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

@Nono22972 they are in the public eye far more than william and Harry were at that young age.

Why has this really old thread been resurrected?

seems to happen a lot lately.

to be fair, its been a busy couple of years for big royal events, I am sure now we will go back to just seeing a rare taken by their mum photo.

twilightcafe · 22/09/2022 08:45
I'd be a 'wonderful parent' if I had millions in the bank and staff to do the grunt work.
YABU”

Quite.

We don't know what they are like as parents.

Nanny Mariah

The vast majority of kids are well behaved and perfectly able to sit still . They don’t need a private education to teach them good manners.

My children attended their grandfather's funeral at 7 and grandmother's funeral at 8. This included long wakes with lots of family and friends they barely knew. They were exceptional too. They were also sad and fully engaged in the process and wanted to behave properly to do their grandparents justice. We had a pretty rough day at home the day after.

I don't think William and Kates life has enough similarities to mine for me to get any useful tips from them. I want to know how you manage to be a good parent when you have no one who can take your children to give you a break, a full time job that needs extra hours and that you need to pay the mortgage and a grieving husband who lost both parents in 18 months. I'm not saying their life is easy - you couldn't pay me enough - but I'd be an excellent mum if I had staff.

It's about the same.

Sandringham at Christmas, plus Trooping the Colour (balcony only when small, move to carriage when eldest is 7ish). Plus Jubilees and royal weddings, plus the starting school pix and other celebration day pix (birthdays, family Christmas card etc). And maybe one or twice a year a charity event they all go to.

They also used to release ski-holiday pix of W&H but I think that's been dropped (maybe there's less intrusion on to holidays these days?)

What feels different is that we've also had a funeral and a coronation, so more formal events than typical - but I'm pretty sure that had they occurred when W&H were still boys, they would have been there - as they were for their mother when only a few years older than the Wales offspring are now

Agree with this