is in the UK."

Hey you know what? If I believe that mille is a troll, which I do, by continuing to argue the point, I am continuing to feed the troll! How silly of me.

Btw I didn't mind the funny forrin speak, maisemor

littlelapin · 14/09/2007 14:16

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