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lazy writing. lazy analysis. and in the Indy, did you say?


Otta Wrote:

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> The survey of 602 teachers in primary schools and 561 teachers in secondary schools found that

> pupils as old as 15 were not toilet trained, despite having no medical conditions or developmental issues.

>

So all you can really say was that the oldest kid who wasn't toilet trained was 15. We aren't told if there was more than one nappy wearer of that age


>

> Nine per cent - almost one in 10 head teachers and

> senior staff - said that a child aged between five

> and seven had come to school wearing a nappy in

> the past year.

>

So this could have been a single kid per school per year in 9% of the sampled schools?


>

> The figure was five per cent for classroom teachers.

>

what rahrahrah said!


> If the figure is representative of schools across England, it could mean that up to 1,600 of the

> 16,000 primary schools in the country have at least one pupil over the age of five still wearing

> a nappy.

>

>

so... 1,600 5-7 year olds still in nappies, out of around 2 million 5-7 year-olds in England

that's hardly an epidemic!

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> vgrant Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > the woman on the train yesterday talking about

> > going on a detox. Not the woman herself, but

> those

> > who make and market this shite by reinforcing

> > insecurities and body image ting. innit

>

> Wasn't me, but don't knock it till you've tried it

> (a proper one though or you're wasting your

> money). Most people use the word detox to mean

> having a slightly less self-indulgent lifestyle

> for a bit. The real thing is nothing to do with

> body image. I can't bear the words 'pampering,

> 'spa' or 'me time', either - if you ask me that's

> what's leading to five-year-olds arriving at

> school still in nappies and unable to have a

> conversation.



Cos mothers are supposed to devote their every waking hour to serving the needs of their offspring. Dads are ok to do their own thing tho, kids only need mums as slaves.


And before you say your comment was gender neutral, not many guys I know do spa pamper days.

LadyDeliah Wrote:

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>

> Cos mothers are supposed to devote their every

> waking hour to serving the needs of their

> offspring. Dads are ok to do their own thing tho,

> kids only need mums as slaves.

>

> And before you say your comment was gender

> neutral, not many guys I know do spa pamper days.


Your interpretation not mine, but you're right to the extent that men do narcissism differently.

Ditto mothers.


So, RPC are you saying that parents doing pamper/spa/me time type stuff are narcissistic?


Do you think that parents should put their kids at the centre of their universe and devote all their energy to them?


Just interested because I'd rather top myself than feel obliged to become that kind of parent or I'd want to kill the bratty, self-absorbed kids that kind of parenting produces.

vgrant Wrote:

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> my thread, my rules- please move this this

> discussion elsewhere. we dont tolerate no

> dialectics here innit. this is for low level

> shouting at the world and raising your fist to the

> heavens



Happy to oblige.


On the shouting/fist-waving, how is that different from any other thread?

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