Unhappy children.

[Less]

Originally Posted by Eric

I hope none of the health and safety nazis are reading this.

I hope they are reading it, they might just realise kids aren't made of crystal, they don't shatter when they have a small bump, therefore no need for thick layers of cotton wool.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Less

I hope they are reading it, they might just realise kids aren't made of crystal, they don't shatter when they have a small bump, therefore no need for thick layers of cotton wool.

I always remember my mom when I came home bleeding. If it wasn't arterial, or if it didn't obviously need stitches, it got washed and doused with iodine. And I got a hard, swift one or two on my lugs for being so careless Lucky my mom loved me (and I loved her) or it could have got real brutal.

[claytonx]

Originally Posted by accyman

on saturday there will be two more children to add to these lastest statitstics because i just scoffed the last curly whirly's from my kids selection box's

Free Curly Wurly ih todays Daily Express so you can replace it Accyman.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by Eric

I always remember my mom when I came home bleeding. If it wasn't arterial, or if it didn't obviously need stitches, it got washed and doused with iodine. And I got a hard, swift one or two on my lugs for being so careless Lucky my mom loved me (and I loved her) or it could have got real brutal.

I must have been to the same parenting school Eric........If my daughter came home and said her leg was bleeding.......I used to ask if it was hanging by a thread...and could she still walk on it...if the answers were a 'no' and then a 'yes'...I would tell her she was alright and she would die after it.

Didn't put much on cuts or grazes.....just held them under running water(extremities, that is)......if no running water available I have to admit to using mumspit. She survived!

[jaysay]

Thinking of children, my Daughter always comes on a Saturday, she does my shopping for me, when she comes in I always ask her how her hubby is and my Granddaughter, this morning she said, she's dead, didn't come in while 3-30am, just before I came out she text me, why was she not in, no she was in bedshe sent her mother a text from upstairs, beam me up scotty

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I must have been to the same parenting school Eric........If my daughter came home and said her leg was bleeding.......I used to ask if it was hanging by a thread...and could she still walk on it...if the answers were a 'no' and then a 'yes'...I would tell her she was alright and she would die after it.

Didn't put much on cuts or grazes.....just held them under running water(extremities, that is)......if no running water available I have to admit to using mumspit. She survived!

Think my mum did the iodine thing 'cause it stung like hell ... an extra reminder to be careful

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by Eric

Think my mum did the iodine thing 'cause it stung like hell ... an extra reminder to be careful

Quite so -reinforces the memory and makes sure you are more careful next time. I had two boys who had constantly grazed knees for a period of about 10 years (there are 5 yrs between the 2 of them) -I had an emergency first aid kit in the car as accidents happened anywhere and everywhere.

You boys -all the same

[Eric]

Originally Posted by mobertol

Quite so -reinforces the memory and makes sure you are more careful next time. I had two boys who had constantly grazed knees for a period of about 10 years (there are 5 yrs between the 2 of them) -I had an emergency first aid kit in the car as accidents happened anywhere and everywhere.

You boys -all the same

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by Eric

If you need iodine applying just ask -it's part of my regular torture kit

[walkinman221]

"mumspit" Now that brings back memories of hankys just before you left the house, to make sure you wern't to grubby to be seen in public

[garinda]

What a load of old guff.

http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/s...ren_policy.pdf

Though with 25% of children in the U.K. apparently living in 'poverty', these latest figures aren't too bad.



Still, I suppose little Amba-Mae, and Kyle, might be a little down in the dumps, when they realise the odds of them becoming famous as a WAG, or winning the X-Factor, are stacked against them.

[annesingleton]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

There has beeen a study published today that reckons that 9% of the children in this country are unhappy.

This study looked at children between the ages of 8 and 15....it asked a variety of questions to determine the 'well-being' factor of children.
Who pays to commission these studies?
Do they do any real good ?
Are they relevant?

In my view this survey has looked at the negaitve side of the coin......9% are unhappy....which must mean that 91% are happy.
Yet they are concentrating on the minority...telling parents that they should involve children in family decisions.....and giving other bits of totally useless advice(like give them spending money, buy them branded trainers....you get the idea....materialistic stuff...which begs the question as to what children were asked in the survey)
Maybe we should send this 9% to the slums of India, Somalia, or some other third world country where children don't have TV in their bedroom(they might not even have a bedroom) where the children don't have laptops, ipods etc, where the children get no schooling and may not even get enough to eat.

Do children today have anything to be really unhappy about?

I think you might all be missing the point, in our day we were all in the same boat and knew what our expectations were even though we knew that we could change our lot and move forward. They were good times. The 9% of children mentioned here are generally excluded from society with a history of families living on benefits and no idea of their potential and no ambition or hope for the future. Equally these 9% most likely don't have TV in their bedroom(they might not even have a bedroom) where the children don't have laptops, ipods etc, where the children get no schooling and may not even get enough to eat. They live in a self perpetuating system of no hope.
It's all relative and what's going on in third world countries should not be relative to our young people. Our young people should have ample opportunity to progress themselves but unfortunately their life chances and opportunities are limited by their family situations which is not assisted by the public's perceptions.
Not all young people have caring and happy families, whether well off or poor. You can be poor with good prospects or poor and hopeless.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by annesingleton

The 9% of children mentioned here are generally excluded from society with a history of families living on benefits and no idea of their potential and no ambition or hope for the future.

Oh I must have missed that, reading the various reports, about this survey carried out by the Children's Society.

Where does it give the socio-economic breakdown of these children, which show the 9% of 'unhappy' children, are all from the same background?

Please could you supply this evidence?

Silly me.

I was under the misapprehension that the 'unhappy' tots are just as likely to be sat in their bedrooms, surrounded by every conceivable luxury.

Look forward to seeing the breakdown.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by annesingleton

Equally these 9% most likely don't have TV in their bedroom(they might not even have a bedroom) where the children don't have laptops, ipods etc,

Makes me rather unhappy the some daft ha'p'orths equate possessing material goods with happiness.

I personally know many people who grow up with literally next to nowt, except love, and who had very happy childhoods.

[annesingleton]

Sorry Garinda, I'm not referring to the study but from my own thirty years experience of working with young people and families, I know I should have been more specific I stand corrected.
Additionally I agree that people can grow up with nothing and know that they have everything, unfortunately there is a section of society who seem to want material goods who do not have the understanding that they have to be earned, and in today's materialistic society are willing to get them by any means and do equate them with happiness.