GIANT TODDLERS RIOT IN SOUTHPORT..... just look at these people. They are not behaving rationally. They cannot assess a situation for themselves, they like a simple narrative and to move without thinking of the consequences. They are easily led by others because they have some big gaps in their basic development. We as a society made these people. let us not wrap it up in a simple narrative ourselves. We as a society chose to obsess about numeracy & literacy at 4yo and not to seek to maximise human development for ALL. * No PE curriculum to maximise and maintain motor skills development * No sound therapy at all - I am certain that all the rioters will have sound processing disorders * No checks for binocular vision or visual processing - I am certain that none have good visual skills We are complex animals. Human development needs to be the central theme of any effective education and health system. Let's make everyone in the Country fit to learn calmly www.fit-2-learn.com Public Health England Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) Chartered College of Teaching Special Needs Jungle Ltd Youth Sport Trust Merseyside Police Bridget Phillipson Catherine McKinnell MP Department for Education Department of Health and Social Care #motorsensoryintegration #cognition #skillsforlife #mentalhealth #offendingbehaviour #motorskills #soundprocessing #vision
Jeannine Olivier
3mo
It saddens me that this happens ....my toddler understood rules and respected his mum and dad. We treated him with the utmost respect and love. He saw people around him care, pick up litter, help where and when he could... we didn't take things for granted. (He may have had 1 tantrum! I did the same to him in a Tesco store.... and he never did it again.) We were thankful at the end of a day. Today as an 18 year old he helps the elderly where he can. He respects authority... and loves! Schools and parents teach. Without these we have grown up toddlers?
An excellent post, furthermore the alleged perpetrator and the thugs have much in common with regard to lack of understanding and consequences. These traits are not isolated and schools and colleges should have ring-fenced resources to deal effectively with young people who show that they are not ready for society. Parents who daily tell their children they love them and then set no boundaries are failures - let’s not mince words. They teach their children that they don’t matter and that they can do what they like. These children are insecure and drowning. Parents who care set boundaries and then slowly move the boundaries further out as the child grows and learns to understand the world around them. The High-scope project from America to reduce recidivism and ensure that the familial pattern of offending was broken was a start. As I have said we know what works, doing what works costs less in the long term than persisting with what doesn’t work. The young person who committed this awful crime is responsible but others are too and this needs to be the last of these tragedies.
Iram Siraj
3mo
No need to insult toddlers! 😳
Ivor Sutton
3mo
STRAIGHT TALKING and TO THE POINT! Thank you Charlotte Davies - these adults do not seemat all interested in how their actions are being seen by their own children and by other children who will see their action as being a positive "grown up" way to act. Am I right to say that some of these adults have been arrested for their actions?
Sarah Morton
3mo
We as a society have also created the conditions for the far right to rise - and many of these people are members or have been egged on by far-right groups. The conditions for this are underfunding public services, running down communities, removing worker's rights and building a narrative that blames immigrants and 'others'. There is a bigger narrative than just the individual needs of children not being met.
Bob Allen
3mo
Charlotte Davies I love this post for it's very simple summary of the current state of health of the majority of the UK population. Unfortunately things are only going to get worse when the young people who lived through the Lockdown leave school. A psychotherapist friend of mine has said she is seeing a lot of young clients with mental health issues directly as a result of isolation during the lockdown and this is likely to be the tip of the iceberg. All we can do is keep shouting until the right people listen and put the necessary support in place to avert the impending mental and physical health crisis. I live in hope that things will change 🙏😇
Kamika Mundle
2mo
I saw this post a few days ago and let it sit for a while but a question comes to mind. Are you critiquing the behaviour alone? Because the ideology that led to these riots exists with or without this physical presentation. The riots/rioters do not exist in a vacuum.
Nicky Bartley
3mo
Lee Pace this is ‘conformity’ and the results of growing up and being educated in that kind of ‘regime’. It’s an extreme example of course, but an example nonetheless.
Sadie James
3mo
Excellent post, these are challenging times and these situations shouldn't be happening. I am so grateful to have met you, now more than ever.
Barclays (Now retired - NOT looking for work)
3moMany have come to town just for the riot. The people of Southport are reeling from the events on Monday. They congregated peacefully just off the middle of Lord Street earlier in the evening. Southport will joing Dunblane and Hungerford, in that whenever the town is mentioned, people will recall, this incident in the years ahead.