swee'pea99
Legendary Member
There's hope for us yet:
These are children who obviously understand Rory's condition and genuinely feel warmth and friendship towards him. Lets just hope it continues into their teenage years when hormones start raging and the nitpicking generally starts.
Couldn't agree more. I do wonder whether it's because I live in a 'nice' part of the world, but every time I hear/read about the Daily Wailing about how everything's going to pot and the young have gone feral, I look around me at my daughters' peers and you couldn't ask for a nicer, more decent, more polite, more considerate bunch.One of our boys has DS. All the kids at Primary school were nice to him. All the kids at Secondary school were nice to him. Now he has left Secondary school his younger brother's friends at Secondary school are invariably nice to him too. It's easy to fear the worst in children when you have a child who is vulnerable but my experience is that these fears are very much exaggerated
From my limited contact with the young (I have none of my own, but ex GF had 3 and I have nephews, nieces; friends with young families etc..) I would say they are on the whole more balanced than the lot I went to school with in the 70's.. They do seem more academic, less aggressive, and generally better behaved than we were. I went to school with some real headcases, and that was a public school in a small, picturesque borders town.Couldn't agree more. I do wonder whether it's because I live in a 'nice' part of the world, but every time I hear/read about the Daily Wailing about how everything's going to pot and the young have gone feral, I look around me at my daughters' peers and you couldn't ask for a nicer, more decent, more polite, more considerate bunch.
Over many, many years in teaching, one of the biggest and most heartwarming changes I have seen is the way (in the main) kids look out for, and are protective, of fair treatment and recognition for their fellows with different abilities.Lets just hope it continues into their teenage years when hormones start raging and the nitpicking generally starts.
No, it's not.I do wonder whether it's because I live in a 'nice' part of the world, .......