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Prince Louis’ Home Alone moment: Social media users joke about what antics royal might get up to | Daily Mail Online

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The Queen‘s cheeky great-grandson Prince Louis stole the hearts of the nation as he pulled faces and mucked about with his royal family at Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations this summer.

So mourners looking to have their spirits lifted even a little after the late Monarch’s death on September 8 were disappointed to learn that the Prince and Princess of Wales‘s youngest – aged four – would not be attending yesterday’s historic state funeral for his ‘Gan Gan’.

Now Twitter users are joking about what antics the little prince might have gotten up to while ‘home alone’ for the day – with many kidding that the ‘real reason’ young Louis did not go was because of a ‘high chance of chaos’. 

One meme shows the young royal’s face superimposed on the film poster of the classic 1990 movie Home Alone in place of Macaulay Culkin, while many others have shared memes of Culkin’s character Kevin running around the house after his parents accidentally forget to bring him on holiday under the caption: ‘And we now go live to Prince Louis at Buckingham Palace’.

Some imagined Louis leaving a trail of destruction at the Palace, comparing him to an appearance Mr Blobby made on ITV’s This Morning where he deliberately knocked items off the shelf.

And a spare thought was even made for the prince’s babysitter having to look after the mischief-maker.

Twitter users are joking about what antics young Prince Louis might have gotten up to while ‘home alone’ for the day yesterday – with many kidding that the ‘real reason’ the little royal did not go to the funeral was because of a ‘high chance of chaos’ 

Louis and ‘Gan Gan’ at the Platinum Jubilee: The photos that stole the hearts of the nation 

His mother the Princess of Wales earlier revealed how Louis is coping with the death of their great-grandmother the Queen.

Speaking to Australia’s Governor-General at a reception held for Commonwealth dignitaries ahead of the Queen’s funeral today, Kate explained her four-year-old is asking questions and struggling to understand.

Louis has been asking whether the family’s summertime visit to Balmoral Castle will still be as he remembers them.

‘The younger one is now asking questions like, ”do you think we can still play these games when we go to Balmoral’ and things like that, because she’s not going to be there?”’ Mr Hurley said.

The Daily Mail understands that the Prince and Princess of Wales thought ‘long and hard’ about whether their two eldest children, aged nine and seven, should join them.

But after George and Charlotte attended their great-grandfather’s memorial in March, William and Kate decided they could cope with the solemnity of the occasion. 

‘As parents they have, of course, thought long and hard about whether their children should accompany them,’ a source said. ‘Of course little Louis is too young, but they think George and Charlotte are up to it.’

Yesterday the future King, Prince George, and his sister, Princess Charlotte, remained impeccably behaved through a long and solemn day as they bid farewell to their beloved ‘Gan Gan’.

The royal siblings, great grandchildren of the Queen, were among 2,000 guests at her state funeral and were the youngest members of the royal family to follow the Queen’s coffin through Westminster Abbey.

They also attended the committal service in St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle later in the afternoon.

At Westminster Abbey, George, nine, and Princess Charlotte, seven, walked behind the Queen’s coffin as part of a solemn procession before hundreds of guests in the gothic church and watched from afar by a huge international TV audience.

As the young royals followed their great grandmother’s coffin, flanked by their parents, the Prince and Princess of Wales, Charlotte held her hands clasped in front of her, while George had his arms by his side.

The foursome walked a little behind the King, Charles, and Camilla, Queen Consort, and ahead of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

The young royals had arrived earlier in a car with Camilla and their mother, Kate.

George was dressed in a dark navy suit and black tie, while Charlotte wore a black coat dress with pleats at the back and a small silver horseshoe pinned on the front, black tights and a hat with a ribbon tied at the back.

Ahead of the service, the Princess of Wales could be seen holding Charlotte’s hand, and giving her a reassuring touch on the shoulder.

Camilla, Queen Consort, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Prince George of Wales, Catherine, Princess of Wales, Princess Charlotte of Wales and Sophie, Countess of Wessex

Catherine, Princess of Wales, Prince George and Princess Charlotte arrive at the Committal Service for Queen Elizabeth II held at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle

Camilla, Queen Consort, Prince George of Wales, Catherine, Princess of Wales and Sophie, Countess of Wessex during the state funeral

Throughout the service, the children could be seen studying their order of service at various points, with Charlotte looking around from under the brim of her hat while the mourners sang The Lord’s My Shepherd.

And her brother George was seen singing The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, Is Ended as he stood between his parents. 

At one point, Kate could be seen comforting her son with a hand on his knee.

At the end of the service, George followed closely behind his father, while Kate put a guiding hand on the back of her daughter, as the foursome got up from their seats and stood behind the coffin.

As they filed slowly out of the Abbey both children looked down at times. They later stood with their mother Kate, Meghan, Camilla and the Countess of Wessex, watching as the Queen’s coffin began its final journey from Westminster. 

Charlotte, Catherine, George and the Prince of Wales attend the Committal Service

A general view of Mounties of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police along The Mall

When the coffin reached Wellington Arch, it was transferred to the state hearse to be driven to Windsor, with senior royals watching at the side.

Charlotte clasped her mother’s hand and chatted briefly with her elder brother, gesturing at the coffin as it was carefully lifted off the gun carriage metres away.

At the committal service in Windsor, TV cameras gave only a few glances of the siblings, who remained impeccably behaved despite their young age.

Charlotte was seen exchanging a few words with the Dean of Windsor as the family left the chapel and was ushered to a waiting car.

Dad goes viral after yelling ‘POOP’ to get his son to smile in photos | Daily Mail Online

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‘You’ve mastered parenting!’ Dad goes viral after admitting he yelled out ‘POOP’ to get his young son to flash a natural smile in photos on his first day of school

A father is being praised by other parents after sharing his brilliant trick for getting his son to smile naturally in photos — and all it takes is yelling out the word ‘poop.’ 

Children’s book author Adam Perry, 37, from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, took to Twitter on September 14 to share two side-by-side photos of his preschool-age son posing for the camera on his first day of school. 

‘My son when I tell him to smile vs when I yell out “poop!”‘ he tweeted. 

Adam Perry, 37, from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, took to Twitter on September 14 to share two side-by-side photos of his preschool-age son posing for the camera

The author explained that he told him to ‘smile’ for the first picture and then yelled out ‘poop’ for the second while highlighting the difference between them

Perry’s son looks adorable in both snapshots, but his smile is slightly strained in the first image. In the second, he has a more natural open-mouth grin, and it’s all because his dad made him laugh. 

The writer’s post has gone viral and has received nearly 300,000 likes in one week. Fans have taken to the comments to applaud him for the technique, which a number of parents found to be helpful. 

‘You’ve mastered parenting,’ one person wrote, while another joked: ‘Ha! You should be a school photographer.’

Perry’s son looks adorable in both snapshots, but he has a more natural open-mouth grin in the second image, and all because his dad made him laugh

‘My son has the funniest smile when he’s trying too hard,’ the dad told GMA. ‘I learned at some point that if I just yelled out “POOP” and snapped the picture quick, it worked out way better’

‘So that’s the secret to getting a good picture,’ someone else added. 

Others were inspired to share how they get their own children to smile for pictures, and some even included photos. 

Perry opened up about the viral post in an interview with Good Morning America, saying they always take pictures on the first day of school. 

However, on that particular day, they were in a hurry and having a hard time getting a good shot. 

Perry’s post has gone viral and has received nearly 300,000 likes in one week, with many parents praising him for the brilliant trick

‘My son always has the funniest smile when he’s trying too hard,’ he explained. ‘I learned at some point that if I just yelled out “POOP” and snapped the picture quick, it always worked out way better.

‘In this case, it was a pretty dramatic comparison, so I thought I’d share it,’ added. 

Perry’s post has since gone viral on Reddit, Instagram, and Facebook. He admitted he only ‘expected five to 10 people to like it’ — and then it took off. 

‘This post must have really resonated with people, and I’ve gotten tons of messages from people that are using this trick and getting great pictures of their kids, which to me, is the best part of all this,’ he told GMA. 

Dad goes viral after yelling ‘POOP’ to get his son to smile in photos

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Gov. Ron DeSantis: ‘Latest CDC Guidance Is a Joke’

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) blasted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) latest guidance for reopening the cruise industry, a major economic driver in the Sunshine State, calling it a “joke” as the agency is only permitting ships to forgo test sailings if nearly all of the crew members and passengers are vaccinated.

“The latest guidance from @CDCgov is a joke but what else did we expect from the Biden Administration?” DeSantis asked. “Vaccine passports infringe on our liberty and don’t keep people safe. Our cruise industry is a major economic driver. Let our ships sail!”:

The latest guidance from @CDCgov is a joke but what else did we expect from the Biden Administration? Vaccine passports infringe on our liberty and don’t keep people safe. Our cruise industry is a major economic driver. Let our ships sail!https://t.co/TMrkA09QvN

— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) May 4, 2021

In April, the CDC issued the next phase of the conditional sail order for cruise ship operators, which contains a flurry of red tape, requiring the establishment of a plan and timeline for the vaccination of crew and port workers as well as simulated trial voyages to put the health requirements into practice before sailing with passengers.

The agency later clarified that cruise ships could begin to sail with passengers, without doing the simulated voyages, as early as June, but on the condition that 98 percent of the crew and 95 percent of the passengers are vaccinated for the Chinese coronavirus.

The CDC told cruise industry officials:

We acknowledge that cruising will never be a zero-risk activity and that the goal of the Framework for Conditional Sailing Order’s phased approach is to resume passenger operations in a way that mitigates the risk of COVID-19 transmission onboard cruise ships and across port communities.

“This puts cruise ships closer to open water sailing sooner,” the agency added.

Last month, DeSantis announced Florida’s lawsuit against the CDC and the federal government over their restrictions on the cruise industry — a major economic driver in the Sunshine State, which has some of the busiest ports in the world: Port Miami, Port Canaveral, and Port Everglades.

“We believe that it is time for us to vindicate the state’s rights and the rights of the state in court and also vindicate the livelihoods of the tens of thousands of Floridians who depend on this industry,” DeSantis in the April announcement, promising to “keep at this until we finally get it open.”

On Monday, DeSantis signed legislation banning the use of vaccine passports in Florida.

How to Stay Calm When Your Kids Are Driving You Crazy

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Every parenting rollercoaster flies off the rails on occasion. Like when decide to use diaper ointment as body paint, or your middle schooler slams their bedroom door hard enough to rattle all of the dishes in the kitchen. But responding in a volatile manner doesn’t help anyone. It only upsets your kid and prevents them from engaging the cognitive processes that can help them learn from their mistakes and make better choices the next time around. So how can you stay calm when your kid absolutely confounds you with their behavior to the point of making you want to explode?

Parenting expert and author Sarah Ockwell-Smith, who recently wrote How to be a Calm Parent, approaches this common struggle as one that requires time and introspection. She sees calm parenting as a practice that parents can grow into as they better understand themselves and how past experiences inform interactions with their kids. Sure, calm parents tend to exhibit specific traits, but they are characteristics that emphasize an emotional presence that extends far beyond crisis management.

To start the journey toward calmer parenting, here are three traits that calm parents develop as they start to respond to their kids more constructively.

Calm Parents Prevent Emotional Displacement

Pretty much every parent is overwhelmed, and something has to give. Unfortunately, patience tends to be one of the major casualties.

“We only have the capacity to ‘hold’ so much, whether that’s physical chores and jobs, giving headspace to things or people, and dealing with big emotions we may be feeling,” says Ockwell-Smith. “We can’t keep adding and adding stuff without an inevitable explosion when we become overfull. Then, when we are full to bursting, and our children trigger us with their behavior, we will erupt like a volcano, with a reaction that is completely over the top to the behavior our children displayed.”

It’s a defense mechanism that psychologists call emotional displacement, which is when a person takes feelings that belong in one situation and places them elsewhere. So when a parent blows up because their kid threw a ball across the room and knocked over a glass of water, their response is likely not just a reaction to their child at that moment, but a combination of many many things they’ve been holding onto, plus what’s happening in the present.

“Emotional displacement is not only scary for our children, but we often terrify ourselves when we feel so out of control,” Ockwell-Smith says. Learning to acknowledge and positively process feelings can help reduce emotional displacement by preventing feelings from bubbling over.

“This is tricky for a lot of people, as so many were raised to ‘be good’ and keep their feelings inside,” she says. People who were sent to their room or sat in when they struggled to cope with their emotions as children learned to keep their feelings bottled up from an early age because big emotions were labeled as misbehavior.

But Ockwell-Smith points out that such emotional stuffing is untenable over the long run. “Like a bottle of fizzy drink that has been shaken, it’s only possible to keep things contained for so long before they explode everywhere, making a mess of everything they touch.”

Calm Parents Recognize Their Triggers

Sometimes the impetus for getting upset isn’t suppressing emotions but encountering a behavior or situation that we are sensitive to due to past experiences. Unresolved emotional wounds can subconsciously elicit defense mechanisms or overload a person’s emotional capacity. Because at some point in time, their brain was encouraged to go into self-protection mode in the face of stimuli that is perceived as frightening or dangerous.

It’s even possible for triggers to develop from experiences that a person doesn’t see as traumatic or abusive. “Even if we think we had a happy childhood, there will have been things that were done to us, said to us, or said about us when we were in earshot that we have assimilated and that have grown to form a part of who we are today,” she says.

“We may grow unaware of these things. However, when we have children, they can — and often do — trigger us because of our own childhood experiences,” Ockwell-Smith continues. “We will often find ourselves in a situation with our children when we feel irrationally angry, struggle to stay calm, and often over-react when it comes to discipline because in that moment, we have stepped back into the shoes of our child self and we’re reacting in the way our parent or carer did.”

For instance, parents who were expected to keep their bedroom clean enough to pass a military inspection when they were kids might feel anger rush to the surface when their own children leave dirty clothes lying around. This is especially true if their failure to meet tidiness standards was met with harsh discipline methods. The intense shame that was cultivated in childhood would manifest as parental anger down the road.

Awareness that this is happening can be incredibly freeing because it normalizes the struggle for parents and hopefully lessens feelings of guilt or shame when they have a hard time remaining calm. What might otherwise be construed as a static character flaw can instead be viewed within the context of personal healing. There’s also hope in the idea that while our childhood shapes who we become as adults, it doesn’t entirely dictate our future.

“Rather than using our own upbringing as an excuse for our behavior in the present, we can use it to motivate us to understand ourselves better and to grow emotionally so that we can be better for our children,” Ockwell-Smith says. “We can end the cycle with them.”

Calm Parents Aren’t Perfectionists

Every parent is going to screw up and yell at their kid. And those who are trying to do better will probably feel bad about it. But Ockwell-Smith is very open that even she regularly has her moments. So don’t assume that other parents are totally nailing this parenting thing simply because you’ve never seen them yell at their kids.

“However calm and zen and together you think somebody is, behind closed doors there will be times that they are completely the opposite of what you imagine them to be,” she says. “I like to aim for getting it ‘right’ about 50% to 70% of the time and allowing myself the grace of ‘failing’ the remainder of the time, safe in the knowledge that even when I screw up, I can apologize, learn from it, and move on.”

Those apologies are essential because they allow parents and kids to grow together even in the wake of a blowup. But apologizing can be difficult at first because it runs counter to how parents were treated when they were kids. For many parents, apologies from adults were few and far between as they were growing up, Ockwell-Smith says.

Habits that feel alien aren’t impossible to adopt, but they do take time. Taking a beat provides an opportunity to gain composure and reflect on both the present feelings and question why they’re present.

Embracing calm parenting as an incremental process of improvement and letting go of self-imposed pressure to figure everything out immediately can prevent parents from making rash decisions they’ll regret later. “It’s a path you will need to tread for the rest of your life,” Ockwell-Smith says. “The tough moments don’t mean you’re failing or not good enough. That’s just life. Keep going, and don’t throw in the towel because you’re having a bad few days.”