Anti-social seven-year-olds tackled in Joiners Square

“Johnboy & Bucknallmel I admire what you have done bringing up your kids in the right way but unfortunately nowadays you are in the minority!!!”

“Well said BucknallMel, I'm a single dad and my daughters have never been in any kind of trouble, I've devoted the last 12 years to bringing up my girls, and its not been easy but I am proud they have turned out right, and I might add they both go to work, and not left school and got their themselves pregnant like a lot of teenage girls today.”

“by Anon_mow_cop
"Some of these kids being "street-wise" know if they are under 10 years old they cant be prosecuted." Unquote.

That's right mate. And who teaches them that -Yes, that's right too, -inadequate, uncaring, anti-social parenting. whose own parents were often the same.”

“And all power to you Mel. If you read my posts, I call no one a Chavett, and in fact I do not point to single mums as a problem o kind hear. You can bet the problem hear is young lads mostly between the age of 10 to 16 with there mothers let down by uncaring scumbags of men who will not live up in any way to what they brought into the world, and done it time and time again. I worked with one lovely woman who was a lone mum of a 13 year old yob, she tried he best stop him going out on the rampage, he pushed her on her backside more then once. I'm not an advocate of hitting kids, but some of these lads need a father with a set of b***s, not one who sold join them in a can or two an a bricking war with the yobs of the next street.”

“warren, I'm a single mum and my kids have never been in any kind of trouble. Not all single mums are chavettes. And those that are, mostly aren't single, but have serial partners. The worst one in my area has three boyfriends who seem to take turns living with her and her large collection of ill-behaved brats, so that there is always a 'dad' living there (not, of course, in the eyes of the DWP). How many of these problem 'single' mums do you know who are actually single and not living with some oaf?”

“The teaching of good behaviour to others indeed starts and ends in the home of the child... from an early age upwards. As, in my opinion the vast majority of their reading ability should also be taught in the home. In fact the two are inter-related.

Children who are read to and taught to love books from the earliest months -and encouraged to 'share a book' with a parent or older sibling- and especially have a 'book at bedtime' read to them by mum or dad -will not only be ahead in their reading ability as they progress through school, but will have a far better understanding of what life, learning and others are all about.

Sticking them in front of the telly and/or computer games is fatal.”

“@warren-lloyd

I must be in the minority, but I agree with you it's down to the parents, people shouldn't try and fob-it off on the teachers and lack of discipline at school, it's starts in the home.”

“Some of these kids being "street-wise" know if they are under 10 years old they cant be prosecuted.”

“Ohhhh! Red arrows for saying what many people think. Are they from single mums or deadbeat absent fathers who won't man the hell up.”

“Doesn't that police 'officer' look intimidating and possess an air of authority? not. It would probably help to have some proper coppers again instead of bits of kids. A lot of these yobs just laugh at these toy coppers.”