Missing Schoolgirl Megan Stammers.

How refreshing you are, jings!

With you there, B.

Actually, Spekie, I am keeping Swiss hours at the moment!

Speckie! Must get names right!

Agree with Jingle that the Bandura thing does explain in detail that rain falls downwards, but a lot of the comments at the end were on the lines "this has helped me with my work" which makes me think it is aimed at social work students who are pretty young and inexperienced - and need a good quote for their essays.

The Bobo doll experiment did demonstrate experimentally (and quotably for the students) what we all know but some parents forget - a good example is better than a thousand words. It was also interesting that the boys copied a male model more readily, given that many boys who go off the rails have no male role models in their lives.

... and now Sir Jimmy Savile enters the fray!
A position of power, fame etc can be a powerful aphrodisiac...

Yes Bags. But it's the fine line between being refreshing, and putting my size 7s right in the cack again, that is the problem. Sigh!

Same problem we all have, jings.

Yep Elegran. Boys need dads.

NShS!

The 'Bandura thing' you refer to is a simple explanation of a lifetime's work that has helped social care organisations across the world research and develop practice and policy in child protection, children's psychological services, and offender management Elegran. Reading that simplistic explanation, which is indeed intended for students at a foundation grade, is like looking in the Beano for an explanation of rocket science.

You could do worse.

This thread was started with a topic which was not very pleasent at all but it has shown how much GNers are so well read and educated as to the problem discussed.Well done and respect to everyone who has commented.

It also shows that, although we're getting old [National Old Persons Day Today, I think] we still care deeply for the society we live in and the challenges that society faces; something that is constantly changing.

"National Old Persons' Day" indeed!! Do we wave our knitting and brandish our pension books? Who on earth designated it as such and who on earth knows about it(except us?)

When exactly do we turn into this different person, an "old person"? They seem able to move the pensionable age, so that can't be it.

Yerright there, jings.They can't call us pensioners any more as they won't give us our pensions any more. 'Peopleofacertainagewhoarenotentitledto anythinganymore'. Our raison d'etre being as a punch bag for policyless politicians. Has anyone noticed I'm in a very stroppy mood today?

Yes, I did crimson! And it's a good thing, in my book, to have an occasional stroppy post!

I expect we turn into old people the same way children turn into adults – at varying rates and at various ages.

And, perhaps like children becoming adults, some don't ever become old people.

It doesn't work like that Bags. We don't change inside. Just our bodies get a bit frail with time. We are still the same people. Our minds still work just as effectively as ever. (unless there is an illness, of course)

We do not need a special label.

I've kept detailed journals for the last forty odd years and when I read through them I sometimes have a chuckle and sometimes feel alarmed at what I was like then.

Different to now.

I hope I've changed for the better through being older and wiser and less fiery.

I agree jingle, we are the same as we were 20 years ago just a bit wiser (?), and maybe a bit more understanding.

We can only hope Grannyeggs. (love the name)

I don't think I am a better person now than I was in my 40's - I just don't have the same opportunities to be disgraceful any more!