A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support.
Kate Middleton
Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.
My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life.
Having a child, particularly your first child, is such a life-changing moment. Nothing can really prepare you for that.
Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.
When I was growing up, I was very lucky. My family was the most important thing to me. They provided me with somewhere safe to grow and learn, and I know I was fortunate not to have been confronted by serious adversity at a young age.
Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.
I hope we will be able to have a happy family ourselves.
We have seen that two heads are better than one when dealing with a mental health problem.
Together with open conversations and greater understanding, we can ensure that attitudes for mental health change and children receive the support they deserve.
No, I had the Levis guy on my wall, not a picture of William, sorry.
Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All too often, lives and families can be shattered by it.
Change the way we all talk to each other about our mental health.
I think there is a real art to walkabouts.
No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.
By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made.
We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.
Parents, teachers, and other school staff need the tools to help these young people early in their lives. And the earlier, the better. It is proven that early action prevents problems later in life.
The challenge that so many people have is not knowing how to take that first step of reaching out to another person for help.
I think as any mother would be she was absolutely over the moon. And actually we had quite an awkward situation because I knew and I knew that William had asked my father but I didn't know if my mother knew.
I'm still very much Kate.
No parent would fail to call the doctor if their child developed a fever.
Around a third of parents still worry that they will look like a bad mother or father if their child has a mental health problem. Parenting is hard enough without letting prejudices stop us from asking for the help we need for ourselves and our children.
Around-the-clock support is crucial for children receiving palliative care. They and their families often need help every hour of every day, both in hospices and at home.
I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight.
We need to help young people and their parents understand that it's not a sign of weakness to ask for help.
I am sure you will agree that all children deserve time, attention, and love from the adults in their lives. These basic qualities are so much more valuable than the always-changing material and social concerns that can seem so important to young people.
It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.
All of us know someone who has been through difficult emotional times, and we know how hard it can be to see a way forward.
The Queen was really thrilled that we'd had a little girl, and when we came back here to Kensington, she was one of her first visitors.
Parenting is tough.
I find doing speeches nerve wrecking.
There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family.
Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.
I have learned that delivering the best possible palliative care to children is vital, providing children and their families with a place of support, care and enhancement at a time of great need is simply life-changing.
I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
William and I feel that every child deserves to be supported through difficult times in their lives.
Every time Wimbledon is on, I am thinking, 'Yes, I could do the same and get out the racket.' Sadly, not the same results.
George loves the T Rex because it's the noisiest and the scariest.
When I first visited the Hospice in Milton, I had a pre-conceived idea as to what to expect. Far from being a clinical, depressing place for sick children, it was a home. Most importantly, it was a family home, a happy place of stability, support and care. It was a place of fun.
A child who has overcome challenges with proper emotional support will emerge stronger.
Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.
With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still young and can have the bright future they deserve.
First-class delivery of children's palliative care is life-changing. When families are confronted with the shattering news that their children have a life-limiting condition, their world can fall apart.
We hope to encourage George and Charlotte to speak about their feelings, and to give them the tools and sensitivity to be supportive peers to their friends as they get older.
Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.
There's no one quite like William - I bet he's really kind. You can just tell by looking at him.
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
