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[Squaredy]

16 hours ago, woodlover2 said:

Intervention as one in four school starters in nappies

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A charity says it wants to help families struggling with toilet training ahead of September.

We are doomed , wtf is going on in this country...25% of all parents are now too lazy to do the basics of parenting...I would have put a 1 in 10 figure on it but this is shocking. 

And why are the schools accepting them?  When my kids were at this age the school had a simple rule that kids had to be out of nappies.  Not complicated.

[Johnsond]

James Harvey on LinkedIn: Chancellor Rachel Reeves 'must come clean' over pensioners going cold

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I can just imagine Labours reaction if this had been a Tory decision, seems the old habits of secrecy we saw a lot of in the Blair/Mandleson era are still ingrained in the parties dna. By all accounts any savings from this have  already been wiped out by the recent wage increase announcements. 

[Steven P]

30 minutes ago, Squaredy said:

And why are the schools accepting them?  When my kids were at this age the school had a simple rule that kids had to be out of nappies.  Not complicated.

 

Yup, same with any clubs and after school things - have to be toilet trained.

 

It is not hard - we went a bit off the beaten track with the smallest and no nappies, the way we saw it you train them to go in a nappy and then train them not to go in the nappy so we just missed a step.. but had a lot of sudden side of the stops, toilet trained at about a year. Eldest one I couldn't find any clean nappies one morning (eco friendly reusable) so he just went without from then on, at about 2 years old fully toilet trained too

[peds]

The rule was no nappies from age 3 for the montessori my kids went to, and self-toileting officially, but I think they probably helped out when needed.

 

The solution? I don't know, maybe stick all the failed children in toilet training education camps, round up the parents and rub their noses in it then sterilise them...

 

Or I suppose make sure there are enough services available for new parents to ensure they are on track, and tax the rich to pay for it.

[Johnsond]

23 minutes ago, peds said:

The rule was no nappies from age 3 for the montessori my kids went to, and self-toileting officially, but I think they probably helped out when needed.

 

The solution? I don't know, maybe stick all the failed children in toilet training education camps, round up the parents and rub their noses in it then sterilise them...

 

Or I suppose make sure there are enough services available for new parents to ensure they are on track, and tax the rich to pay for it.

How about personal responsibility, less of a nanny state, and as for tax people more, how about less money being wasted on accommodating illegal economic immigrants. 

[Johnsond]

49 minutes ago, Steven P said:

 

Yup, same with any clubs and after school things - have to be toilet trained.

 

It is not hard - we went a bit off the beaten track with the smallest and no nappies, the way we saw it you train them to go in a nappy and then train them not to go in the nappy so we just missed a step.. but had a lot of sudden side of the stops, toilet trained at about a year. Eldest one I couldn't find any clean nappies one morning (eco friendly reusable) so he just went without from then on, at about 2 years old fully toilet trained too

A year old 🤔

[peds]

5 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

How about personal responsibility, less of a nanny state, and as for tax people more, how about less money being wasted on accommodating illegal economic immigrants. 

 

Blah blah blah blah blah. 

[Johnsond]

34 minutes ago, peds said:

 

Blah blah blah blah blah. 

Exactly Peds 

More taxation of the rich because of bad parenting, same old left bs 🤷‍♂️

Stick to fantasising about the war in Ukraine or killing rats ffs. 
You can’t buy common sense. 

Edited August 18 by Johnsond

[peds]

Calm down dear, you aren't rich.

 

Edit

 

"More taxation of the rich because of bad parenting, same old left bs"

 

 

Anyway, I have nothing to base this on other than my own classist prejudices (but we all like to indulge in those, don't we?), but I doubt it's the Guardian-reading, Green-voting, latest-batch-of-organic-home-made-granola-eating lefties that are failing to teach their kids not to shit their own pants, I kind of get the feeling that it'd be mostly Rupert Murdoch's great unwashed army of Sun readers (and the like) who are having difficulty with that most basic of tasks. So in my mind, at least, this is a right wing problem of their own making that us pansy pinko liberal lefties are compassionate enough to give a flying *uck about because it seems the decent thing to do.

 

Disagree? Find some facts and figures that prove me wrong, then stuff them down the back of your trousers to soak up some of the shite you seem to leak from every orifice. It's not much, but it'll help. 

 

Edited August 18 by peds

[peds]

1 hour ago, Steven P said:

It is not hard - we went a bit off the beaten track with the smallest and no nappies, the way we saw it you train them to go in a nappy and then train them not to go in the nappy so we just missed a step.. but had a lot of sudden side of the stops, toilet trained at about a year. 

 

Friends of mine back in France did that with their first kid too, toilet trained at a year. She didn't work, and could dedicate the time to it. Didn't have the time available for the second kid, so it was back to nappies, but when the time came, he was potty trained in about 2 weeks. Great to see.

 

For the record, they are both stark raving socialists.