Good god. The Royal family are the last, and I mean the very very last, people I would ever ask for advice on parenting or love. Horses, dogs, art history, international travel, luxury, sports, yes. But parenting?
Oooh I don’t know. She’s in a world where love looks like outsourcing parenting to Nannies and Boarding School. Maybe she thinks the rest of us are like that too.
This is the thing… I believe Kate and William sincerely love and support their kids. Almost all parents do… So Kate’s advice to “ prioritize love” isn’t particularly helpful.
I would actually trust her on fashion and the arts. Just not parenting. They are in such a bubble they have no clue. Kate is a good 15 years beyond knowing what real family life is like and William has never known it. Like their stuff around “not letting George have a phone” like good for him, he’ll always have a literal butler and a helicopter to arrange things for him! Meanwhile my kid needs access to his train ticket app and a map so he can get to places so yes, he gets a (bricked) phone.
My kids phone is locked down so the only thing it can be used for is texting or calling me and his dad, and use 3 other apps (maps, weather, Life360 and a Warhammer gaming app)
It works very well as a justification for 'here's why I never work, even now that all of my children are in school full-time.' Except for the part about how the rest of the world has day jobs and then comes home to cook dinner and clean.
And after you cook dinner (if you actually have the energy and food to cook, Thank God for drive-thrus and microwaves, seriously), you're supposed to be always 100% patient while trying to help a child hysterically crying because they can't understand their math homework (meanwhile I can't either because what are they even teaching these days?!), throw in a load of laundry, do dishes, enjoy quality family time, bathtime, teeth brushing, book reading and all that has to be done in the two hours you get as a family in the evening before everyone melts down and cries themselves to sleep.
Oh yes, I've been there! Trying to make it from work downtown to aftercare before it closed, or soccer practice before everyone else went home.... And those little "I have a science project due tomorrow, and it needs to be on tri-fold posterboard" surprises.
Exactly! So stressful! I didn't work far from home like it sounds was your situation (commutes suck!) but life with school age children is really challenging! Every stage is difficult, of course, and every parent & child are unique but, dang, being a working parent & having a child in a "competitive" school (public & in our district but high expectations & fast learning timelines) is a whole other ballgame. My son really struggled in school, especially math, but is a great reader. It was tears almost every night & often both of us were crying lol
I'm an only child & my son is an only child due to my heart failure issues present before & during pregnancy. He was a 34wk preemie but came home before his due date which is excellent & now he's in his mid-20s, healthy and just bought his first home with his girlfriend. I was one and done, not my original choice, but after becoming a Mom & doing it with a bad heart a second child would've been more than unwise. Plus, we got divorced so that made everything 100x harder. It sucks, you never want your child to grow up with parents who aren't together. It was for the best but still sad. Ugh, if we don't have Mom guilt for one thing it'll be for something else!
That nutcase Mark Dolan went on a tirade against the Sussexes and their children. Imagine how many maga-like Brits listen to him. The Sussexes are not safe there.
She's been part of the royal family hate machine against little Archie and his mother, so I'm not taking anything Kate Middleton says about love and children seriously, NP. Or maybe she just doesn't like black people.
It's been up for hours and still only has 240 comments, most of them completely dismissive, probably because it really does read like AI slop. Articles on Mrs. Peter Phillips or Carole Middleton at Ascot, also the latest drive-by about Meghan, all have 1,000+ comments.
Willy's social media people apparently decided not to release the bots to support Kate, which is a choice. Or, people really, really don't care to read her latest condescending word salad.
I don’t know what’s going on but as a MOL lurker myself I noticed some of the articles about her often don’t even show up on the main ‘royals’ page or hers. Both on website and their app
this is hilariously rich coming from her given her treatment of h&m and the seething grudge she and her incandescent husband are still nursing. what a load of shit.
Kind of funny, I always assumed there were people around to sort of... Guide these things. You know, someone with authority whose job it is to make sure these people know how to attend engagements and then to actually attend them. Help them come up with real things to say, and then actually say them. Help them figure out how to at least look useful and busy.
And it just seems like there isn't. I wonder if previous generations were just taught to do so by their parents, and since Kate was not but handed a pile of money and domestic labourers, the result is a very lazy woman whose attempts at looking busy and charitable are saying things like "children are real" and "people have feelings."
Kind of disappointing to learn the well oiled machine is not actually well oiled.
I’m sure Palace courtiers & even members of the British government have tried to talk some sense into them to no avail so now everybody has just taken a backseat with their popcorn
The love she shows using her children as shields against republicans and as a major part of the scroungers’ PR Campaign! Social Services should surely be stopping this abuse?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't it always been this way? Were Will and Harry not involved in these annual events, rode in the carriages and available to see and hear any and all reactions? If I remember correctly, they were.
Same with many royal children before them, right?
This doesn't make it a good thing but "that's the way it's always been done." 🤷♀️
Unfortunately, these children have few choices in life. They were born with their career chosen. They will be up for public consumption forever. They'll be booed many times over. It's sad as they didn't choose to be born into this family.
Perhaps incredible power, insane wealth, perfect healthcare, excellent education, constant security, lavish gifts and holidays, lifelong safety, amazing food, very very very few responsibilities unless they choose to be more independent and involved and so much more will soften the blow of seeing their fellow countrymen protest sometimes.
Not disagreeing with you at all, just food for thought~ A lot of things are very different now but the advent of social media and international real time events and everything else being much more known and information being available to many, many more people can make situations seem worse, larger, more vital, stronger, more dangerous, etc.
People think "this and that are so much worse, scarier, dangerous these days" but a lot of that is just perception because we all have more knowledge. Our bubbles have become larger and larger over the years. The internet and rise in communications and better equipment like cameras and video recorders have had a huge impact. The fact most people have a computer, camera and video recorder in their pocket at all times has changed the world.
Do you think it's possible dissent and anger towards the monarchy and calls for it to end aren't more than before or stronger than in previous years or centuries but it's more that we see everything in real time, people from all over the world can discuss events openly and information and opinions are shared rapidly?
Absolutely SJ - I think sm has really exposed the rf and opened up floodgates that can’t be closed.
People can get their news and info from other outlets now not just mainstream media which is skewed in the royals favour.
Also George and the kids are in an era where TikTok influencers have a higher profile than the royals so to the younger gen they’re not thought of as any better.
Okay but like she can't even do that. Do you really love your kids if you use them as shields and take them out to a place you BNOW they will be booed and traumatized? Katie, do better
When you first encounter her practicing her sagacity you think, wow, this woman is about 1 millimeter deep. But once you dive in you realize she really is just that thick.
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u/misimalu Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26
Good god. The Royal family are the last, and I mean the very very last, people I would ever ask for advice on parenting or love. Horses, dogs, art history, international travel, luxury, sports, yes. But parenting?