Kate Middleton has spoken about starting to deal with the situations as a mom after struggling like other mothers.
A spokesperson close to the Duchess of Cambridge told Fabulous, “People assume that it all comes naturally to Kate, but she has taken the same approach to parenting that she does with everything in life – she works jolly hard.”
“It took her a long time to find her feet as a royal and a mother, but all the research has paid off. At the outset, she took a leaf out of Princess Diana’s book. She resolved to talk to as many people as she could, as much as she could, and to build truly open and warm human relationships.’’
‘’At the end of the day you are raising little human beings, not robots. And because Kate comes from a place of positivity and love, that has shaped the incredibly strong relationships she has with her children. But if anyone thinks it has come easily, they’ve another think coming!”
Kate has revealed on Giovanna Fletcher’s Happy Mum, Happy Baby podcast that she had an amazing granny who dedicated a lot of time to them and she is inspired by her own happy childhood.
She recalled: “I had an amazing granny who devoted a lot of time to us. Playing with us, doing arts and crafts and going to the greenhouse to do gardening, and cooking with us. I try and incorporate a lot of the experiences that she gave us at the time into the experiences that I give my children now.”
“There are also the environments that you spend time in as well: a happy home, a safe environment,” she added.
“As children, we spent a lot of time outside and it’s something I’m really passionate about. I think it’s so great for physical and mental wellbeing and laying those foundations.
It’s such a great environment to actually spend time in, building those quality relationships without the distractions of ‘I’ve got to cook’ and ‘I’ve got to do this’. And actually, it’s so simple. I’ve got this one photo of Charlotte smelling a bluebell.
It’s moments like that which mean so much to me as a parent.”
“It’s the simple things that really make a difference,” she said.
“It’s spending quality time with your children. It’s not whether you’ve done every single drop-off and every single pick-up. But actually, it’s those quality moments that you spend with your child where you are properly listening to them, properly understanding what they feel and if things are going wrong, really taking time to think: ‘How, as a mother, am I feeling? Am I actually making the situation worse for my child, because this is bringing up all sorts of things I feel, rather than just focusing on them and how they might be reacting or responding to certain situations?’’
“I had a very happy childhood. It was great fun, I’m very lucky. I’ve come from a very strong family my parents were hugely dedicated to us.
I really appreciate now as a parent how much they sacrificed for us. I was very keen on the sport they came to every sports match and they’d be the ones on the sideline shouting, and we’d always have our family holidays together. But I think the things that really resonate with me most are the simple things.
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“I see that now with my own children, life now is so busy, so distracting and actually sometimes the simple things like watching a fire on a really rainy day provide such enjoyment.”
“It’s a constant challenge – you hear it time and time again from moms, even moms who aren’t necessarily working and aren’t pulled in the directions of having to juggle work life and family life and always sort of questioning your own decisions and your own judgement and things like that, and I think that starts from the moment you have a baby!”
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