I normally don't agree with this poster on the Bully Emporium, but I do respect a lot of her views, because they do make sense.
Nurse Ratchit (Mrs B) writes:-
This is actually the crux of the problem with Denny. Most children aren't inherently bad, and most behave badly for a reason. Denny is all alone. He's bonded quickly in the past year, both with Jack and with Phil, both men with whom his mother had history and relationships. He probably bonded quickly with John as well.
Letitia Dean wasn't wrong in her interview back in 2012 when she described Sharon as a lost soul. This is a woman who, not only is a single mother, she's totally without any adoptive or blood family to offer emotional and psychological support. She was a widow who had a posthumous child. Her adoptive parents are dead, her adoptive sister is with her own mother and family, her biological family rejected her years ago.
Sharon only has Denny, and he only has her. But she has to provide for him and often this means what appears to him to be neglect.
Should she have organised child care? Of course, but then, Alfie and Roxy shouldn't be downstairs in the pub and have Amy and Tommy upstairs on their own, now that Jean has departed. Even then, we had scenes of an evening with Jean in the pub as well, and you wondered who was minding the kids. Remember what happened to Amy when Ben and Jay were "just downstairs."
As for her options of working nights, I don't imagine she worked every night. Surely, there were times when Janine would have been on duty at the club, and certainly Phil. Last night wasn't there something about RoNostril buggering off with Jack at the last minute and Joey being unable to cope? I don't imagine she works every night.
But yes, Denny is acting out for a reason, and if other people in the Square - people like Ian, Dot and Phil - can't see that Sharon is struggling and without any sort of emotional back-up,then they should think again - above all, Phil, whose actions seven years ago resulted in Sharon's isolation.
Nurse Ratchit (Mrs B) writes:-
Whether or not Dot has been bigoted or ignorant in her life is neither here not there; Sharon behaved in a wholly thoughtless and selfish manner. Regardless of her work pressures, she should be putting proper child care into place, not dumping her son on an old woman and taking advantage of her good nature. Denny is displaying appalling behaviour, mainly due to the fact that he is lost and alone, his mother just drags him from one home to another, nearly marries two men, so no wonder he is kicking back albeit in a hideous way. The child instinctively knows that his mum is blind to his behaviour, by stirring the pot he gets full attention from her. Phil made the point an ep or two ago when he suggested to Sharon that she sold her share in R & R and concentrate on being a mother to her son. I know that she is a single mum, but is working nights in a club the only option for her? And before I get a whole shed load of abuse about criticising a single parent set up, I grew up in one and I know full well the pressures involved.
This is actually the crux of the problem with Denny. Most children aren't inherently bad, and most behave badly for a reason. Denny is all alone. He's bonded quickly in the past year, both with Jack and with Phil, both men with whom his mother had history and relationships. He probably bonded quickly with John as well.
Letitia Dean wasn't wrong in her interview back in 2012 when she described Sharon as a lost soul. This is a woman who, not only is a single mother, she's totally without any adoptive or blood family to offer emotional and psychological support. She was a widow who had a posthumous child. Her adoptive parents are dead, her adoptive sister is with her own mother and family, her biological family rejected her years ago.
Sharon only has Denny, and he only has her. But she has to provide for him and often this means what appears to him to be neglect.
Should she have organised child care? Of course, but then, Alfie and Roxy shouldn't be downstairs in the pub and have Amy and Tommy upstairs on their own, now that Jean has departed. Even then, we had scenes of an evening with Jean in the pub as well, and you wondered who was minding the kids. Remember what happened to Amy when Ben and Jay were "just downstairs."
As for her options of working nights, I don't imagine she worked every night. Surely, there were times when Janine would have been on duty at the club, and certainly Phil. Last night wasn't there something about RoNostril buggering off with Jack at the last minute and Joey being unable to cope? I don't imagine she works every night.
But yes, Denny is acting out for a reason, and if other people in the Square - people like Ian, Dot and Phil - can't see that Sharon is struggling and without any sort of emotional back-up,then they should think again - above all, Phil, whose actions seven years ago resulted in Sharon's isolation.
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