Earlier this week, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry opened the Global Academy in Hayse, London. This is a new West London school that builds mental health and wellbeing courses into its curriculum.
During her time at the Global Academy, the Duchess said that parents should begin teaching their children at a very early age about emotions and mental through play if they do not talk yet.
She spoke to two mothers who admitted that they needed a friend after having small babies. The Duchess responded by sharing: “It is lonely at times. You do feel quite isolated.
“But actually, so many other mothers are going through exactly what you are going through. But it’s being brave enough, like you obviously were, to reach out.”
While at the studio, the royals watched the Heart FM breakfast show being made. They also toured a studio there, as well. When Her Royal Highness heard of how students are benefiting from the institution’s classes, she said: “It’s having those age-appropriate conversations and bringing in the topic of mental health really at different levels, whether it be at a happy level or a more serious level.
“It’s the same with younger children, and even helping parents to start these conversations from a much earlier age but through play even if their language has not yet developed.
“Very young children actually do not even have the language to express how they are feeling, so it comes out in behavioural problems.”
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She continued: “So being able to find ways to address those problems really early on is great.”
Prince Harry told students that discussing mental health had been seen as a “dry, depressing subject” which “turned people away” in the past.
“If you can bring a light-hearted humour and encourage people to speak about the subject in that way, it puts a smile on your face,” the Prince said.
The Duke of Cambridge said: “The strongest guys are the ones who can talk about it.
“The weak guys are the ones who bottle it away, and it makes their lives spiral completely out of control. And it ruins their lives eventually.
“You waste a lot of your life worrying and stressing about stuff that frankly if you have a conversation and talk to somebody it will make everything much better.
Prince Harry said: “I think the whole country has shown a real appetite to want to talk about this.
“We have sort of unlocked something.”
The Duke of Cambridge added: “It’s like taking the lid off a boiling pan. It’s been simmering for a very long time, and everyone is desperate for it to come out.
“It’s just providing a mechanism. We need to prioritise mental health.”
She doesn’t have ONE clue about the ‘Hardships ” of Motherhood.
This woman needs to get out more and really see what a struggle is.
I doubt she’s so isolated.
You ‘doubt’ she’s isolated? Who are you to say how another person feels? Also, she is a mother of two, why is it so inconceivable that she faces hardships as a parent – just like the rest of us? Open your eyes and your heart and may start to see that humanity is more alike than they are different – no matter what their bankroll is.
Kate’s problem is the crowd. The nanny, the governess, the staff. Her children need an appointment to see her. They get their hour in the afternoon with mommy. The Duchess of Cambridge hasn’t a clue what loneliness is. She barely has a clue what motherhood is.
What makes you so sure that you know how she feels? The mental and emotional stresses of being a “royal” must sometimes be overwhelming. She is to be commended for taking it on.
The role comes with certain prerogatives to allay all that royal “stress”. When her burdens bury her, she can always leave her precious children in the care of their nanny for a quick jet to Switzerland and a ski weekend very much in the mode of the average common British taxpayer
yeah, cause in the US, Trump hasn’t been shirking his responsibilities as well, all on behalf of the US taxpayers. Trump’s taken more vacations in the short time he has been President, than Obama did in 8 years! You want to talk about stress? Give me a break!
Huh? Suggestion: change your analyst. Take your meds as prescribed.
The president of the United States was ELECTED to that office. He didn’t marry into it. Of retirement age and a billionaire, he gave up his comfortable private life to engage in a grueling campaign which he won against an entire party apparatus. His own and that other nasty crowd and their pathetic media servants. Not only has he been castigated, reviled, slandered, so has his beautiful gifted wife, his children, even his 10 year old son. He works EVERY weekend. Sometimes his location changes. He accomplishes more in a week than the lazy Duchess of Cambridge does in a month and does so eagerly without whining.
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!
hi, ivanka!
Luigi Pasquali, is that you? I wondered where the troll went.
Be careful Luigi/UF that you don’t choke on your own bile.
Huh? I’m sorry, what now? Did you know Adlai Stevenson lost TWICE. You’ve got the right name there all right. Luigi who now?
adlai assumes that luigi is one of your multiple personalities, obviously.
which is why your / their IQ is that low …. the average IQ of 100 is split up in lots of 20 – or less.
Postpartum depression is a real thing with mothers. Especially young mothers. Granted, Kate didn’t have children until she was already in her early 30’s, but again, Kate is still young. Kate is just as much of a mother as any other parent who’s had a child. Mental illness is also a very real thing. The late Princess Diana is well documented to have struggled with both mental illness, but also postpartum depression as well. So who is anyone to say Kate is clueless as to what loneliness means? I’m amazed at everyone’s rush to snap judgement of Kate or anyone in the royal family, simply because she or anyone who’s famous are in the public eye. Don’t forget, people are still people and just because some are in the public eye, doesn’t give anyone the right to judge them as anything but who they are. Which is just normal people. I’m sure you wouldn’t want anyone judging anyone in your family, because they struggle with mental illness or postpartum depression. So why criticize her? Seriously, have some compassion for Kate and anyone else with brief or long term mental illness.