How is this "cool"?

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How is crouching down to talk to your kids "cool"? Isn't that just what people do (if they are physically able to crouch down)!

I know AIBU to be reading this shit rag but I wanted to see the MM letters.

I'm not impressed that Kate crouches down to speak to her children, more that she can do it whilst wearing those heels and that skirt and still look so bloody elegant.

As for it being 'cool'? It really isn't.

Agreed. I would have thought this was totally normal.

Side note: I am wildly impressed by KM's ability in that photo to balance on spindly heels with a wriggly kid on her knee. I definitely couldn't do that.

Haha crosspost @ILoveBray! It would take an awful lot of pilates for me to get that kind of core strength after two kids, never mind three!

I think Kate does it because when you’ve got cameras on you and a misbehaving or uncooperative child it’s easier to get their eye contact and to keep your voice down

My 1 year old tried to climb onto my knee while I was in a crouched position earlier and I very nearly landed on top of her! I wasn't even in heels.

FreiasBathtub haha snap!

Didn’t Diana start this when she crouched down to speak to someone in a wheelchair? Old news.

Inspired by William and Kate’s technique? It’s not their technique, it has existed since kids have existed, you want to talk to a child you either stretch their leg so so they’re up at your level or you bend your own legs so you’re down a time their level.

Anne Hathaway is an idiot.

Didn’t Diana start this

😂😂😂

No

People knew their legs bent before the royals showed them.

Even if I could do this (unlikely), i definitely couldn't get up again.

i think it nice as she gets down to their level didnt Diana used to do the same when William and Edward were little, the saddest royal thing i ever saw was prince Charles around 9 years old waiting for the queen his mom to come off a train and shaking hands with her no hug no affection i think the current royals are much more loving parents than previous ones

Pretty sure supernanny started this "cool" parenting technique

Have people really never seen anyone but the royals do this? How do you talk to your own children? I’m completely baffled by some of these posts.

Maybe it's cool for the royals who have pathological knee deficiency but us non-royals have been kneeling since Eve told Cain not to be a naughty boy!

Daily mail will print anything about the royals and slap any old headline on it

Most people bend over to talk to children, so they are still above and over them. Crouching is fairly new, it was taught in child-minding courses to bring you to eye level with the child.

My nan (born in the 1930s) always bent down at the knees because she refused to have her bum sticking up in the air! She didn't want to look like an old farmer's wife bathing a pig in a tin bath - her words not mine!

People knew their legs bent before the royals showed them.
I didn't. I'm completely blown away!!! Both legs do it 😮. Can't stop doing it now!

@RedForShort careful - don't over do it or you'll be needing new ones. 4 bends a day is enough.

that's quite funny
I thought they gave out that advice with your first bounty pack?!

ILoveMaxiBondi
It's not the crouching, it's the doing it in huge heels (and holding another kid).

I don't often talk to my kids like this any more though as they are older now (7 and 10). It's definitely more for under 5s I'd say.

She didn't want to look like an old farmer's wife bathing a pig in a tin bath

😂

Supernannny didn’t invent it either.

I follow a few American parenting blogs and so on. Some of the stuff they come out with is so alien to me - I think perhaps the cultural parenting style there is more authoritarian so some things may seem different to them which is normal here.

It's not the crouching, it's the doing it in huge heels (and holding another kid).

Yes that’s a skill, definitely, but anne Hathaway and some on this thread are taking about ten actual crouching as a technique.