My early years journey began by meeting people rebuilding their lives from addiction, homelessness, and family breakdown. Listening to these experiences, I came to understand that poor mental health and a traumatic childhood shaped their lives. I wanted to do more to help prevent those social challenges by improving mental health. But learning more only highlighted the need to start this earlier in life. Hearing from teachers and parents helped me understand the need to support children before school, which led me to the science of our early childhoods and the lifelong impact on our physical and mental wellbeing. And because my journey started by listening, I wanted to hear more about what the public thought. And this has led me to today - the realisation that we need to change the way we think about early childhood. And that starts now…
HRH The Duchess of Cambridge on this week’s big announcement and her Early Years Initiative | 17 June, 2021
after a lot of back and forth of “but I’m saving for episode 7, there’s gonna be four of them, gotta hoard” vs “this is a limited pickup, do you have EYES, go for the fairy ballerina” I ended up spending all 120 of my keys, didn’t get him, and now.
now they have the AUDACITY.
to go “oh btw he can also turn pink :) :) :)”
this is an attack on me personally and I have no choice but to vent my frustrations with an overuse of textures and watercolor brushes. if I can’t have him then at least let me have a million paper layers instead. >:(