Oh don't get me started on that. I would definitely kiil anyone who abused a child. My three nieces live in London and the eldest came home from work to find a man in her apartment. She screamed the place down and luckily he did one. You feel so helpless when you're so far away.
Objects don't emit sound. If a tree falls it will compress the medium through which it falls. Which in your standard forest environment is likely to be air. This causes a vibrating wave action which moves through the given medium. If a sentient organism with the appropriately developed aural apparatus is in the path of this wave action it may be able to respond in a sensory manner within it's own conscious sphere, translating the wave action into a personal sensory self awareness. Hope this helps.
From personal experience, I can say some parents treat school as a babysitting service and nothing more.
Used to need a licence to keep a dog but one sloppy night can lead to someone else’s responsibility for years on a human being that needs loving and bringing up. Detest fathers that don’t support their kids.
Assuming that your friend identifies as human he/she/they/it will have the requisite aural apparatus. It might not work though.
Have generations been destroyed in Spain where lockdown was stricter and more rigidly enforced than it was here? Or in China where it still is?
Said this to my wife on Thursday after watching some grub swinging his kid around like a rag doll. Luckily for him on the other side of a dual carriage way. You need a license to drive, go fishing and need qualifications to coach kids sport but you can have kids and treat them like **** without any background checks or training, or any repercussions unless you are caught. It's madness. There must be a way to sterilise at birth and then insist on a licence to get your tickle tackle working again.
When we played Arsenal in 2016 I was coming out of Paragon some Arsenal fans asked me where to go for a drink. I said you can go left into the centre or this way where I am getting a bus to a pub near the stadium. As we cut through to Anlaby Road 3 lasses and a bloke swigging lager came round the corner. Behind them came a really bonny little mixed race lass about 3 years old. The bloke said to slow down. The mother, at least I presume she was, said if the little **** can’t keep up that’s her ****ing tough luck. I saw the Arsenal. fans exchanging glances and thought welcome to the City Of Culture.
Heartbreaking. There is some real filth living amongst us. Unfortunately something you will see most days walking around the City, or any area for that matter.
It's because there isn't ever any repercussions to anyones actions these days, nobody is ever held accountable for their actions and it's always someone else's fault.
it is, the scumbags of 2005-2010 have all had kids now and they are even worse just the other day, hollywood bowl in kingswood was shut in after scumbags entered and caused a rucus and then proceded to shoot fireworks at the building but no repercussions at all boothferry estate is an absolut hellhole full of anti social behaviour as well and same across every city and town in the uk
I did a parent's evening on Wednesday night and out of 32 kids, I had 28 sets of parents show up, because three had already seen me regarding their child's support plan. That is an incredible turn out and it's easy to see why this is the best class I've taught at this school. The parents genuinely care about the kids and their schooling, but as a fellow parent, I can see some of the reasons why some children are the way they are. As has been said, technology plays a big part in the lives of children now. When I was growing up, I was big into video games but I also played sport and played out with my mates until after dark. I had boundaries and was shown what to do. My grandmother is an ex deputy head of Hunsley and my grandfather was a headteacher at Penshurst (now Hessle academy) and Brough school, so I was taught to read, write, and study from about 3. I could tell you all 196 capital cities, recognise every world flag and tell you the five closest stars to our Sun by the time I was six, which was useless but I enjoyed it. I read everything I could get my hands on because reading was embedded in me as a pastime and not a school subject. Reading always has been, and still is, the number one most important thing a child learns in Primary education. It's an absolute fact that children that can read well perform better, but schools have to do better in how they approach reading as a subject because at the moment it's still very academic. We're teaching seven year olds about context, fluency, inference etc and while these are key skills, they're sucking the life out of what it means to become engrossed in a story. At that age, children need to be immersed in education, not thrown information and drowned in technical analysis. I did my GCSE coursework on James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (A*, thank you) and it wasn't as dry as some of the stuff we're made to teach. Technology has replaced reading as a pastime, but it doesn't have to, the two can work in tandem, it's just that society has moved forward quicker than schools have. As educators we need to adapt; I don't mean putting emojis into every lesson and being all "what's up fellow kids", but something needs to change in order for children to have that natural love of learning that goes hand in hand with retainment of knowledge. I don't feel like schools recgonise this as much of a problem and barrel on regardless, because as long as the results come out alright, they take it as a win. If there isn't a 100% pass rate in reading without reason (such as dyslexia or other external issues), there's a problem. Primary age children these days are far smarter than the generations before them, without doubt. The problem is keeping them that way as they become adults and that's proving very difficult in the current climate. For parents it's so easy to give their kid a tablet and shut them up, so that they get free time and aren't bothered. But that's not nurturing their abilities, it's selfish. Obviously, some have reasons (I'm thinking ASD children who have comforts), but one of the biggest things I've noticed as a behaviour specialist is the amount of internet addiction in children under 11. It's endemic across our school and I fear that probably reflects in society too. The signs are pretty much the same as any other addiction, you take away the source and you get grumpy behaviour, lack of focus, tiredness, erratic emotional outbursts and in some cases, violent behaviour. In small amounts, technology is a fantastic hobby, but too much of it and it becomes a crutch that people just can't shake. I took our kids (3 and 1) to Peppa Pig World and we sat in the restaurant of the hotel waiting for our food. The room was packed but very quiet, because nearly every other adult and child was on their phone or device. Really creepy. Nobody was talking, nobody was discussing things, it was just eyes down mindlessly scrolling. That's frightening and exactly what the problem is with society. Kids copy parental behaviour; I deleted Facebook because I found myself one day scrolling through looking at posts and thinking "what the **** am I doing?". Nobody actually cares about this stuff, they just think they do. I deleted it because I thought, if people actually want to see my kids or my family and I, they can come and see me. Outside of my closest friends, not a single one has. Because I'm no longer present on their technology, I no longer exist to them. Have to say, I'm kinda relieved. But if kids see their role models making those kinds of connections instead of genuine ones, they'll do it too. They'll treat people like commodities instead of actual humans and anything that isn't on a screen as work instead of fun. They'll get their information from the Internet instead of the world around them, they will watch others experience things instead of doing it themselves (for example, those who watch "streamers" - yes, some kids would genuinely rather watch somebody play a game they like rather than play the actual game). How do you break the cycle? You break the screen. You switch off the internet for a night a week and have fun with your family.
Excellent post! For years now I’ve said that humans will evolve into having a second pair of eyes in the top of their head, as I watch people, especially young kids on their way to school, walking with their heads bowed, not looking where they’re going, staring into their mobile phones. I find it quite sad that the majority of these kids appear to favour their mobile phone as the communication method of choice. Maybe I’m just becoming an old fart!
It seems like you were always destined to teach Steven. Keep up the good work. A tough job, not a job I’d like to do.
