{"id":489302,"date":"2025-10-10T21:16:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/489302\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T21:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:16:14","slug":"kate-middleton-explains-a-house-rule-no-phones-for-the-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/489302\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Middleton Explains a House Rule: No Phones for the Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-dropcap\"><strong>Kate Middleton<\/strong> has written an impassioned essay warning that smartphones and computers are a source of \u201cconstant distraction,\u201d a plague that interrupts family life and threatens to make the next generation \u201cthe most isolated in history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Princess of Wales\u2014who shares children <strong>Prince George, Princess Charlotte,<\/strong> and <strong>Prince Louis<\/strong> with husband <strong>Prince William<\/strong>\u2014added that devices can prevent parents from fully engaging with their children, \u201cwithdrawing the basic form of love that human connection requires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Prince and Princess of Wales have a strict no phone policy for Prince George Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis...\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eNxvmU cfBbTk responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1499739080.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Prince and Princess of Wales have a strict no phone policy for Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, pictured at Trooping the Colour in 2023<\/p>\n<p>Chris Jackson\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The essay, written in collaboration with Professor <strong>Robert Waldinger<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/photos\/2022\/12\/all-of-princess-kates-looks-from-the-boston-tour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from Harvard Medical School<\/a>, was published Thursday on the website of the <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/centreforearlychildhood.org\/news-insights\/guest-essays\/the-power-of-human-connection-in-a-distracted-world\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/centreforearlychildhood.org\/news-insights\/guest-essays\/the-power-of-human-connection-in-a-distracted-world\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/centreforearlychildhood.org\/news-insights\/guest-essays\/the-power-of-human-connection-in-a-distracted-world\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood<\/a>. Children&#8217;s mental health and wellbeing have become a pillar of Kate\u2019s royal work as she champions the importance of early childhood development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">But this is more than just an intellectual exercise for the Princess of Wales. Prince William recently revealed that none of their children is allowed a smart phone, as they encourage quality, screen-free family time at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The princess explains the rationale further in her new essay. \u201cWhen we check our phones during conversations, scroll through social media during family dinners, or respond to e-mails while playing with our children, we&#8217;re not just being distracted we are withdrawing the basic form of love that human connection requires,\u201d she writes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kate Middleton has written an impassioned essay warning that smartphones and computers are a source of \u201cconstant distraction,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,533,1761,2832,532,1762,2831,7710,519,448,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-489302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-kate-middleton","12":"tag-prince-george","13":"tag-prince-of-wales","14":"tag-prince-william","15":"tag-princess-charlotte","16":"tag-princess-of-wales","17":"tag-royal-families","18":"tag-royal-family","19":"tag-royals","20":"tag-uk-royal-family","21":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115351950653725685","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489302","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=489302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}