Let me explain. 19 yrs ago I we adopted 3 siblings. We saw them through a total of >30yrs in school. Every one of those years could have been more positive for them, their teachers, their peers & our family if more of their teachers had gained a greater understanding of trauma. https://twitter.com/drrlofthouse/status/1317212101870555136">https://twitter.com/drrloftho...

We as adoptive parents learned the hard way about the impact of adverse childhood experiences, foetal alcohol & trauma. In 2020 there is SO MUCH more valuable information available to teachers, social workers & parents than there was in 2001. It’s not good enough to ignore it.

Of course it’s not comfortable or comforting to know more. It’s part of the necessary challenge of being professionals meeting the real needs of children to gain insight & use support to develop a more appropriate educative & pastoral approaches to reduce the behaviour burden.

I am still no ‘expert’ in this field but my life has given me a chance to know why we need experts & need to learn from them. I’d like to think if I was starting over the children I might adopt would be better understood & taught by people with necessary humility & curiosity.

And I am absolutely going to shout out to @ruthcoaching who taught my children & who is an absolute role-model in this respect. Primary was easier for them all than secondary. And that’s a real shame.

That’s me done for twitter for a few more days. It’s been a hard weekend and I need to rest my mind.

And an unexpected text from middle son tonight (no education since excluded 10 yrs ago at age 15) that he’s decided to try to do a plumbing qualification. A new chapter perhaps ...