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Jun 29, 2022 16 tweets 6 min read Read on X
Great to be at #RCPCH22 listening to Jack Shonkoff from @HarvardCenter talking about early childhood policy and practice. @RCPCHtweets
Three ways of thinking about early childhood development: 1) moral responsibility, 2) ecd as a foundational investment in society, and 3) untapped power of advances in science and lived experience.
TLDR: Start early 👇, #earlymomentsmatter
Fascinating insights into how early childhood science is advancing: 3 examples
Nice quote: (guess who?)

“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them”
Time for a mindset shift. ECD 1.0 is still relevant, but time for ECD 2.0.
[Comment: how much of this is really new? To my mind, most of this is/should be captured in a proper application of @NurturingCare shouldn’t it @LindaRichterECD @markskeptic & others? Is this just ECD ‘discovering’ public health? Good to highlight this, and racism, though]
The biology here is complex, fascinating and important: nice summary of role of cortisol/stress 👇
Resilience in the face of adversity: it can be built, and relationships are central.
1) support responsive adult-child relationships (with parents, and others too)
2) strengthen core skills and building blocks of resilience
3) reduce sources of significant stress
But the tricky bit isn’t know that these things need to be done, it’s working out how to do them. [strongly agree!]
Interesting example of the revolution in the treatment of ALL, and how we need to apply this to early childhood development.

Strong emphasis on the value of risk stratification. Greater precision in the response. No one size fits all model.
Now, learning from @Apple… and a catalogue of learning from failure to win big. Time to apply this to early childhood development?
Time to move beyond demonstration projects. We need to get better at learning from, and allowing, failure, and personalising/stratifying responses.
Fascinating discussion Q&A.

- why such a mismatch between “the science” and the investments in early childhood?

“We would do a better job of arguing for resources if we better communicate what works and don’t oversell what doesn’t”
💯this: “How often when things aren’t going well in a group do you wish everyone had 5 more IQ points vs having better social/emotional skills?”

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Sep 1, 2021
As a parent who is sending 2 kids back to school tomorrow, I think this is excellent, and timely, reporting here from @NickTriggle

bbc.co.uk/news/health-58…
Also, as a researcher who has worked on another study looking at these questions, it's also reassuring when your - similarly reassuring - findings are replicated.

(Our study: thelancet.com/journals/lanch…)
I think this report, and the study authors, do a good job of keeping the headline message of reassurace but also not dismissing the very many young people who are - for all sorts of reasons incl post-covid syndromes struggling right now. It's been a tough year and a half+
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Aug 28, 2021
Dear #epitwitter and kids #MaskMandates Twitter,

Please look at this 👇graph of covid transmission risk amongst 15,000 kids within bubbles, and tell me:

*What age group of children were mandated to wear masks at school/pre-school😷?* Image
Looking at the data in this graph, which age group of children in this study were mandated to wear masks at school or pre-school?
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