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

At 7 and 9 they're getting a bit old to need snacks and screens brought anywhere.

They behaved very well and did their parents credit. It was a very long day andI was surprised to see Charlotte also at the service in Windsor. I thought she would have been handed over to a nanny at that stage.

Perhaps she was worried she’d play up if she didn’t! I wonder if that technique would work on my DC!

He’d play up I meant!

My 2 are very similar in age to Louis and Charlotte. My older one would have talked the whole time (did while she was watching on TV) and the younger one was climbing around the sitting room.

Both go to church where there is a kids' club. DH doesn't seem to expect much better manners from them and neither do my in-laws so it's tough.

But different in your living room I think…

Definitely agree with this... it's all training.

my sister and I went to mass every week and sat there without snacks or playing up. I remember counting down hymn, collect, reading, psalm, gospel, hymn, sermon, hymn communion, hymn... and zoning out completely in the boring bits.

Our kids sometimes go to church but expect there to be a colouring table at the back and Sunday school half way through. They have never been trained to sit through something like that for over an hour.

Our kids are otherwise generally better behaved than my sister and I were at home though

Mum and dad are working right now

granny funeral you behave they are old enough to know the score

WTF

what is it with these fawning threads?

What sycophantic nonsense OP, they are royal, they have a nanny they are trained to be like this.

😂
This

There seem to be a few re KM etc

Maybe PR working overtime

We have no idea if they are wonderful parents or not. They are probably good enough. But they have a lot of help and a lot of money. I would expect most children of their ages to behave themselves at an important occasion, though -as they did.

All this ‘trained to be like this’, as if we’ll-behaved children is down to witchcraft and hocus-locus, beyond the realms of mere mortals.

It’s so bizarre.

That's so strange. How do you know what goes on in their house. You are making judgment. We know nothing about theM really. I'm sure they have had nannies right from the start

Yes, the only possible reason people can have well-behaved children is if they have a nanny. 😑

An army of nannies always helps especially if they're paid for by the taxpayers
Are you on their PR team OP?

I agree with others that I'd be a much better parent if I could focus more on parenting and not worry about housework, cooking, laundry etc. without fail the times I lose my patience or get frustrated is when I don't have time to do the actual parenting bit as I know I need to go and make dinner or bring the washing in from the line.

I’m now picturing what the funeral would have been like if the children were given an ipad to keep them busy 😬

Screen time and constant snacks are a relatively new thing. Screens didn't exist beyond 10/15 years ago in terms of ipads/tablets/being able to view on mobile phones. So if kids are kept quiet from practically a baby by being bribed with a Screen, then yes they will act up if they know it'll result in a Screen to shut them up. Same with snacks.

My kids learnt how to eat in a restaurant by being taught table manners and what is/is not OK in a restaurant environment. Shutting them up via Screens is counter productive in the long run.

Shutting them up via Screens is counter productive in the long run.

It’s definitely Not OK to say stuff like this on here, though.

We were getting my older one "trained" for behaving in restaurants then Covid came along meaning we didn't go to restaurants for a fair old chunk of time. We still rarely go out unless with friends, swapping the Covid risk for cost of living as the excuse/reason not to go "out".

Assembly also didn't happen for a while because of bubbles meaning a lot less sitting still and quiet expected at school as well.

We tend to minimise use of screens (including TV) as it works a lot better when really needed but deploy the tablet for A&E trips (2 broken bones this summer) and for the younger one, his sister's violin lesson.

My parents would have shut me up with a book...

Yes I'm sure they're great but I'm more impressed by all the other wonderful parents out there who don't have nannys, servants, chefs, etc.

@plainjane40

Why have you posted the same thread five times?

Your first thread is quite antagonistic. You must have realised these sort of threads are going to stir up quite a lot of hatred.

Because she’s their new head of PR, taking the temperature of MN.