00:00neuroscience is very clear that foundationally if you want to make a difference if you want to
00:06influence mindset positively pro-socially you have to go in before the age of six
00:14it's children between three and six where you can actually build a foundation for the rest
00:22of their lives but if you go in after six the habits of mind have already formed
00:28the neuro pathways are laid you can't make much of a difference and why bring this program because
00:35nobody is teaching our children self-esteem and empathy and peaceful conflict resolution and how
00:42to behave respectfully and with love and kindness and if we don't teach it to them how do we expect
00:49them when they grow up to have these qualities they don't the opposite is true so i recall from
00:57a couple of decades ago having um you know been knowing children who have gone through the youth
01:03justice system for crimes committed by the age by the time they leave primary that we don't have
01:09anymore not just because the system doesn't necessarily have the level of support but we
01:14our children don't do that and i believe that thinking court is a critical part in that um i
01:21also think that the we don't have any permanent exclusions and we have a lower rate of suspensions
01:26because of the emotional development of the child we've got the take up in london but this is not
01:32just an urban problem is it i mean you know this is something that is repeated across the country
01:38absolutely our children need social emotional education they're not getting it uh particularly
01:44at that very early age think equal provides the tools for our early years practitioners to deliver that
01:52in their classrooms in their settings um in a evidence-informed quality way so they know that
01:59what they're picking up is you know has an assurance to it um and the stories are beautiful and the
02:07practitioners like to deliver them so it means that all our children are are getting that education which
02:13is a missing element of our our education and how dangerous are the social media influencers who some
02:20of the kids might see online how dangerous is it if they get into their heads i think social media is
02:27incredibly dangerous and i mean one only has to look at you know what it has led to in terms of
02:35encouraging suicides and misogyny and murders and knife crimes and hate crimes but all the more reason
02:48why we need to fortify our children while we can so when we can actually go in and say to a child
02:56an act that is unkind is not welcome it's not something that you want to identify with or or allow
03:05think it is the the preventative aspect of you put the work in now and you reap the benefits
03:12lifelong for any human development rather than um picking up after things have happened
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