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TOPIC: School Ready
#254624
Wyot

School Ready 2 Weeks, 1 Day ago  
Why do we never talk directly about the massively increasing problem of children not parenting?

schoolsweek.co.uk/i-dont-remember-it-bei...chool-ready-promise/

The problem isn't just for teachers dealing with children arriving at reception not being toilet trained, knowing how to open a book or follow a simple instruction, it is all the future problems to the economy and society that the soon to be dysfunctional adults will create...

It also reveals a hopelessly passive mindset in people expecting the state to do everything for them and taking no responsibility.

Does the infantilisation of our culture (silly super hero films for adults, moronic TV shows etc) go hand in hand with this? Are adult-children the problem?
 
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#254644
Green Man

Re:School Ready 2 Weeks, 1 Day ago  
I still blame lockdown Wyot for why MANY children have learning disabilities. Then again I do see kids wanting to have attention as their parents are glued to TikTok reels. I do think back looking back when I was a kid and my parents read to us even in public. It's scary to think that kids can't open a book when they start school, I am sure scummy mummies can find a cheap book in a charity shop to read to their kid as a learning curve.


Another thing that bugs me is that kids are pushed in buggies and kid watches loud American crap on a tablet - when the kid is old enough to walk, are they using their kids for more benefits?

I am not talking about disability/mobility pushchairs - but buggies that have seen better days.
 
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#254652
Green Man

Re:School Ready 2 Weeks, 1 Day ago  
Analyzing the graph, it appears that some language skill issues stem from parents not encouraging their children to speak English. In some cases, children born in the UK but have foreign-born parents are primarily taught languages like Farsi, Urdu, or Somali at home. They only speak English when it suits them.

There seems to be minimal effort for these children and their communities to integrate into Western culture. Consequently, many remain within their own communities.

 
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#254653
Downing Street Cat

Re:School Ready 2 Weeks, 1 Day ago  
I read recently that more over 35's are still living with their parents than ever before. Okay, so that is partly due to the lack of affordable housing, but I also feel it's down to an inability of the younger generation to actually fathom the big wide world. The tabloids playing a role with their 1990s obsession with stranger danger and paedophiles lurking on every corner. Kids stopped playing outside. A game of conkers had to be supervised with safety goggles worn, and a nurse on standby. Makes me wonder about that Axel Rudakabanu kid and his endless isolation in a bedroom staring at screens. Fear of invisible monsters could possibly create real ones? Just a theory.
 
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#254654
Rich

Re:School Ready 2 Weeks, 1 Day ago  
They spoke more sense on ITV to me as a child on Rainbow with Geoffrey Hayes, Zippy, Bungle and George than they do nowadays to fully grown adults. The same on the BBC with Johnny Ball who talked to us children of the 70's and 80's with more intelligence than many BBC documentaries now. They treated children as if we were intelligent thinking beings, now adults are being treated by TV as dim witted superficial morons with few brain cells in so many cases.
 
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#254671
Wyot

Re:School Ready 2 Weeks ago  
I certainly agree with posters that we live in an increasingly anxious infantilised culture.

I suppose the "solution" will be, with AI taking over so many jobs as well in that storm to come, that people end up mainly living indoors with wider families having drones deliver everything to them, while they sit on couches zombie-eyed watching programs about rating people's genitals.

We shall give up on a sense of responsibility and the concept of adulthood altogether; as so many parents, young people and politicians seem already to have done...
 
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#254675
Green Man

Re:School Ready 2 Weeks ago  
I remember Mr. Rogers when I was in the States. He spoke to kids like adults and human beings, and he even talked about death and grief.

Over 40 years later, TV still talks down to kids.
 
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#254676
Green Man

Re:School Ready 2 Weeks ago  
Downing Street Cat wrote:
I read recently that more over 35's are still living with their parents than ever before. Okay, so that is partly due to the lack of affordable housing, but I also feel it's down to an inability of the younger generation to actually fathom the big wide world. The tabloids playing a role with their 1990s obsession with stranger danger and paedophiles lurking on every corner. Kids stopped playing outside. A game of conkers had to be supervised with safety goggles worn, and a nurse on standby. Makes me wonder about that Axel Rudakabanu kid and his endless isolation in a bedroom staring at screens. Fear of invisible monsters could possibly create real ones? Just a theory.

I don't get why younger people don't move abroad where it's cheaper.
 
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#254686
Al Gershwin

Re:School Ready 2 Weeks ago  
Green Man wrote:68⁸
I don't get why younger people don't move abroad where it's cheaper.

Perhaps because the UK is the finest country on earth - with tremendous education facilities, amazing entertainment and sports, as well as the opportunities to succeed in life.

Currently I'm in Bath, Somerset - a thriving tourist city, where the Romans arrived in 49 AD and stayed for a few centuries. There's more history in the city than in most countries.
 
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#254689
Al Gershwin

Re:School Ready 2 Weeks ago  
 
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#254694
Green Man

Re:School Ready 2 Weeks ago  
Al Gershwin wrote:
Green Man wrote:68⁸
I don't get why younger people don't move abroad where it's cheaper.

Perhaps because the UK is the finest country on earth - with tremendous education facilities, amazing entertainment and sports, as well as the opportunities to succeed in life.

Currently I'm in Bath, Somerset - a thriving tourist city, where the Romans arrived in 49 AD and stayed for a few centuries. There's more history in the city than in most countries.


Lay off the Kool-Aid.

Why you posting a link for Bath when it's not far from me?!
 
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#254695
Wyot

Re:School Ready 2 Weeks ago  
Green Man wrote:
[quote]Al Gershwin wrote:
[quote]Green Man wrote:68⁸


Why you posting a link for Bath when it's not far from me?!


You two should get together for a pint of cider and a good natter...
 
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#254709
Al Gershwin

Re:School Ready 1 Week, 6 Days ago  
I shall leave that to you old comrades/buddies!
 
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#254720
Green Man

Re:School Ready 1 Week, 6 Days ago  
Wyot wrote:
[quote]Green Man wrote:
[quote]Al Gershwin wrote:
Green Man wrote:68⁸


Why you posting a link for Bath when it's not far from me?!


You two should get together for a pint of cider and a good natter...



We would probably end up rolling around the pub floor exchanging punches and kicking over tables.

I would be more than happy to buy you a pint of ale Wyot and Rich.
 
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#254733
Rich

Re:School Ready 1 Week, 6 Days ago  
Why have a pint of ale when a yard will do - that's two and a half pints.

Actually GM, I've never had a pint of alcohol in my life, so any gibberish you ever see me write on here has been done completely sober and clear headed. 99% non drinker. I hate the taste of all beer and wine, always have. I'm not sure how rare a breed that makes me.

I'll accept a fruit juice though, a Bucks Fizz or maybe a Smirnoff. How some men down eight pints in an evening session I will never know.
 
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#254740
Wyot

Re:School Ready 1 Week, 6 Days ago  
Green Man wrote:
[quote]Wyot wrote:
[quote]Green Man wrote:
[quote]Al Gershwin wrote:
[quote]Green Man wrote:68⁸


I would be more than happy to buy you a pint of ale Wyot and Rich.


A pint of ale next to a log fire would be lovely GM. But first sign of a You Tube video appearing and I'm off...!
 
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#254764
Green Man

Re:School Ready 1 Week, 5 Days ago  
amazing entertainment and sports

Do you mean your Ed Sheeran concerts and seeing 22 men/women kicking a ball around?
 
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