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"Compassion, empathy, these are things that our youngest people inherently need to learn. They need exposure. They need experience."
Karen Chetwynd on the human qualities technology can't replace, and why conflict isn't something to be shied away from.
#EarlyYears #Montessori
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"We'll give them the red one, because that's the quicker one. But perhaps they were making a choice between the red and the blue."
Karen Chetwynd on what following the child actually looks like on a school run.
#EarlyYears #Montessori
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Only 2% of London's council houses are furnished.
For a child finally given a bedroom after years in temporary accommodation: no flooring. No furniture. Just an empty box.
Josephine McCartney on what the Childhood Trust does about it.
#ChildPoverty #FurniturePoverty
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A child goes to school. The Childhood Trust transforms their bedroom while they're gone. By the time they come home, everything is new.
The quote Josephine McCartney hears most: "I'm finally proud to bring my friends back."
#ChildPoverty #EarlyYears
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"At what age do you start losing hope that there is something better, and this is not just your lot?"
Josephine McCartney on what poverty does to a child's sense of self.
#ChildPoverty #ChildMentalHealth
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"I am that kid."
Josephine McCartney is the CEO of The Childhood Trust, London's biggest child poverty charity. She grew up in Glasgow, adopted by her grandparents.
She explains what that means for the work she does now.
New episode Tuesday. #ChildPoverty #EarlyYears
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Sure Start: £2.7bn a year. Family hubs now: £300m. A tenth of the money.
Matt Buttery on what that gap is costing families, recorded during the week of the Labour conference.
#EarlyYears #SureStart #FamilyHubs #Parenting #SocialMobility
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"A good practitioner rarely answers the question a parent asks."
Matt Buttery on why effective parenting support asks better questions rather than giving better answers.
#EarlyYears #Parenting #PositiveParenting #ParentingSupport #ChildDevelopment
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"The best advice I've been given was not to give me advice."
Matt Buttery on what Triple P actually does and why telling parents what to do misses the point entirely.
#EarlyYears #Parenting #PositiveParenting #ParentingSupport #ParentingTips
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A neglected 3-year-old. Behaviour off the scale. The system already writing him off.
Matt Buttery used Triple P strategies. The family later told him: "You've got magic fairy dust."
He hadn't. He'd just learned some simple strategies.
New episode Tuesday.
#EarlyYears
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Go visit the classroom. Stay 30 minutes. If you have to look twice to find the adults because they're on the floor with toddlers, that's the green light.
Dr. Dan Wuori on what quality looks like.
#EarlyYears #Parenting #EarlyChildhood #ChildDevelopment #DaycareMyth
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Infant teachers in the US earn $0.59/hr less than dog walkers. Same data set. Dr. Dan Wuori on what that number actually means for the early years.
#EarlyYears #EarlyChildhood #DaycareMyth #EarlyIntervention
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