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A few words about our chosen charity #Place2Be

 Leo, my (almost 5 yrs old) asked me yesterday: "Mummy, what is a Place2Be ? " He's heard the name floating around as we're raising money for this charity, through some events and also through running the Berlin marathon.  It's a charity that's located in schools, to support children's mental health, right? But that went over Leo's head, obviously, so he moved on. I went to him, and opened a conversation about it. The "You know when you sometimes feel/want/don't want something? Well, this thing Ima tell you about helps kids with that". So, I told him it's a place that helps children that feel very worried, sad, with tricky problems that are hard to fix, to become happy again. That means that a special 'Teacher-person' will always be in the school, in a special room, and all that person will do is not phonics, maths, history, P.E. etc, but help children feel very safe, very important, very heard, and learn how to fix so many