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We have become increasingly good at noticing when children are struggling. But prevention has to mean more than finding problems earlier. It also means noticing the strengths, skills and capacities children are developing through everyday life — including the small struggles that help them discover what they can do.
We’re delighted to see Harry Kane nominated for the 2026 Ballon d’Or — not just for his season on the pitch, but for the leadership and quiet commitment we’ve seen through our Foundation partnership.
Children are not patients-in-waiting. If we frame childhood mainly through risk, symptoms and disorder, we risk missing the bigger developmental task: helping children build psychological fitness — the capacity to regulate, recover and adapt — alongside confidence, connection and growing agency.
Nearly twenty years after our first research began, Bounce Forward is still asking the same essential question: how do we help children and the adults around them build the psychological fitness to meet life? This is the story of our journey from research partner to independent charity, through challenge and change, and into a new chapter focused on building what lasts.
What if we have become too used to locating difficulty within individual children, rather than looking with equal curiosity at the ecosystem around them? A reflection on ADHD, education, child development and why we need to develop children and the environments around them at the same time.
We cannot predict every child who will struggle or become disconnected from education, employment or training. Prevention must go beyond identifying risk: every child needs opportunities to develop psychological fitness, supported by the adults and systems around them.
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