Naughty Nanna.......but doing the best I can!

I always said to my mum when she looked after my children, you do what you feel is right and if you allow them to do something that I don't, they know they won't be able to do it with me. As a nanny myself, I feel keeping them happy is the most important thing to me and, luckily, my ddil feels the same.

Well i dont agree with teacher 11s views (i am a retired teacher) but i do agree that there is a tendency on gransnet sometimes to 'gang up' or appear to which can appear very unkind. Disagreeing with views is one thing but sometimes strong and hurtful language is used unnecessarily.

My daughter and I have never really discussed rules, as such. I agree with chrissyh. If we fancy having the telly on, we do

Make the poor lad comfy on the settee/chair, with a cuddle blanket and teddy, put the tele on something for children and go and make a cup of tea while making him something scrummy and his favourite so that he will eat something. And don't even think of feeling guilty, his granny is showing how much she loves him, what could be better than that? You are brilliant, wonderful and the best.

mary 'strong' language, by which I'm guessing you mean quite forthright, is not the same as 'hurtful'.

Naughty nana here. I did use the word Tosh in a pervious post. I hope I didn't offend anyone.

petra I am truly ed

More offended by the pervious post rofl

Well a kerfuffle I seem to have raised. Very sorry about that. The poster who pointed put that teachers have to be 'loud and clear' to get heard in class might be on to something and I appear to have been more forthright than I meant to be. Nor did I want to criticise or berate the original poster, Katek, about letting a poorly child just 'be' as it's what I would have done myself.

Incidentally, I lived too far from my own mother for her to help much with my two children but on rare occasions she had them overnight. I have no idea what TV the children watched, probably, 'Eastenders' and 'Emmerdale' because what they really wanted to tell me about was the amazing breakfasts Grandma gave them. One had beans, sausage and stilton and the other had beans with mini Aeros stuck in the bowl to resemble a hedgehog.

I don't, however, resile my position about language skill acquisition. Of course, the nature/nurture debate still raging, it might all be down to the genes anyway. Who knows? The latest research is coming down decidedly in favour of genetic advantages though it would hardly be fashionable to say so and would raise a cry of rage far louder than any on Gransnet.

So apologies for the ruffled feathers, ladies.

My DD's Health Visitor has told her to put tv on for her 6 month old son to "stimulate" him. He is already as bright as a button and she talks plays and reads to him and as I told DD Galileo, Da Vinci and Shakespeare seemed to manage without tv. Health visitor not very pleased with my input though

Well, I've learned a new word today - resile. I'd never come across it before!

It was all going so well until the word resile. You were almost sounding human, then the teacher had to come out.
I will say here and now: teachers are in my Room 101.

Ana same here! I thought it was a typo

nature/nurture debate was ringing around my ears about 45 years ago - have they not decided yet?

And as for 'stimulating' a 6 month old in front of the telly - words fail me.

I resile from the word resile.
As a teacher I always tried to communicate clearly and avoid unexplained jargon wherever possible.

What's that you say? No teacher bashers on GN? (Laughs weakly).

I'm not sure there is teacher bashing. It's just that several posters disagree with this particular teacher about early learning.

I think luckygirl echoes what I thought right at the beginning. Just because you disagree with an opinion doesn't mean you object to every member or former member of that profession even if you did know exactly , given that we are generally anonymous!
No need for anybody to be defensive.

However........
I have to take issue with this
"I don't, however, resile my position about language skill acquisition"
Oh dear, "resile" is an intransitive verb, and consequently needs a preposition as it does not take an object.
So you can "resile from a position" but not, alas, what you said Teacher11.
#pedantsanon

Alea. Although I don't understand a word of what your saying, I like it, if that makes sense.

I think I have 'bashing' rights. In PRIMARY school I was hit round the head so hard my glasses flew off. Hit with the cane and slipper and had to say thank you!! Then we had the sadist who would crack you over the back of the head with his knuckle if you were sent out of the class and told to face the wall.
The teacher who knocked my glasses off went to prison some years later for assault on a child. That's how bad he was. As you can tell, it left a lasting impression.

Quite right, Alea.

I mean quite right about the 'intransitive verb' part, not the teacher bashing part! (Though I think Mr Gove would give me a detention for using an exclamation mark!)

I have noticed that many people judge all teachers by the worst one they ever had so there is not much love expressed towards the profession. However, I never hear any complaints about being able to read and write.

Pathetic.

And I don't mean Teacher11.