to be fed up and genuinely mindblown by all this Prince Louis drama??

[Ahurricaneofjacarandas]

I have a 4YO almost exactly his age... please tell me that most people don't think that his behaviour was that of a future delinquent?! I honestly don't see much problematic or out of the ordinary about his behaviour especially after hours of being made to sit still.

Some of it wasn't ideal don't get me wrong but it's absolutely in keeping with my own dd who I believe to be absolutely typically developing and on the whole becoming an incredible, mature, kind and loving little girl

Also, what's with all the ownership being on his mum to keep him toeing the line?! Are we really still that behind the times?

Is this one of those situations where people are just talking shit about him because they're jealous of the RF? Or does anyone actually think that his behaviour was especially divergent from most kids his age? I'm genuinely interested and wondering how much to worry about my own kid 🙈🤣

I find it interesting that even though we understand so much more now about child development we still only seem to be able to see the superficial behaviour and not the child beneath it

Yes covering mum's mouth like that is not ideal but I wouldn't just blindly punish it. If my child can't express that she's fed up and annoyed at me as one of the people she trusts and depe ds on most in the world then who IS she safe to express herself to? I'd far rather tolerate a bit of this and even a few 'I hate you mum!' If it meant she felt confident and validated enough in this world to express these things. If my dd did this to me I would have called her out on it but I wouldn't just have punished. I would have acknowledged that it's been a long day for her but explained that this isn't an acceptable way of telling me she's fed up and talked about more mature ways she can get my attention.

In Louis's case it was a tiny little blip on a very long weekend for him. I honestly don't believe that this is unusual behaviour for most (just turned) 4YO's. Undesirable, yes, unusual no

i think people forget how young 4 is. they also remember their own children at that rose tinted glasses.
as for the armchair diagnosing wtf

@Ahurricaneofjacarandas fine but suggesting the public might be worried about a pampered little prince having ASD but oh don't worry as he will all the professional help he needs is a bit insulting.

I think he was better behaved than a lot of 4 year olds I come across. They also handled him well.

Sorry I fail to see how it's insulting. He will have many professionals at his disposal who will know him much better and be much better equipped to support him and diagnose him than the public will ever be. If I was his parents I'd be upset and insulted that people are trying to do this at all based on a 30 second clip of him being a tiny bit challenging. Just leave the poor kid be is my point

Just leave the poor kid be is my point

yet you started the thread about him!!!

Just leave the poor kid be is my point

Wouldn't that be nice?

The trouble is, the more discussions there are like this on social media, the more likely the idea that Louis needs "professionals at his disposal" for whatever reason seems to become "the truth" and may get embedded in the public consciousness.

I'm sure the idea that his behaviour was due to anything other than being 4 didn't occur to the majority of people until these sort of discussions started and, in some cases - I'm absolutely not suggesting that this is the case with your thread, OP - there has been faux concern: "Poor Louis - people are criticising him for being badly behaved when perhaps he's got <insert diagnosis here>" just to spread rumours.

Just to give an example (not to "drag them in"), in exactly the same way, there have been posts saying "Poor Meghan and Harry - I really like them and was so disappointed that they were booed".
I don't know if they were booed or not, but posts like that help strengthen the idea that they were.

I should have proofread that first paragraph: awful English
I think it gets my ideas across though.

He wasn't best behaved at times but its nothing that doesn't happen with every other 4 year old at one point or another, mine included. Small kids have bad days too and almost no agency to do anything about it other than act out, even if they are royals.

People are dumb, they project the dislike for his parents or the institution he is part of onto him. Or they have no experience with young kids but think they know how they should act. Or they parented young kids ages ago so they forgot what's it like. Or they were much more restrictive parents and think everyone should be like that. Or they are just bored and nosey.

Or they see the same little clip , literally seconds, over and over again on social media. And it looses all context.

That it was actually seconds in hours of good behaviour.

You're right.