Jo Frost says parents would rather label their child as ‘ADD, ADHD, ODD and every other ABCD’ rather than say they’re naughty – here’s why she’s wrong
As the mother of a child with SEND I was stunned to read Jo Frost, otherwise known as Supernanny’s latest caption on Instagram: 'Today in the 21st century people want to banish the word 'naughty,'’ she wrote. ‘They say it is a negative word to describe a child's behaviour. Yet we desperately want tohas already received almost 1,000 comments, mostly from angry mums like me, but more worryingly it’s also been liked over 4,000 times.
‘We are not desperate to label our children,’ wrote another. ‘We are desperate to be heard. This post completely undermines the struggles that neurodivergent adults and children face by a world that struggles to accept them for who they are.’ Unfortunately, the idea that neurodiversity is simply a child being ‘naughty’, or something caused by lazy parenting, still pervades. The line between naughty and neurodiverse is often blurred because many neurodivergent traits, including being blunt, impulsive, or disorganised, are confused with being naughty.
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