I wonder how Harry's children will feel when they read his book as adults. What will Archie and Lilibet think and feel about the fact that a bunch of their pictures have been published in a Netflix film that has already been seen by several million people?
I also wonder how Harry will approach his children when they have had many fights and maybe even a punch-up as children? What kind of language will he use when one of the children in a conflict feels more guilty than the other?
And in the period of growing up, when children are more rebellious and have more complex language, in what way will he tell them if he does not agree with certain behavior and does not want them to behave that way? If, as a father, he ever gets angry with them and sets limits, how will he feel when they tell him later that this does not make them feel accepted and loved enough? How will he react if one of his children says that he feels less loved and accepted than the others?
Positive parenting teaches us that when we set boundaries, we are telling our child that we always love them, but that we disagree with their behavior and therefore do not allow it. We stop a child from misbehaving, even if he has to cry a little because of it. We also tell the child how we feel, for example, 'I love you and I am afraid when you behave like that, I am afraid that it will harm you in the future and I do not allow it'-we can later explain why we think it will be harmful etc.
I wonder whether Harry really knows the approaches to parenting that help to build a child's healthy self-esteem and solid mental health. His two children are still young, and he has included them in a book that also talks about drug use, killing, and conquering women. Has Harry asked himself how the children will feel when they find out later that they are included in a book?
What if one of the children, as an adult, gets put on William's side, and blames Harry for never having met his cousins, or maybe something else. His children will never think the same way as he does, and they will behave differently. I think Harry needs more knowledge about healthy self-esteem and healthy positive parenting-which William and Kate are already using and which experts have written about. That is much more difficult, and there is nothing in the book to say that he has had any further training in this area so that he can work differently with his children. Healthy parenting involves a lot more personal growth, self-reflection than just writing superficial, one-sided memoirs from perspectives that differ....