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

Have stacks of cash, staff and non neuro diverse children over the age of 6.

You really think it’s super impressive that ultra wealthy people with no real job or responsibility and several servants plus nannies have managed to raise a child that can sit through a funeral service at age 9? It would be more remarkable if they hadn’t managed it.

I don’t think it’s that hard without all that though, a younger dc yes but many dc can sit through things at that age

I agree it helps to make parenting much easier all round however

Well no, but of course it helps. They’re unlikely ever to be so shattered after work that they just give in to a paddy so they can get a few jobs done before trying to get some sleep. They’re not ever going to have to sit the kids in front of the telly to try to work from home. They don’t have the kids in long hours wraparound care so you only get to speak to them a couple of hours a day.

So yes, shockingly having adults whose entire job is to support and teach your child would make it easier to raise them the way you wanted to.

That’s not what I think of it as - more that it’s ridiculous that op thinks they should be praised for being ‘good parents’ when they’re literally just doing the normal parenting things but with 10x more help and less stress than all of us. When many of us do the exact same with no help and much more stress. Like they’re not ‘great parents.’ They’re super privileged people who have managed (with plenty of help) to raise children who are capable of normal behaviour. Which we literally all do. It’s not impressive or remarkable.

Having sat through many a St George's Day and Remembrance Day services with Scouting I can tell you that the vast majority of kids age 7 & 9 are perfectly capable of sitting quietly through long (and possibly boring to them) services. Probably comes from practicing in school assemblies almost every day.

They were good, but nothing I wouldn't expect from most kids that age.

@pilates Huh? This is the only thread I’ve posted!

And I can assure you I’m not their PR - I wish!

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My daughter at her ages would of sat quietly throughout as well. She's just more older headed and I've raised her without the help of nannies & staff. But I do like Kate & William and the kids are cute.

They are lucky enough (I assume!) to have children without behavioural issues, and lots of money and resources to help them bring them up.

Exactly!

Zombie thread!

LOL I'm sure they are great parents but I very much doubt they are their children's main caregivers. 😄

It is a very old thread

It was a long time ago because DS is now 24, and I had a nanny so I could work, but he would have been fine in public at a formal occasion from age seven. He went to nice restaurants from a few months old, and even in France where kids are definitely expected to behave well, he never kicked off. Fed delicious food and in nice surroundings, DS chuckled and was happy to be admired by every old lady at Sunday lunch. Not saying that he wouldn't have preferred charging around the soft play but he wasn't offered the option all the time. He was as happy as he would have been at McDonalds, and we did both.

My sister had her first teaching placement at a primary academy, Y4, in a school reknowned for rigorous behavioural standards.

I worked in a service manning multiple schools, and tried to tell her that not all schools/children were like that.

It took her a while, but eventually she conceded that she was talking bollocks!

My nephew is 5 and he is well behaved and polite. He can sit through a 2hr church service with minimal fidgeting.

I'd be more in awe if they were badly behaved given all the help they have and well isnt that why they don't bring Louis most of the time so it cant be seen that he is just being a normal kid.

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I'm sure Kate loses her shit sometimes like we all do! You do realise what you see is what they want you to see? I'm not saying they don't genuinely seem like nice people, but they're very aware of the cameras I'm sure.

Is this a wind-up? Are you seriously basing your appraisal of their parenting skills on how they are portrayed in the Daily Fail who are the most sycophantic, arse-licking right-wing royalists of all media?

I think it's to compliment all the 'Meghan is Satan' threads going on at the moment 😆😜🫣

I don’t think shoving your kids in the public eye for money is good parenting whether you are royal or the beckhams. Decent actors etc kids have their kids faces blocked out and rarely talk about them.

I don't think they are wonderful parents, they push their kids into the public eye. I know they don't have much option, but it can be harmful to children, that level of scrutiny from a young age.

I don't really think they push their kids into the public eye. We barely see them.

In the past 8 months, we have seen Louis 3 times and George and Charlotte, 4 times. They're actually a lot less exposed to the media than other royal children around Europe.

It's actually interesting seeing people say that they're parading their children when years ago William used to get criticised for protecting George's privacy too much and that the RF belongs to the public

They roll them out at these events don’t they? To secure their own financial future. Not much different to the Beckhams etc except they are posh.