How much screen time do you think William and Kate's children have?

[TigerWhiskers]

Just curious really
How much screen time per week or day do you think they are allowed?
Also how many out of school classes and clubs do you think they do?
How much down time do you think they have?

I reckon they have lots of down time but quite old fashioned and structured. E.g. reading, always someone to play with them, drawing, and when in the country, lots of access to nature, dogs, horse riding etc. So I expect they only have a set amount of screen time because they are super scheduled.

I'm interested if the little one maybe has some neurodivergence and whether their parenting and routines allow for that. I couldnt say to my autistic boy "right we have to attend this event in 10 minutes" he simply wouldn't and would have to be literally dragged and physically scared into it which wouldn't be acceptably parenting today!

They have very little screentime and lots and lots of great extra curriculum activities. They attend fantastic schools, exiciting holidays and eat well. They always have a caring well-trained adult at hand.
They are never left looked after by a 16 yo babysitter, wait 16 hours in A/E or spend a day of grocery shopping, cleaning and laundry.

Are you always so nasty about a very young child ?

Please explain what you think is 'wrong' with him.

If I had a nanny for each child, they'd get no screen time at all lol. I'd just pay someone else to organise wholesome and educational activities all day long 😆

Fucking hell that's what I was going to say.🤨

Jesus. What an awful thing to say about a child. He’s no different than any other 6 yo boy the country over who would rather be doing anything else I expect than watching soldier on horses parade.

I don't think it is Louis that has something wrong with him. Perhaps you should look at yourself?

I'd love to know what this expert diagnosis of "something wrong" is based on and what this "something wrong" might be.

I completely agree. To me he is just an exuberant, carefree and high spirited young boy. I have three young children and my youngest son is the same age and would be far more bored and non compliant at such a tedious official event than Louis!

Awful way to speak about any child.

Also yeah, I dread to think what people would say about my five year old boy if I tried to take him to so many boring events under constant public scrutiny. Do people expect celebrities children to be robots?

I’ll have the comment deleted if the consensus is it’s not appropriate.

Yes, this.

I don’t know but there is something wrong
with the way some people think and post

How on earth could it possibly be appropriate?

Even if he does have some neuro divergence (which none of us can judge either way), it's a horrible way to speak about him.

Have reported my own post. I really didn’t think people would get so worked up about a comment about a child they don’t know.

Two things : I think Prince Louis is perfectly normal (i remember my lad wanting the jump in puddles and sing songs happily on days out - he is just doing the same only in a more upmarket place)

secondly : it’s in appropriate in a neurodiverse world to say there is ‘something wrong’ if (by chance) there was a learning difference

Minimal I imagine DH has some very well-off relatives, and their kids have none on school days and an hour or 2 at the weekends (they are teens)
I hate the way Louis has been labelled as the naughty one, he's just 6 and easily bored! If he is ND, so what he seems like a lovely little boy. Ditto Charlotte being the bossy one, poor kids.

Well it doesn’t really matter if we know the child or not, it’s not really the thing to say about any child, is it?

From what I see on telly, the little Waleses are lovely and v. normal. They are excellently behaved at public events and show just the right amount of personality at those. They seem to know each other well, enjoy each other's company as much as siblings can and care about each other. Since Louis is the youngest, it's natural that his older siblings would boss him a bit and that he might be comparatively more wiggly.

As for screen time: not much
If the pupils at my prep school are any indication (and my school plays matches against theirs) not much and most of that is supervised/directed.

Ours come into school for 8:15-ish and stay until at least 4:15pm, some until 6pm for activities (e.g. swimming, tennis, board games, mythology, history, bird watching). They occasionally use screens in lessons for learning reasons: e.g. White Rose, Dr. Frost or times tables rock stars for maths, Linguascope for French, Atom for reasoning.

The school supplies the device and it is controlled and monitored by the school and set up with stringent restrictions. If a pupil tries to look at anything out of bounds, a message goes to IT who contacts the head of year or similar.

Many pupils, especially in years 6, 7, 8 have their own phones or pads or similar but they are not allowed to carry them in school and if they do bring them in (so they can call home if they are boarding) must hand them into Matrons' for safe keeping. At boarding, after dinner, they play informal sport (football, cricket, dodgeball, table tennis or similar) , watch films, make biscuits, read or draw.

But you seem keen to ‘diagnose’ from the comfort of your armchair and keyboard. Maybe you need to go and examine why you would write such a thing about a child.

So you felt it okay to pass judgement on a child you don't know, but expected others not to disagree because they also don't know the child?

I don’t know but there’s something wrong with that youngest one.

What an awful thing to say, what’s wrong with you?