To think Kate and Wills are wonderful parents

[plainjane40]

I’ve just been reading this article and am frankly in awe. How do you bring children up to behave so impeccably and be so confident and beautifully mannered? Asking for a friend I’m sure many of us (myself included) in this situation would be resorting to screen time and snacks after half an hour. Kate and Wills seem like such wonderful, happy, hands on parents and their children are a credit to them.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11231317/Prince-William-Kate-Middleton-hands-parents-says-parenting-expert.html

I don't understand the shock of two children behaving! My 10 year old behaves, he always has done - it's not particularly difficult to parent your children to behave especially in public. I'm always astounded when I see misbehaving kids in restaurants having iPads thrust in their faces to get them to behave.

Haven’t read the article but they have a nanny for goodness sake! Anyone would be a better parent with a nanny

Oh please, they behaved as expected at the funeral. It doesn’t make Catherine & William amazing parents!

If kids are used to their parents "resorting to screens and snacks" to bribe them to be quiet "after half an hour" then yes of course they will expect that. Unless they've got behavioural difficulties as obviously that means additional challenges. But for most kids if you teach them to behave well they will.

As for the nannies, well yes they do have nannies but plenty of us have kids who behave that well and dont have nannies!

Sorry I think parents that have to go out to work full time and still parent their children, cook, clean and manage bills on a budget, and still have lovely well mannered children, are wonderful parents. I have huge respect for them. None at all for an over privileged pair of tax funded royals .....nice as they seem. Compared to most of us their lives are so easy and stress free.

Yes it's ridiculous. Kate gets praised for wearing the same dress twice, opening her own car door etc.

Posh, private school kids are generally more well behaved. They are brought to more high brow events through school & with their parents. Thousands of kids accross the U. K have never set foot in a library even & don't know the etiquette... Posh kids have ooodle of cultural capital & experiences heaped upon them. They don't feel out of place in grand surroundings..

How could we possibly know?

Terrified children are often the most compliant. I'm not saying that's what's happening here, but we'll behaved children doesn't always = great parents.

Most children this age would behave in this context it would be hugely intimidating. I have no grasp of how you think they’d have snacks and screen time in the middle of the queens funeral.

I find it shocking that so many people seem surprised at them being well behaved and are trying to explain it with nannies, private schools and housekeepers.
My children go to a bog standard primary and the vast majority of them from reception age sit nicely and quietly through boring church services.

I would imagine Carole & Michael were strict, "firm but fair" types too & they also help out alot with the children.

Because they have limitless money.

If someone started a thread on here saying that good parenting is only the preserve of the posh, wealthy and privileged, they’d quite rightly get ripped to shreds.

And yet, that’s exactly what so many people on this are saying.

Newsflash: being a good parent is - literally - nothing to do with money. Nothing.

It's the daily fail and they hate Harry and Meghan. They have an agenda, and that's to boost Kate and William and to blow up the rift.

easy To not resort to screens when you don’t have to sort melas and do the washing up after and the laundry I’m sure

Who gives a crap?

Plus the kids have so much space to play safely outdoors. It's not just W&K's kids, all wealthy kids ate hugely privileged & have all the advantages normal folk don't. It's not an even playing field & never will be.

Gosh, Kate’s PR team are working overtime with all these gushing threads.

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Yep, my state educated dc would have been more than capable of sitting still and quiet for 2-3 hours at that age. And that's all that they had to do essentially. I honestly don't know what the fuss is about.

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Agree with the majority. I too would be a paragon of virtue in their position.

Our state educated DC were super well behaved at those ages don’t think their behaviour particularly notable unless you are someone who lets your kids run feral and thinks that behaviour is therefore unusual.

Mildjy interested to see what the teen years will bring. That much harder ….

What are you on about? They were at a funeral. I’m sure they misbehave at home like every other kid.

most kids that age I know can sit through a church service or the like and behave themselves. Nothing unusual there. And it’s nothing to do with doing the laundry when you get home from a funeral

I think some folks are not thinking through what they are writing. Being a good parent is fuck all tp do with money and everything to do with the individual and no one has any clues about will and Kate’s parenting as we can’t see them at home. Of course the kids behaved during the funeral. They literally had to sit there and keep quiet and In such intimidating surroundings nearly all not kids this age would in that setting.

who brings snacks and screens to a funeral fgs 😂