Kate Middleton posted her first ever selfie video this week in honor of Children’s Mental Health Week.
Kate recorded the video as she was exercising outside at her country home of Amner Hall to mark the beginning of patronage Place2Be‘s annual Children’s Mental Health Week. The theme this year is “Express Yourself,” putting a with the focus being on creative ways children and adults can share their thoughts and feelings.
“This year’s Children’s Mental Health Week is all about expressing yourself – about finding creative ways in which to share your thoughts, ideas and feelings. So whether that’s through photography, through art, through drama, through music or poetry – it’s finding those things that makes you feel good about yourself,” said Kate, 39. “And while this is Children’s Mental Health Week there has never been a more important time to talk about parental wellbeing and mental health too. Last year you told me just how important this was that many of us find it hard to prioritize.”
Kate concluded by stressing that focusing on mental health is particularly important amidst the coronavirus pandemic.
“This is a hugely challenging time for us all so please look after yourself too,” she said. “Find those ways in which to share your thoughts and your feelings or find someone to talk to because we really do need to be the very best versions of ourselves for the children in our care.”
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This comes after Kate opened up about the challenges of parenting during COVID-19 earlier this month.
“As parents, we have day-to-day elements of being a parent, but, I suppose, during lockdown we’ve had to take on additional roles that others in our community and lives would have helped us with,” she told a group of parents, according to People Magazine.
“Make sure everyone looks after themselves — it’s very hard to prioritize but it’s definitely needed now more than ever,” she added. “It’s important for our children that we look after ourselves too.”
CBS News reported that Kate admitted that she’s even started cutting her three young children’ hair herself during lockdown.
“I’ve become a hairdresser this lockdown, much to my children’s horror, seeing mum cutting hair,” she said. “We’ve had to become a teacher – and I think, personally, I feel pulled in so many different directions and you try your best with everything, but at the end of the day I do feel exhausted.”
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