Kate McCann releasing a book...

[Tasha]

I'm so sorry hun, this is my fault. I know I'm the person that said that.

I am basing what I said on my experince on the disapperance of a family member (totally different situation, but it hurts none the less) and my daughter's reaction to it over 3 and a half years later.

I haven't experienced the same as you ladies and I can see now how it's totally different, I understand now what I have said would hurt you, I'm really sorry and upon thinking further I think my comment was incorrect too. I'm truly, truly sorry, I didn't think.

Please dont feel bad, I didnt mean for you to feel bad, just wanted to explain how it is for us.

I am so sorry that your family member went missing, the not knowing what has happened must be so very hard.

 

[Gwizz]

Reading some of these links have been truly eye opening!! I was sceptical from the start, something didnt sit right when it all came out in the media and now Ive read some 'evidence' as it were Im even more convinced that the parents were involved somehow

Its just so very sad, poor maddie I hope she is alive somewhere but my gut feeling is I hope the angels are looking after her.

xxxxx

 

[anna matronic]

I don't know if what I wrote offended anyone, sorry if it did. I don't mean I don't believe that the twins don't remember Madeleine or that they don't talk about her as I am sure that they do. For me it is just the way Kate say's things. It seems to me like she over emphasises and over exaggerates almost as if she needs to convince herself. I dunno

But sorry ladies

 

[Samemka]

I don't know if what I wrote offended anyone, sorry if it did. I don't mean I don't believe that the twins don't remember Madeleine or that they don't talk about her as I am sure that they do. For me it is just the way Kate say's things. It seems to me like she over emphasises and over exaggerates almost as if she needs to convince herself. I dunno

But sorry ladies

I agree with you about this!!

 

[moomin_troll]

I don't know if what I wrote offended anyone, sorry if it did. I don't mean I don't believe that the twins don't remember Madeleine or that they don't talk about her as I am sure that they do. For me it is just the way Kate say's things. It seems to me like she over emphasises and over exaggerates almost as if she needs to convince herself. I dunno

But sorry ladies

I agree with you about this!!

i agree with this too. im not doubting the twins remember things after seeing how much my son remembers about his dad. but the McCanns do over do it and are trying to hard

 

[TattiesMum]

I dont know how to put this, it is actually quite hurtful to read some of this. My little girl was just less than two, it was four years ago yesterday since Honey was born sleeping, and she still talks about her, I dont feel like I fill her head with stuff but I do believe it is important that I allow them to talk, it took us long enough to get to the point where they would, they were so angry and sad but didnt know how to express it all. The thing is Honey and now Riley Rae would of been a huge part of their lives, so I think it is only natural they continue to talk about them, and I guess them same for Maddie and her younger twins.

Do you know what Hon ... there is a world of difference between keeping the memory of your Angels alive for their siblings and you as a family, and the McCanns filling the twins' heads with scary stuff about bogey men, being snatched from their beds, naughty men stealing children etc.

Those children have, in my opinion (believing what I believe iykwim), been raised on a diet of lies, misrepresentations and cruelly calculated hope


Yours are being raised with truth, honesty and love

 

[TattiesMum]

I don't know if what I wrote offended anyone, sorry if it did. I don't mean I don't believe that the twins don't remember Madeleine or that they don't talk about her as I am sure that they do. For me it is just the way Kate say's things. It seems to me like she over emphasises and over exaggerates almost as if she needs to convince herself. I dunno

But sorry ladies

She's always put words into her children's mouths if you ask me ... remember when she claimed that the last thing Madeleine said to her was

"I've had the best day ever. I'm having lots and lots of fun" ... now I know some very articulate almost 4 year olds - but none who speak like a character from a 1940's Enid Blighton novel

How many 3 year olds do you know who enjoy reading Harry Potter? ... another one of Kate's claims

Sometimes when she talks about things her children have supposedly said and done I have to wonder if she's actually ever spent time around young children? It just doesn't sound like stuff I can 'hear' young children saying iykwim

 

[moomin_troll]

I dont know how to put this, it is actually quite hurtful to read some of this. My little girl was just less than two, it was four years ago yesterday since Honey was born sleeping, and she still talks about her, I dont feel like I fill her head with stuff but I do believe it is important that I allow them to talk, it took us long enough to get to the point where they would, they were so angry and sad but didnt know how to express it all. The thing is Honey and now Riley Rae would of been a huge part of their lives, so I think it is only natural they continue to talk about them, and I guess them same for Maddie and her younger twins.

Do you know what Hon ... there is a world of difference between keeping the memory of your Angels alive for their siblings and you as a family, and the McCanns filling the twins' heads with scary stuff about bogey men, being snatched from their beds, naughty men stealing children etc.

Those children have, in my opinion (believing what I believe iykwim), been raised on a diet of lies, misrepresentations and cruelly calculated hope


Yours are being raised with truth, honesty and love

very true

 

[Tasha]

Do you know what Hon ... there is a world of difference between keeping the memory of your Angels alive for their siblings and you as a family, and the McCanns filling the twins' heads with scary stuff about bogey men, being snatched from their beds, naughty men stealing children etc.

Those children have, in my opinion (believing what I believe iykwim), been raised on a diet of lies, misrepresentations and cruelly calculated hope


Yours are being raised with truth, honesty and love

Thank you so much. That is shocking the stuff they tell them, the world is scary enough for 5/6 year olds. That is wrong, but the twins having 'memories' and talking about her with affection isnt.

And yes, if what the majority here believe is true then not only have they really really wronged Maddie, but they have really really wronged Sean and Amelie too.

You just reminded me of the interview (possibly the late late show), and they said it in about Sean and Amelie knew it was a naughty man who stole Maddie, what I dont understand is why they have been gender specific, and not said a naughty person. Surely they know as doctors that although rarer women take children too (I was told by the mw when in labour with Honey, when we were actually discussing the Maddie McCann case as she had gone missing just 13 days before, that there was a woman who snatched a baby from the hospital cos her baby was born sleeping), and surely with their theory of a desperate person who wanted a child, it could make it more likely to be a woman.

 

[Tasha]

She's always put words into her children's mouths if you ask me ... remember when she claimed that the last thing Madeleine said to her was

"I've had the best day ever. I'm having lots and lots of fun" ... now I know some very articulate almost 4 year olds - but none who speak like a character from a 1940's Enid Blighton novel

How many 3 year olds do you know who enjoy reading Harry Potter? ... another one of Kate's claims

Sometimes when she talks about things her children have supposedly said and done I have to wonder if she's actually ever spent time around young children? It just doesn't sound like stuff I can 'hear' young children saying iykwim

Wasnt it the best day of her life? And a child expert has said a three year old wouldnt say life, because they dont have a concept of time.

 

[moomin_troll]

my mums always said she hopes its just a woman who couldnt have children and really wanted one that took her and shes being looked after....but the chances of that are so slim.

even if the parents had nothing to do with whats happened they are still trying to hard to make out to everyone what great parents they are n the things their twins apparently come out with like "a bad man took maddie"

the more they come out with the more i dislike them

 

[AppleBlossom]

As far aa toddler's memories go, I think we underestimate them. For example, Grace went to my friend's mum's house about this time last year and she played the whole time with a pink barbie car (her mum is a childminder so has a playroom) We went back again about 6 months later and the first thing she did was ask for the pink car. We didn't have a clue what she was going on about until she went and found it. The twin's probably do remember Madeleine, maybe the odd memory more vividly than others. But as TM said, a large portion of their memories will be based on the nonsense that Kate and Gerry fill their heads with, which is a shame really but hopefully it won't override their actually memories of her.

And Grace talks like something out of an Enid Blyton novel (she's almost 3) and everything she says is in context. The way the McCann's describe Madeleine is how I would describe Grace. They're both very articulate for their age and the supposed last thing that Maddie said would probably be something I could imagine Grace saying. But having said that, what's the likeliness that she would say something like that on the night of her "disappearence" just as Gerry coincidentally chose that night to stand at her bed thinking "how beautiful she was" (although in other statements he claims he didn't go into the room on his check) Seems more like wishful thinking rather than truth

 

[moomin_troll]

its very weird but before my oh went away and died i had a urge to tell him thank you for looking after me and zane, which is something id never normaly really do even tho i was proud of how hard it worked for us.
we both found it strange that i had said that to him, but lucky that i did because its the last time i saw him.

so weird things like that can happen. but i do think they are full of shit

 

[amandad192]

As far aa toddler's memories go, I think we underestimate them. For example, Grace went to my friend's mum's house about this time last year and she played the whole time with a pink barbie car (her mum is a childminder so has a playroom) We went back again about 6 months later and the first thing she did was ask for the pink car. We didn't have a clue what she was going on about until she went and found it. The twin's probably do remember Madeleine, maybe the odd memory more vividly than others. But as TM said, a large portion of their memories will be based on the nonsense that Kate and Gerry fill their heads with, which is a shame really but hopefully it won't override their actually memories of her.

And Grace talks like something out of an Enid Blyton novel (she's almost 3) and everything she says is in context. The way the McCann's describe Madeleine is how I would describe Grace. They're both very articulate for their age and the supposed last thing that Maddie said would probably be something I could imagine Grace saying. But having said that, what's the likeliness that she would say something like that on the night of her "disappearence" just as Gerry coincidentally chose that night to stand at her bed thinking "how beautiful she was" (although in other statements he claims he didn't go into the room on his check) Seems more like wishful thinking rather than truth

I find it a bit odd, with all the kids sleeping in the same room, how he stood by Maddie think how beautiful his daughter was. Surely he would have stood where he could see Sean and Amelie and admired how beautiful his CHILDREN are.

 

[TattiesMum]

You just reminded me of the interview (possibly the late late show), and they said it in about Sean and Amelie knew it was a naughty man who stole Maddie, what I dont understand is why they have been gender specific, and not said a naughty person. Surely they know as doctors that although rarer women take children too (I was told by the mw when in labour with Honey, when we were actually discussing the Maddie McCann case as she had gone missing just 13 days before, that there was a woman who snatched a baby from the hospital cos her baby was born sleeping), and surely with their theory of a desperate person who wanted a child, it could make it more likely to be a woman.

Yes indeed - and wouldn't someone who wanted to 'adopt' a child in this fashion have taken Amelie? A younger child would be more likely to settle into a new home quickly after all

Yet another reason why I've never believed that particular fairy story

 

[apaton]

When little madeline went missing , i thought things like this where very rare and there must be more too it, this was untill i was on holiday with my OH and LO , the travel cot had been put in the sitting room while oh and i where supposed to sleep in the bedroom, i wasnt comfortable with this so moved the travel cot beside my bed, i also put a chair against the front door as i was paranoid someone would break in, i did this every night , on the last night we where all in bed when i heard our locked door being opened, i woke OH who ran out in his boxers, to find the "security gaurd" in the middle of our room!!! all i think about is what if??? although i didnt leave my child if he was in a diffrent room it could easily of been him .

 

[AppleBlossom]

^^

 

[CRWx]

what the actual did you ask him about stuff apaton?!

 

[apaton]

my OH was about to batter him , he said he got a call down his radio saying some one was on our balcony, we where just glad he wasnt an attacker at the time we never questioned much , i regret that now , im going to send an email to the apartments , last night i was saying to oh i would feel terrible if we never reported it and something happened

 

[CRWx]

it's very lucky your LO was in with you x