Frances Simpson

Fighting the good fight 😀

[Frances Simpson @FrancesorFran]

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[Hull Images @HullImages]

The new Drum & Cymbals Pub on the corner of Trinity House Lane and Whitefriargate. I think it blends in well with the existing architecture.

#hull #yorkshire #travel #architecture #mustbehull #hulloldtown

[Frances Simpson @FrancesorFran]

@Zero_4 As a therapist myself, her anger at his ignorance is absolutely justified.

[Frances Simpson @FrancesorFran]

@politicalhackuk The ultimate pyrrhic victory if Labour lose because of the likes of Owen.

[Frances Simpson @FrancesorFran]

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[Imani Gandy is at BlueSky Now @AngryBlackLady]

Having ADD is expensive. That’s one thing we don’t talk about enough.

I don’t know anyone with ADD who routinely uses coupons. Or rebates. Or buys something that doesn’t work out and manages to return it in time. Or who doesn’t have to pay late fees for credit cards. Or

[Frances Simpson @FrancesorFran]

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[Frances Simpson @FrancesorFran]

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[Frances Simpson @FrancesorFran]

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[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

Charles Spencer, with courage and dignity, speaks for all of us who faced the often-unspeakable abuse of being sent to boarding school at an early age (I too was 8), and the deep scars this leaves. I wrote something here about how it harms everyone.
https://t.co/AgKAu8lBfe

[Frances Simpson @FrancesorFran]

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[Mel Hewitt @MelAndStuff_]

Hull is named one of UK's most 'up and coming' places to move to by The Sunday Times https://t.co/4W9hAmU81k

[Frances Simpson @FrancesorFran]

@JamesKoppertCFC Think it’s his charisma

[Frances Simpson @FrancesorFran]

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[Rosie Holt @RosieisaHolt]

Oh my goodness the Sunak’s banter is OFF THE SCALE. I’m definitely going to vote for him in the next election now. #couplegoals

[Frances Simpson @FrancesorFran]

@KamilaKansy @NOCammack I love this

[Frances Simpson @FrancesorFran]

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[Finding Serenity 🌱🏳‍🌈🦄 @mmysticbloom]

This image is so good that I needed to post this!!

Now I will look at 'love' very differently!! 💖🖤🌸🤔

#MentalHealth #Autist #Autistic #ADHD #AUDHD

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

This is an absolute masterclass in trolling the Tories from Labour. Bravo!

[Frances Simpson @FrancesorFran]

@NOCammack Martin Lewis took the same train 😬

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

Dear @EastMidRailway this train (Ldn - Sheffield) is disgraceful. Every seat taken, every standing space taken, scores sitting in mid train corridors so I guess 500 people on it and ONLY ONE WORKING TOILET at one end, so people must crawl over each 100s to reach it. It's degrading, like something from the 19th century.

PS and as I walked to the loo, apologising profusely, a number of people asked me to say something publicly about it. One of the reasons for this tweet.

[Frances Simpson @FrancesorFran]

@MartinSLewis @EastMidRailway I was on the same train last week and I said the same. I didn’t try to go to the toilet, but the next train I got on had NO working toilets. It’s an absolute disgrace.

[Frances Simpson @FrancesorFran]

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[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Anger is a healthy response to being violated or controlled.

Anger is a healthy response to not getting your needs met, consistently.

Anger is a healthy response to having your reality denied.

Anger is self protection.

[Frances Simpson @FrancesorFran]

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[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

What should we do about attendance? Here’s a pathway I hear way too often. Child manages primary school fine, is happy there and excited to go to secondary school. They start, bright eyed and bushy tailed, and like many eleven-year-olds they find the transition hard. It’s a big step up.

Expectations are suddenly much higher than at primary school, not necessarily academically but in what is demanded of them outside the academics. They have to remember much more and the level of organisation required is significant. They have to get themselves from class to class with the right books and equipment and remember to walk on the right side of the corridor and not to talk. They don’t have one teacher throughout the day who they can get to know. They don’t know who to ask for help.

Eleven-year-olds are immature. They find all of this stuff much harder than adults, not because they are lazy, but because they are eleven and their brains have a lot of development still to do. They’ll still be developing until they are about 25, in fact. The things which are not well developed yet are exactly the things which they need to keep up secondary school – self-management, self-organisation and self-monitoring. It’s a struggle for them to keep up.

If their school has a high control approach, quickly they start to either get behaviour points or to worry about getting behaviour points. They start checking things all the time, and they become hysterical at home when they have lost a green pen, torn a homework page or they can’t find their socks. Emotion regulation is something else which is still in development at age eleven, and teenagers feel emotions (particularly when connected to shaming in front of their peers) intensely.

Their parents get alerts of demerits and they get detentions, having never been in trouble at primary school. They forget a detention (because they are eleven, and keeping track of things is harder when you are immature) and then they are in isolation. They start to lose their sparkle. They think that the teachers don’t like them. Everything piles up on them and they are increasingly unhappy. They start saying they don’t want to go to school.

School react by saying that if they don’t come every day, they’ll be excluded from the school trip and offer an certificate for 100% attendance. This doesn’t help. Their unhappiness increases. Every morning is a struggle. They become a ‘persistent absentee’ and their parents get official letters and fixed penalty fines. Their parents say ‘It was like falling off a cliff’ and they don’t know what to do.

Where’s the problem here? Is it ‘behaviour’ and they should simply be made to keep going to school? Or is there a problem with what is going on in some of our schools, creating an environment in which some children simply can’t thrive?

If we aren’t allowed to ask the question, we’ll never find out.

[The London Economic @LondonEconomic]

"Lucky for me, most people know I’m not here for my great political brain. But that didn’t stop Boris Johnson, so that’s alright."

Paddy McGuinness - take a bow 👏
https://t.co/7MPFXfJBeP

[Rupert Myers @RupertMyers]

He’s bloody good, is that @wesstreeting