Where’s the threads discussing Louise Thompson?

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Expected to come on here and see some threads but there don’t seem to be any? So I’ll be the one to start it. Thoughts?

I guess it’s just jarring because when I think of kids in nappies ‘because their parents can’t be bothered to toilet train them’ I just feel sorry for them . It’s not funny

I know someone with 3 kids who are 4 and under. The 4 year old isn’t toilet trained. She is just a shit mum. She got out of a bad relationship which she insisted wasn’t bad, then jumped straight in with another bloke who has met the kids after a very short time. She’s more interested in herself than her kids. Sad but true. Plenty of nursery staff and teachers will tell you similar stories.

I'd never even heard of her until this thread.
Why would anyone take any notice of what some wannabe celebrity has to say anyway?

Its not everywhere at all. Not headline news on decent news sites. And if you’re seeing it on your SM feeds its because of your algorithms. You even note in your OP you cant find a thread about it!!

Threads about her are usually about surrogacy.

I know shit parents exist don’t get me wrong, but 1 in 4 children aren’t in nappies in school because they have shit lazy parents, some perhaps. But a lot will be because they’re disabled. Like I say my daughter is one of the children who are in nappies at school, but she’s in a special needs class, the teachers are trained to do it. I myself am training to be a Sen teaching assistant and it’s not something that will bother me in the slightest. If children need support and kindness I’ll be there to provide that without judgement. Some people are just nasty in there bones and it shows.

I hadn't heard her latest comments so thought this was going to be about surrogacy. But whaddya know, a twits always going to be a twit!

Perhaps it’s because I have an autistic daughter myself and follow Autism pages that I’m seeing it.

Here’s what I don’t understand. Teachers are reporting higher number of kids who aren’t toilet trained starting school.
People argue that it’s because there are SEN kids. But if you mention the rise of SEN kids, you get told there has always been that many, it’s just they were undiagnosed previously. Fair enough.
So, by that token, wouldn’t there have always been a large number of children who weren’t toilet trained by 4?
If there has always been that number of SEN kids about (just not diagnosed), wouldn’t toilet training have been a big issue back then, too?

Or do SEN parents back off the training when the kid finds it difficult, whereas years ago parents just had to persevere because they couldn’t turn around to the school and say “well he’s got SEN”

I’m not saying kids with SEN don’t exist, of course they do, but how did parents manage it years ago?

I find it hard to believe that parents are too lazy to toilet train their children. It’s exhausting and expensive to chase a 3/4/5 year old around to change their nappy 7 times a day so this cannot make up the majority % of the 1 in 4 statistic.

She and Ryan came across very poorly I think and it triggered a lot of parents who, despite their best efforts / wishes have school aged children in nappies for physical health or developmental reasons. Her laughing felt steeped in ignorance and privilege, a toxic combination.

Never heard of her or what she has said🤷‍♂️

Good point but I can tell you in my experience my daughter is now 6 around the age of 3 almost 4 I potty trained her, it took about a month of preserving far longer than my other 2 took but she got it even though her understanding and communication age is far behind what it should be. I was so proud of her, she was in pants for 10 months she actually started school in pants. But 2 months into school starting I got called in and asked to put her back in nappies because she was refusing to go to the toilet at school and she can’t talk so she was getting distressed every day and banging her head on the floor and holding till she was red in the face. It wasn’t actually my choice to put her back in nappies, I tried so hard and was gutted to have to take a step backwards but she has an aversion to public toilets that I don’t understand. I’m going to try again during the summer holidays as I don’t want to have to ask her school to help me, I’d rather do it myself like I did last time. It wasn’t impossible in my daughter’s case but very difficult and it didn’t stick because of her fear. She also got a lot of UTI’s and constipation from the constant holding too which wasn’t very nice.

We're past this point now...

I think that what she did was absolutely vile.

Yes, there are issues around potty training. But she laughed at and mocked children who are being failed by their parents. How callous can you be? Especially when she didn’t potty train her own child! She sent him off to her parents while her and her partner went off on a luxury holiday.

That and her surrogacy “journey” are enough to turn me off.

It’s everywhere at the moment so I don’t feel it needs context
Well I am someone else that doesn't know either so 🤷

The lazy and uninterested ones don’t bother changing the nappies very often either I’m afraid. 😞

FFS. Is google broken?

I hadn’t seen her comments on potty training but loads of people have said similar things including, I think, the prime minister. I’m admiring of her campaigning on maternal care, I’m appalled that despite that she’s buying her next baby. People can be complicated.

I had never heard of her and have only picked up what this is about from reading this thread. It certainly isn't "everywhere" - I follow the news regularly but hadn't seen anything.

What I'm guessing you actually meant is that it's all over your social media right now and/or all over the tabloids newspapers. Presumably you realise that not everyone reads the tabloids and not everyone follows reality TV stars?

Ok you want my opinion.

I think this is a very specific issue of late that’s overblown.

I have one starting in reception in Sept and he is in a nursery which leads to it. They are all potty trained. This isn’t a fancy area.

We did have a lot of issues ourselves with poos. That was mainly constipation from fear and I think that’s because we started too late. Guidance for our group was c. 3 when showing readiness.

They have since updated the guidance to 2 years old in the last year. So with my second we will do that.

I know of lots of kids having bowel movement issues in his peer group. Half of them are on Movicol.

So I just don’t think it’s worth a discussion tbh. It’s happened. The issue isn’t as big as people say as far as I see it and it’s our fault really for following guidance - which they have now updated.

Not really. But if an op can't be bothered to at least put a link on to something several posters have said they know nothing about then why should anyone have to go the effort in order to engage with the op

I honestly, HONESTLY have no idea who she is or why she is a celebrity, but there are without fail a couple of daily ‘stories’ about her in the Daily Mail Sidebar of Shame.

She has got either a) a dogged PR or b) a bezzy mate at the DM.

The issue is she sits in a very privileged bubble and has been absolutely vile about children who aren’t at fault.

If you don’t want to engage, plenty of people knew what I was referring to. You have the option to scroll on without being condescending and rude.

It’s everywhere at the moment so I don’t feel it needs context
Well I am someone else that doesn't know either so 🤷
FFS. Is google broken

I used Google to see who she was, once I read the thread , but I didn't know who she was just by the title of the post.
HTH.

If you don’t want to engage, plenty of people knew what I was referring to. You have the option to scroll on without being condescending and rude.
Also it seems that plenty didn't either. Maybe people have scrolled on which is a shame because it could be an interesting discussion.
A couple more words in the title would have made all the difference.