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Too much control of our young people takes away their opportunity to learn self-control. We know now that you don’t learn how to control yourself by being controlled. When we confuse the two, we let our young people down. @naomicfisher @_MissingTheMark

Are your kids good around other people but behave badly with you? It’s about a lot more than consequences This article is a useful read if you want to understand what a behavioural perspective on children looks like. 1/ theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

This is excellent . . . as Storm Carbon is ripping across the south of the UK wrecking lives and livelihoods it time for us all to wake up and address climate breakdown . And a little humour helps . . .

It amazes me that despite tweeting 5 or 6 new bird photos every single day, despite paying for Twitter & having a big following, I still get followers saying they don't see my posts!🤯 Can you do me a favour?❤️ If you follow me & see this tweet, can you retweet it please. 🙏🐦

The biggest & best thing that is happening this autumn @8outof10bats 🦇 The new nature show, bringing you the wild, the weird and the wonderful. I’m proper chuffed to be part of the team, be sure to tune in. More info here tinyurl.com/2p8upb5n #8OutOf10Bats @ChrisGPackham

Today I can share I'm challenging the PM on the legality of abandoning key Net Zero commitments I believe the timeline for the UK to meet Net Zero cannot be changed at will by the PM – I contend that he does not have the legal right The ball is in your court , Prime Minister

Managing #AutisticBurnout when you're an #AutisticParent is really hard. A lot of the resources out there for AB assume you are not a parent. A lot of parenting resources assume you are not #actuallyautistic Here is a thread of things that can help 1/

📢Frailty elearning free to all! We're delighted to share that our frailty elearning has been updated and relaunched and is FREE to all health and care professionals, thanks to funding from @NHSEngland! Sign up today to improve your frailty knowledge. bgs.org.uk/policy-and-med…

The latest State of Nature report has just been released – it's grim reading . Nature doesn't need another report . It needs restoring . Now . Download , Print and Post from RestoreNatureNow.com

I just *really* like bugs. Tomorrow I’ll be joining @ChrisGPackham, @MeganMcCubbin & heaps of wonderful folks and orgs outside @DefraNature. Let’s show up for the wild souls we share this world with! Hope to see loads of you nerds there 💚 #RestoreNatureNow #StateofNature

I think this might be one of the most brilliant, important & honest pieces ⁦@MarinaHyde⁩’s ever written. Please read it. It will stop you in your tracks. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

MY BODY “Let’s have a look at his penis,” said one of the doctors to the other. Both were young and elegant, and obviously clever. “Is that okay?” she said to me. “Sure, go ahead, feel free,” I said. I almost added, “This is something I’ve waited a long time to hear.” The doctor fumbled in the front of my Paul Smith pyjamas, opened them up, and reached into the mass of overgrown, grey pubic hair. At last, she found the mushroom and bent over to take a closer gander. “No,” she said, after a momentous wait, “There is no discharge. It’s fine.” What a relief, I thought; at last, one part of my body that isn’t either broken or malfunctioning. Still, I had no idea why she thought there might be a discharge from my penis, and I didn’t want to ask. Before my accident, nobody ever touched me; of course, Isabella, from time to time, but otherwise no one. Now, I am turned, rolled, prodded and poked constantly, and when I say constantly, I mean constantly – every day and every night. I have had more strangers touch my body in the past month, then ever before in my life. I have become used to it. Instruments in my ears, fingers up my arse, wash pads around my genitals, under my arms and over my back, lights in my eyes. Everything everywhere, all the time. How did I go from being a private man to a public piece of meat? Naturally, as I’ve said before, the nurses are kind; I am their work, I am their responsibility, and this is their vocation, one they have chosen to do, and one they are proud of doing. I see it in their faces and hear it in their voices; I am their patient and they want to do a good job. It would be even more difficult to live this life if one were shy about being manhandled, if one had too much dignity, or fear being humiliated. I am already humiliated. It began a long time ago. There isn’t much further to fall. And I have to collaborate with the nurses, as they push and pull and roll me here and there. After all they are not humiliated as they insert a suppository and then watch me do a shit and say proudly, “My, that’s a big one” or “Today, it was only a moderate one, maybe tomorrow we’ll have more luck.” I have to continue to be amused about this; there is nothing else for it, I am not stoical nor brave, I do nothing out of the ordinary, I am a victim of fate.

Good morning! Street art by Jeff Evans. :) The local council had been trying to curb any street art but Jeff put a spaniel in the works.

I often see ‘Good Parenting’ confused with control. It’s considered Good Parenting to have a child who will stop doing what they are doing, because you say so. Children learn self-control through practice in controlling themselves, not through being controlled. 1/

BBC reporting a national guide dog shortage But the government have proposed to Shorten guide dog training from 2 years to 6 months Provide an apprentice route for fast track dog training Have guide dog associates to be supervised by actual guide dogs Introduce guide cats

Of the 30 hottest days ever recorded, no fewer than 21 have occurred THIS MONTH. Temperatures in July 2023 could well be the highest for 120,000 years. This story is the lead on the BBC website, 7th on The Times, 69th on The Daily Mail, & hasn’t yet been mentioned by The Sun.

I was a doctor. Burnout broke me. I left medicine. I retrained as a primary teacher. As medics we know nothing else. The jargon, the environment, the culture... It becomes us. However, we have a multitude of transferrable skills. Here are my top 5: 🧵👇

Farage is not a victim

So much smearing & belittling of consultants in the press, but this, from today’s @thetimes letters page, could not have put it more beautifully. Pls RT if you agree. #NHS 💙

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