A five month old baby girl can be ladylikereally Prince William.

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Am I being unreasonable to find this the most ridiculous thing to come out of Prince Williams mouth. Princess Charlotte may be a very different baby to Prince George but ladylike at 5 months old that is utter tosh.

So it is wrong to be ladylike?

Define how a baby can be lady-like.

DD was certainly built more "lady like" than her brothers with longer thinner fingers and more delicate feet. Maybe he meant that. Maybe he meant she was quieter. Who knows. He just said something a bit daft, as are most comments about every baby. No one says to the general public "dear god, he/she shits constantly and keeps throwing up! And the FARTING!"

Maybe he was stretching for a word and that's all he came up with?

If I'd had DD2 first and then someone asked me about DD1 at a similar age I too might have gone with "ladylike" without thinking about it too deeply.
Even at 5 months babies do things differently from each other.

It's just silly small talk. YABVU to try and work up some froth over such an inane point.

"Lively"= when I left this morning he was throwing duplo bricks at the dog

Ladylike just infers she's more chilled out than her DB is/was. Meh.

No I have never said stupid things about my children to the worlds press. I may say stupid things to DH but certainly watch what I say to the rest of my family and would never say stupid things to my friends about my children.
I admittedly have done stupid things in my past but actually I have learnt from my mistakes and try not to repeat them. The difference is I am not in the public eye.

What is the relevance of this passage please?

Fwiw I agree with megandmog. I don't think they have grasped that point.

"No I have never said stupid things about my children to the worlds press. I may say stupid things to DH but certainly watch what I say to the rest of my family and would never say stupid things to my friends about my children.
I admittedly have done stupid things in my past but actually I have learnt from my mistakes and try not to tepeat them. The difference is I am not in the public eye."

How do you know you haven't. Maybe there are huge swathes of people guffawing loudly as soon as you walk out of the room. I think what you just said is pretty stupid but I'm not guffawing loudly - yet.

Ego - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Margaret,_Countess_of_Snowdon this princess]] seems to have managed to be a pretty free spirit.

And competing in the Olympic Games like (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne,_Princess_Royal this one]] isn't necessarily the most "ladylike" activity.

Maybe "ladylike" wasn't the most apt word to use, but plenty of us have marvelled at the way our children's very different personalities have emerged at an extremely young age.

Bother:

Free-spirited princesses, with proper links this time:

Princess Margaret

Princess Anne

My daughter is 3 months and compared to ds1 she is very dainty and ladylike her limbs and everything are feminine and less stocky, it's not a sexist thing and obviously some people would have a sticky girl and feminine boy, it's just when you have a boy and then a girl you look for differences In them I guess. My son is the same age as george and my daughter is a little younger than Charlotte and I do understand what he means

I know what I mean but it's hard to articulate it on here, he's said the sort of thing we all say it's not offensive at all, Charlotte is a girl, she will be more feminine than George, femininity is not a negative thing to talk about when describing a baby girl it's positive and beautiful

Sounds like inane smalltalk to me.

Some people are so determined to be wound up by just about anything! I wish I had the time and brainspace to get so uppitty(sp?) about something that matters not one jot.

Move along now people. World hunger, civil unrest and small children getting shot on their doorsteps y'know.

Well said Eat.

Thank you Sparkling

Bam Thanks for calling me stupid So polite of you. Calling babies ladylike is just weird, smiley, cuddly, docile, placid, happy, sweet, cute, grumpy just a few things you could call a baby. If you know your going to be interviewed by the press you prepare yourself not difficult really. I should have written lighthearted in my thread title.

to be fair, she didn't call you stupid, just that what you said was stupid.

imagine the outrage if William had called Charlotte a grumpy baby!!!

It doesn't seem very lighthearted, just another Royal bashing thread.

I should imagine any baby (girl or boy) would seem ladylike if one was used to Prince George. He does indeed seem like a lively character.

Charlotte could be ladylike and grumpy.

I blame the palace pr, for poor preparation of HRH.