Posted on 05/21/2019 10:06:41 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, unveiled the "Back to Nature" garden she helped design at the RHS [Royal Hospital] Chelsea Flower show this weekend.
The duchess' garden was created with a particular purpose -- to encourage children to play outside -- tying into the focus of her work on how important the early years of life are in childhood development and in setting the stage for a child's future.
"I believe that spending time outdoors when we are young can play a role in laying the foundations for children to become happy, healthy adults,” she said, speaking ahead of the garden unveiling.
The garden, designed by the duchess and award-winning landscape architects, is "a woodland setting for families and communities to come together and connect with nature," according to Kensington Palace. It includes a swing seat and a high platform tree house, inspired by a bird or animal nest and made from chestnut, with hazel, stag horn oak and larch nest cladding.
“Understanding that our brain develops to 90% of its adult size within these first five years helps crystallise how our experiences in these earliest years are so impactful, and influences who we become as individuals. What happens in our early years is vital to our being able to engage positively in school, and in work and society, and ultimately, to how we bring up our own children,” she said in a press release.
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As if anyone gives a shi...er....Dorkbama.
Cute. I hope lots of children had fun.
I’ll bet a dollar that Health and Human Services will have something to say about that swing they made out of a rope and board.
Not if the rope is made from hemp and the board is recycled.
Love this woman and how she is raising her family (and husband). She is a proud hunter, who chooses her own guns and has been seen carrying pheasants she killed at a hunt with Harry that the Usurper Meghan forbid him from attending while she was in NYC for a celeb baby shower.
Good on her!
She certainly is the prettiest of the royals.
Though I can’t see how they’re going to sustain that crown when the islamists assume power, which seems inevitable.
Where will they go?
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