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@suzannezeedyk
Jul 1, 2020 • 9 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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Today marks 107 years since t death of Mary Lily Walker, one of Scotland’s 1st major campaigners for childrn’s & women’s health. I am #grateful to know her story &that her memory is restored to Dundee’s consciousnss. We’ve been fightng poverty a long time. @WhimSicALLusH @margl43 Image
2. The interest in my tweet ths morn on Mary Lily Walker leads me to add a few more insights. Her memory had been largely forgotten until 2013, whn a group of her fans held a 3-day event to mark t centenary of her death. We publishd ths biography: “Forgotten Visionary of Dundee”. Image
3. Here’s a pic from the biography: Our group of researchers standing at her gravesite in Balgay Cemetery. I remember when we didn’t even know were her grave was. I now go up to visit her for a chat & ask her advice regularly. Image
4. Here’s another pic from the biography. It shows the desperate poverty in Victorian Dundee. Housing was terrible. Corruption was terrible. Inequality was terrible. Mary Lily Walker looked beyond her class privilege & used her STEM educ at @dundeeuni to make a difference. Image
5. The story of Mary Lily Walker shows how deep poverty, intergenerational trauma & ACES can run. 1905 report showed: In one set of 1345 children born, 53% died. Many children were sewn into their clothes because lost buttons were too expensive. That is only 115 years ago. ImageImage
6/end. The renewal of Mary Lily Walker’s memory to the city of her birth Dundee is fitting. I feel proud to walk streets where her name can once again be found, thanks to determined campaigners&fans. Here’s the @connectedbaby team stopping off at her marker on an earlier outing. Image
https://t.co/rNEqWdm6mz
And now our @connectedbaby team has got new ideas brewing about the book....! https://t.co/kpnT32NOjE
I've just remembered there's a great wee film by @AbertayUni TV abt the establishmnt of Dundee's Discovery Walk in 2016, led by Kelly Marr & @WhimSicALLusH . Mary Lily Walker's name & plaque is amongst those 9 Dundee luminaries! She died 107yrs ago today.

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Aug 26
On Sunday, I did something unusual for me: I went to the shops & bought a *hard copy* of @heraldscotland because I wanted to read @NeilMackay Big Read in print & sit with its message: "Adults, we need to step up." A THREAD
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2. "They fuck you up, your mum & dad. They may not mean to but they do." @NeilMackay cited the same Larkin poem in his article with me earlier this year. I'm glad. We hide from this idea. We are ashamed, offended, askance. We are overwhelmed. So we leave our children to suffer. Image
@NeilMackay 3. "One of the most important things we can do for our childrn is validate their feelings." Yes. When human children feel heard, their stress-biology changes. So does their behaviour. @garethkthomas said this all last week on Twitter. Lots of teachers felt offended & overwhelmed. Image
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Jul 28
Yesterday I talked about the links between childhood fear/distress and the appeal in adulthood of authoritarians like Trump. Some respondents thought this was a silly idea. I'm far from the only one talking about this, tho. So I thought I would keep talking about it. THREAD Image
2. Here are researchers Milburn & Conrad talking about their recent studies. Quote: 'We talk at length about childhood punishment and its effects on the development of authoritarianism along with its negative impact on the political system."
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/authoritariani…
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3. Here's more:
- "Our research points to a distortion of adult political attitudes as an addition to the list of negative outcomes from spanking."
- "The effects of childhood punishmnt on authoritarianism remained significant after controlling for parents' political ideology." Image
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Jul 27
I hear many people asking: "WHY do people support Trump? WHY are so many Americans willing to support his extreme positions (like the collapse of democracy)?" That willingness begins with childhood experiences. Let me remind us what happens in many American childhoods. A THREAD
2. Corporal punishment. It is still legal in state schools in 17 of America's 50 states. It is actively practiced in 12 of them, mostly in the South. Approximately 100,000 children & young people (mostly African American boys) are subjected to paddling every year, by this: Image
3. What about private schools in America? Corporal punishment remains legal in private institutions in 46 states. Only New Jersey, Iowa, Maryland & New York have banned it for all children. Lots of Christian parents send their children to private schools. @no2hitting Image
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May 9
"What is it that we still don't get?"
This is t title of an insightful article writtn by Cliffe & Solvason in 2022 an academc journal called 'Power & Education' @PowerandEd . That quote is frm me.
This is a THREAD highlightng the important qstns they ask.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…
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2. "In t opening speech for @TIGERSEYAcad 2017, Zeedyk asks 'what is that we still don't get?' Her point is that EY educators are often still not gettng the importnce of relatnshps, at policy or practice level."
Yep. I still think this. Well done @TIGERS_UK for opening up debate. Image
@TIGERSEYAcad @TIGERS_UK 3. "The dilemma Zeedyk alluded to emerges clearly when human development is closely scrutinised....Relatnshps are key to a child's learning, developmnt & resilience - inside & outside EY provision."
Delighted to see the theorists cited: @grahammusic1, @MoralLandscapes, Trevarthen Image
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Jun 25, 2023
A #BabyThread about the sophistication of baby teasing.
This latest post from @DanWuori has been getting lots of shares & many of you have tagged me. I thought I would highlight some of the nuances so noone misses its fabulous complexity. THREAD.
2. So what can we see? Well, first, there aren't just 2 of them in on this joke, but 3! I am guessing that Daddy is filming the interaction, because there are two points when the baby looks directly at the camera as he says 'Dada'. With that look, he pulls Daddy into the joke.
3. Second, this is an example of what developmental psychologst Vasu Reddy calls 'infant clowning'. These are "acts which infants repeat deliberately in order to re-elicit laughter from others". He's learned something of emotionally managing his mama.😀
https://t.co/6gB4L1QBWKcairn.info/revue-enfance1…
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May 28, 2023
How the new challenges faced by women footballers help us in thinking about responses to increased “school violence”. An analogy I didn’t have time to draw on today in my intvw w/ @Fionasstalker on @BBCRadioScot . THREAD. Image
2. A piece in this weekend's @guardian describes the increased hamstring injuries faced by top female footballers. Playing more often in elite matches places new demands on them. "Coaching methods are failing to keep up." The article explains how coaching has to adapt & change. Image
3. The @guardian article explains clearly how hamstrings work. We get a helpful schematic drawing & a Quick Guide. "Injuries tend to occur during sudden movements. Footballers are at high risk." So we've linked t biology (physiology) of hamstrings to real life (football). Grand! Image
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