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@JDaviesPhD Getting outside for fresh air and interacting with others

What helped you through a period of severe mental/emotional distress, and was not a drug, a therapist, or an act of consumption?

@HalilMrT4Real Being overweight and knee arthritis (made worse with weight) are the only things in my life make me very unhappy yet I find it so hard to loose weight. Crazy when you think about it.

If you could change one thing about you..... only one.... ...what would it be??

@Sue_Cowley deprivation, mental health, lazy parenting with a CBA attitude, Tory Gov set a president with their lies, it filtered down to all levels. Not recognised how lucky we are to get a free education. What if we said children don’t need to attend, maybe they would then want to?

Has anyone done any research into *why* families are deciding not to attend school? It seems to me like we need to think about causes before we can think about solutions. Punitive measures are clearly not working to reverse the trend.

@Katy_primary97 Go for a walk every single day even it’s raining and join lots of play/toddler groups. Adult contact and fresh air make a big difference,

My husband has finished his paternity leave, has anyone got any advice for being on your own? Feels quite lonely

@Matt_Bodell @RogersHistory Yes, fully agree but it won’t happen under this government fingers crossed for the future.

Labour has pledged to bring in ‘supervised toothbrushing at schools’ if it wins the next election. The responsibility for tasks such as these continues to pass onto the shoulders of the classroom teacher and away from parents/society. It’s ok, teachers can do it. But they can’t and shouldn’t have to.

@Matt_Bodell @RogersHistory No, the children should always come first, but if you worked in a school you would know how impossible this is. Fully support your reasoning behind it but there has to be another way. More dentists and dental appointments would be a good start. Schools can’t sort everything.

@edmunds_dr We did shifts with our twins it was like being on a production line. Feeds, reflux &nappy changes.Sleep deprivation is so hard. Only thing that kept us going was working like a team, trying not to snap at each other with the knowledge that it would get easier and it did and will.

I went to work today after getting about 3 hours sleep - parents of newborns how do you do it?? I'm really struggling. The fact Ella is so little means she needs feeding so so regularly - neither me nor my wife are sleeping much. It's a struggle to go to work like this..

@MissZ_history @WhistleblowingT Miss Thomson you are coming across as very young and jealous. Just be kind.

@WhistleblowingT Agree to an extent. In our school, parents get 3 paid days a year incase their child is sick. No equivalent for staff without children?

@MissZ_history @WhistleblowingT I bet if you have children you won’t say a word. Remember before the said staff had children, colleagues before them got the 3 days. 3 days is never enough if your kids are unwell and you have no support.

@WhistleblowingT This just comes across as jealousy. If you want to reduce your hours, reduce them. Comparing your working life to others will never end well. Working parents should put their family first. If you are unhappy in your job, you will always find fault with others.

@Ferdinand641 @ChirpyChet Been growing for who? Not the average person. Growing to make money for the elite. Meanwhile, NHS on its knees, school crumbling, police understaffed, but as long as the greedy make more money.

@ChirpyChet Silly girl! For the last few years we’ve been growing faster than France or Germany. Life is what you make it and you’re making it miserable. Good luck!

If you had to choose one word to describe Tory Britain, what would it be? I'll go first, mine is DECAY.

@75ThunderRoad @lisawino I thought mental health had to be treated like all absences due to illness. This is what I was informed on attendance course? Wonder if it depends on what LA you are under? Wouldn’t it be fantastic if each school had their own mental health worker.

@lisawino I'm not criticising you or any attendance officers. However, there are enormous issues with different approaches taken by different schools, Trusts, LAs. Some schools, for example, won't authorise any absences for mental health issues.

Some Truths about Education - A Thread My daughter is one of the 1.8 million pupils currently classed as persistently absent from school. She's not lazy. My daughter was one of the 1.4 million under-18s referred to mental health services in 2022. The trauma is real. 1/

@WhistleblowingT Tell her she made you feel uncomfortable by saying what she did and you won’t be taking it any further but her behaviour was unprofessional.

@Miss_Snuffy @sturdyAlex You are obviously very upset about this situation. Sometimes when things upset you this much, it is better just to move on for your own mental health.

If @sturdyAlex is correct and Jess Phillips tweeted this AFTER I deleted my tweet, that means an MP, our Shadow Minister for Safeguarding, claimed I supported domestic violence and questioned the safeguarding policies at Michaela KNOWING the tweet had been deleted. 1/8

@sophielouisecc Why is it failing? Do you use the NHS? If we didn’t have these public services that have been destroyed by this Government what will we have?

As a country we shouldn’t become accustomed to worshipping public services that aren’t pulling their weight. We need to have better standards … this is embarrassing. We should expect our public services to run properly it’s basic.

Tired of all of the NHS worshipping already It’s a failing public service not our national religion

@sophielouisecc Do you make these stupid statements just for attention or are you serious?

If you have to shut down your entire country to deal with for most people was a flu Your health care service isn’t up to scratch. It’s as simple of that. If the NHS is as great as people say we shouldn’t have had to close the economy and schools and ruin livelihoods for it

@scottjelfs @_____yllek @sonya_NZ @JackyHolyoake @WhateverNext22 @WhistleblowingT Kindness costs nothing.

@1funnylife @_____yllek @sonya_NZ @JackyHolyoake @WhateverNext22 @WhistleblowingT I am, and am very proud of the profession.

@scottjelfs @_____yllek @sonya_NZ @JackyHolyoake @WhateverNext22 @WhistleblowingT I always realise what I am doing, and try to be a kind person. What about you? Are you still in the profession?

@1funnylife @_____yllek @sonya_NZ @JackyHolyoake @WhateverNext22 @WhistleblowingT You are just belittling the entire profession without realising you're doing it.

@scottjelfs @_____yllek @sonya_NZ @JackyHolyoake @WhateverNext22 @WhistleblowingT I think you will find it’s not me attacking a teacher, that is you. I don’t think teachers play at anything. I do believe in not belittling someone for spelling mistakes on Twitter. I have respect for teachers because I know it’s a job I would never be able to do.

@1funnylife @_____yllek @sonya_NZ @JackyHolyoake @WhateverNext22 @WhistleblowingT That's just a word response to be honest. You clearly have such little regard for the teaching profession that you think it's something we just play at when we're at work.