James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George DuPree
Took great care of his mother though he was only three
James James said to his mother:
“Mother,” he said, said he
“You must never go down to the end of the town,
if you don’t go down with me.
Don’t ever go down to the end of the town,
if you don’t go down with me.”
A. A. Milne’s James James Morrison Morrison was undoubtedly a precocious little tyke and he was only three. These days, he’d have been in the gulag for a year already – after all, letting him get to three without some sort of state intervention would probably mean he’d have been a hardened criminal. And who’s to say it wasn’t he who bumped off his mother, eh?
Nurseries should identify toddlers showing early signs of aggression and crack down on bad behaviour by marking them out for specialist tuition, said Charlie Taylor.
He said showing the worst-behaved children how to socialise and giving them proper boundaries could prevent problems escalating.
Well, yeah, can’t really argue with the idea that nurseries should deal with bad behaviour. Surely it is a matter for the parents and the nurseries concerned, though – you know, nipping bad behaviour in the bud, asserting discipline as appropriate? Especially as this period in a child’s life is frequently referred to as the “terrible twos”; that period when they start to test the boundaries. Nothing to do with the state.
It was also appropriate for some five and six year-olds with the most serious difficulties to spend some time at institutes for the most unruly pupils, he suggested. Mr Taylor said: “Any child can go off the rails for a bit and what we need is a system that is responsive to them and helps them to get back on the straight and narrow.”
Ah, right, I see. We need the state to intervene and send them to gulags for re-education. I get it now. The state is mother, the state is father and all is well with the world.
Do these nasty authoritarian arseholes never go away? (Rhetorical question).
“Especially as this period in a child’s life is frequently referred to as the “terrible twos”; that period when they start to test the boundaries.”
Quite! It’s almost as if they are setting out a future need for more and more of…well, them, isn’t it? Rent seeking on a grand scale.
Na, the age group is different, but the philosophy behind the idea;
Der Geschlossene Jugendwerkhof Torgau was a spezial home for youths in the DDR.
Between 1965 and 1989 some 4000 youths spent time in closed institutions.
Children declared „difficult to teach“ were sent to the Jugendwerkhof Torgau.
Youths between 14 and 18 must carry out hard labour, were subject to violence, isolation cells, darkened cells and something called “Wasserzellen”, (water cells…. (What they were is any ones guess. But water boarding springs to mind.)
As a rule, the youths were not criminal, they merely did not fit in with the “socialist bringing up methods” in “normal” schools. (Erziehung zur sozialistischen Persönlichkeit. )
Torgau was the hardest case, but there were many other examples of these institutions.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschlossener_Jugendwerkhof_Torgau
And I have not touched on the “insane institutions” of the Soviet Union, China, or North Korea.
How does it feel to live in “Free Britain”?
They’re certainly identifiable at two, as was said at OoL today but that the State should have any input on this is a totally erroneous solution. but we knew that.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. From ADHD “sufferers” being prescribed amphetamines to unruly children being incarcerated in asylums, we have come a long way. It is now too late to turn back, we are on the road to hell.
“Nurseries should identify toddlers showing early signs of aggression and crack down on bad behaviour by marking them out for specialist tuition, said Charlie Taylor.”
Surely that should read “Nurseries should identify toddlers showing early signs of aggression and crack down on bad behaviour with a smack on the back of the legs”?
well, quite.
If only that was what it meant.
Kids are put in nurseries too young. They should be at home.
Agreed. The current incarnations of the state are to be avoided. Engaging with any of them is asking for trouble.