Kate Middleton Interrupts Her Summer Vacation as She Launches a Series of Films on Early Childhood

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  1. TLDR:

    * Kate Middleton is launching a series of innovative films to showcase some of the key themes behind raising and nurturing children
    * The Princess of Wales, 43, and her Centre for Early Childhood hope the films will be used by professionals and volunteers working with the youngest children, parents and carers
    * Princess Kate, who is on summer vacation with her three children, has put the earliest years in a person’s life at the heart of her public work

  2. Can one person explain what has been accomplished with her “early years” work? Like, actual impact and not links to nonsense “announcements.”

  3. Sooo…. what is the point? We know that the first 5 years are the most important. Other than videos is there any actual help (genuinely curious)? We already have so much information and videos on that already.

  4. Can anyone links these animated films? In spite of googling, all I can find is an animated film saying early childhood is important and these films give tips to parents. But I want to watch the animated films.

  5. Is this an any correlation to her survey? I hope it all links back to each other so it will be cohesive! I hope this documentary is well done because I am interested. I’m just kind of disappointment in the way she’s dealt with the early years. I hope it improves. This seems like a good start!

  7. Video 1: How we grow an emotionally healthy brain.
    – our brains are responsible for everything we do
    – healthy brains help us lead happy and healthy lives
    – our brains develop throughout our life, but do most of their development in our first five years

    – brain development does not happen automatically, we learn from adults arounds us e.g. how to understand speech and speak and social and emotional skills like trust

    – sensitive, responsive care is key to developing emotionally healthy brain e.g. being cuddled and played with

    – repeated stressful and threatening experiences can affect how our brain develops, although with love we can overcome an difficult early start in life

    – early years matter.

    Will watch others, but initial thought is that this is obvious to most people. To those who it is not obvious, the literacy level required for the language is too high.

  8. Video 2: Noticing and navigating feelings

    – Explains what attuned conversations with babies or children means i.e. properly listening and noticing their behaviour

    – Children have to learn how to manage emotions. Attuned conversations help children identify and manage their emotions.

    – To have an attuned conversation you watch and listen to what children are saying, notice their behaviour, and interpret how they might be feeling.

    – Then show children we have understood their feelings, name the feelings, help them manage their feelings. e.g. if child cries respond to them that you understand they are upset and you are there to help.

    – With older children ask them about their feelings, listen patiently and show genuine curiosity. Talk about how others manage their feelings and we manage our own feelings. Books are good for this as they have different characters with different feelings.

    – Sometimes we might misread a childrens feelings and that is fine, just try again.

    First thoughts, this is a bit better than the first video. Again I do not think it is useful for parents who struggle with these basic concepts. I can see it being used to teach basic childcare. I have done this in the distant past and can visualise the accompanying worksheets of 1. Explain what an attuned conversation is. etc.

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  9. Video 3: Managing big feelings

    – Explains co-regulation i.e. using our calm presence to help children return to calm. To do this we need to regulate our own feelings.

    – Co-regulation can be as simple as cuddling a baby when they are crying or talking to a child about their feelings and giving them space to calm down. Its not about trying to squash feelings, its okay for a child to feel sad or scared or angry.

    – People used to think co-regulation made children too dependent, research shows it makes them independent.

    Again, this is not aimed at parents. It would again be good for a teaching tool for a basic childcare course. I wonder if someone has taken this project and used it to develop teaching aids for a particular course? That is how they appear.

    When I say it is not aimed at parents, most parents know that you cuddle a crying baby, or talk to a child about their feelings and give them space to calm down. They also know actual parenting is more complex than these basic instructions i.e. a cuddle baby does not always stop crying, and a tantruming toddler can tantrum for a very long time, no matter how much you talk to them about their feelings and give them space.

    Again those parents who do not have these very basic skills, and some do not, are not going to watch this. And in most cases the vocubalory level required is too high anyway.

  10. “Kate interrupts her summer vacation”??? What planet are these guys on? Films made well in advance, edited and then released by her people at an agreed time for which she has to have no involvement. How is that interrupting her holiday?

  11. Video 4: Back and forth interaction

    – Explains this is called contingent responsiveness e.g. child points at something and we look

    – Explains back and forth interaction aka serve and return

    – Explains turn taking, active listening and co-operation very briefly

    Again, this is very much a short film you might use on a basic childcare course with follow up discussions and exercises. It simply briefly introduces the names of these different types of interaction, but in a course would be followed up by more.

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