{"id":477821,"date":"2025-10-06T09:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T09:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/477821\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T09:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T09:28:11","slug":"why-prince-william-doesnt-let-his-kids-own-phones-and-how-hes-avoiding-parents-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/477821\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Prince William doesn\u2019t let his kids own phones and how he\u2019s avoiding parents\u2019 mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Prince of Wales has said he is trying to avoid the \u201cmistakes\u201d his parents made and wants to \u201cdo what\u2019s best for my children\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">William said his childhood \u201cfeeling of safety, security, love\u201d was cut short when his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, and his father, King Charles, separated when he was a young boy.<\/p>\n<p>His comments were made during an appearance on comic actor Eugene Levy\u2019s travel series The Reluctant Traveler on <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/apple-tv?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple TV+<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He told Levy: \u201cGetting the balance of work and family life right is really important. Because for me, the most important thing in my life is family, and everything is about the future and about if you don\u2019t start the children off now with a happy, healthy, stable home, I feel you\u2019re setting them up for a bit of a hard time and a fall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The future king appeared like a hands-on dad, describing family meals around the dinner table, taking part in the school run and how he and his wife, Kate, do not allow Prince George, 12, Princess Charlotte, 10, and seven-year-old Prince Louis <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/education\/article\/3325627\/hong-kong-seeks-limit-childrens-digital-device-use-amid-rising-myopia-rates?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">to have mobile phones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">When Levy, star of the comedy series Schitt\u2019s Creek, suggested to William that a \u201cnormal home life\u201d started with his mother, the prince replied: \u201cYes, definitely, I think it\u2019s really important that that atmosphere is created at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Prince of Wales has said he is trying to avoid the \u201cmistakes\u201d his parents made and wants&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[3543,7709,7714,7713,2830,138361,13396,533,1760,1761,7283,2832,532,1762,2831,7710,519,154360,154361,7711,7712,7859],"class_list":{"0":"post-477821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-apple-tv","9":"tag-british-royal-family","10":"tag-catherine","11":"tag-catherine-middleton","12":"tag-diana","13":"tag-eugene-levy","14":"tag-kate","15":"tag-kate-middleton","16":"tag-king-charles","17":"tag-prince-george","18":"tag-prince-louis","19":"tag-prince-of-wales","20":"tag-prince-william","21":"tag-princess-charlotte","22":"tag-princess-of-wales","23":"tag-royal-families","24":"tag-royal-family","25":"tag-schitts-creek","26":"tag-the-reluctant-traveler","27":"tag-uk-royal-family","28":"tag-william","29":"tag-windsor"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115326517505357092","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}