But – I have to admit – I currently am. Shocked.
Twenty-four per cent do not think they need to be toilet trained by then. Teachers report that indeed, about a quarter of children are starting school unable to use the loo. They also report that some lack the core strength to sit upright – likely because of excessive screen time at home – and cannot climb stairs, and that many are unable to listen to or follow simple instructions.
I could write a book – might, one day – about what my mother saw as an outreach doctor specialising in family planning, trying to help women trapped in abusive relationships and other appalling situations. They were without the social capital to escape, or to access in the usual ways any form of contraception that would have prevented the babies that further entrenched them and their other children in poverty and despair.
But nearly half your class turning up essentially not knowing what a book is? A quarter still needing nappies or a potty? These are insanely high figures, impossible to attribute entirely to desperate family situations or, as they have been in the recent past, to the problems caused by Covid and homeschooling.
But that still leaves an undeniably large chunk that you fear can only be attributed to a great dereliction of parental duty. The kind of chunk that makes you want to ask many searching questions. Such as: do you love your children? Do you like them? Do you feel any responsibility to them at all as people? Did you just want a cute baby and then things got boring and difficult? Did you put any thought into the decision to have them at all? Did you actually-factually want them? Were you aware that you don’t have to have them?
Students no longer read long books - I blame gentle parenting
Read MoreThere are myriad forms of contraception available – I can send you one of Mum’s photocopied pictorial guides that she’s still got stashed in the meds cupboard if you like, though you won’t get her patented look of disgust whenever she talks about men’s bits, which I really do think helps.
It should be widely and loudly acknowledged that for all its joys, parenting is a real and unrelenting job. And if, when you look into your future and envisage any little darlings you have walking around at the age of four or five in nappies and staring at their phones, please do them, the teachers and all of us the very great favour of renewing your pill, ring, injection, coil, patch, condom collection, convent or monastic vows and carry on enjoying your life without responsibility for anyone else’s.
Read More Details
Finally We wish PressBee provided you with enough information of ( Why don’t people like their children anymore? )
Also on site :