Harry and Meghan #98 Haz & Megz threw a toddler's strop. Will their lying ever stop?

[Just_me1954]

Thinking just like us.

 

[WordSalad]

This is your bench
where you'll witness great joy
Our families are dust.
Who's next to destroy?

This is my father
he's old and he's frail
But I never see him
he's too pale and stale
He paid for my college
he paid for my teeth
But now all I give him
is plenty of grief

 

[Bubblesdahling]

So original, sure HW!

 

[Wightgirl]

So in terms of the box ticking, this might qualify for rhe "children's productions" that they claimed their production company or the foundation or both would create? Please God forbid that this turns into some ridiculous woke cartoony kiddo series or she gets invited onto Sesame street (nah - they'd have to pay her and PBS don't have that sort of budget).

The sugars are already suggesting Sesame Street

Perez Hilton on IG . Most of the comments are negative. Seems trashing your family on national tv is not appreciated after all.

 

[LyraBalaqua]

I wonder if this brilliant Netflix and Spotify producer, author extraordinaire and all round Woke gob on legs would have managed all of this from the Montecito mansion without marrying the posh ,dimwit Prince?*

*Tongue firmly in cheek!

 

[Murphy Brown]

She has capitalised for so long on the fact that Americans don't understand the monarchy. Now it's backfiring, because they don't understand it was different titles they agreed not to use.

 

[Pno]

This made me so sad….I’ve lost friends and family to narcissists and the pain never goes away, well, unless the narcissist does.

 

[Murphy Brown]

Wow, I see that Harry has the red Sith light sabre there and William has the Jedi one.
#MaytheFourth

 

[Chita]

Good comments under this tweet.

 

[Asshats]

Even if her book was any good, it’ll never be as good as ‘Kitchen Disco’, the best children’s book of all time.

 

[holden9]

This one made me cackle

 

[NorthernValkyrie]

I googled the book earlier, what comes up as the top link? Orcadaily.

I can only imagine what my old university lecturers who specialised in poetry would make of this. I think she'd be advised to write only in prose.
All you tattlers are making me so proud of your poetic abilities! Gins (or preferred tibble) all round!

Nothing about this, from the title to the excerpt, says "children's book" to me. What's with the "our son"? Surely third person or first person talking as a parent or the child?

A poem HFW wrote for hubby which which became "a story" at a children's reading level....what is she trying to say about Haz's reading ability??? Or is it based at HFW's ability level?

Also, we have all spied her bio right? Glad to see she only refers to being DoSussex on the front cover for retail purposes. How's that feminism going for you?

 

[Ireckon]

I’ve done more looking into The Bench, and I have issues with it as someone who has studied children’s literature and earned a Master’s degree in library science.

1) Not every book is for every child, that’s fine. HOWEVER, you cannot publicize a book saying that you hope it’s inclusive and resonant with every family, no matter their makeup, and have it be only for fathers and sons. Are foster parents going to be depicted? What about moms who have to fill the role of both mom and dad? Are female children depicted at all? (I haven’t seen all the illustrations). Market the book for what it is- a racially inclusive Father and Son book.

2) There are so many books of much higher caliber that get much less attention. MM has NOT reinvented the wheel here. In fact, she is flooding the market with her celebrity puff piece, preventing authors who have actually spent years and years perfecting their work from getting noticed.

3) One of the crucial aspects for a successful children’s book is either uproarious entertainment/humor, or for the child to emotionally connect. They need to be provided with “windows, mirrors and doors,” opportunities to see themselves reflected, see others unlike themselves and learn about it, and step through those “learning doors.” (Yes that’s a 2 cent explanation of a more complex academic concept!). MM hasn’t done that. Children won’t connect to this. Ok, a 1 pg illustration of a parent coming home from deployment/training (talk about gender stereotypes, would’ve subverted those myself but OK)... nope, not enough. There’s just nothing to grab onto. What a vanity piece.

She should have written a personal dedication to her own father inside the cover.
She is supposed to have written this when Archie was 3 months old. And that is what she’s supposed to be basing her experience on ... Harry being a great father to Archie ... bloody cheek!

 

[sterling]

I just went for a coffee in the park and met a friend who is from a South American country.

She was telling me how terrible the current situation is in Peru and Venezuela. There is terrible poverty caused by the pandemic, problems with vaccination programs and high numbers of deaths. Vaccines are coming from China and Russia.

My friend felt sure that many parts of South America will soon be communist controlled with Russia as their puppet masters.

Surely the Americans should be far more worried about what is actually going on in South America rather than anything done by our royal family. Distractions, distractions......

No unfortunately. Having issues with people illegally coming over from South America. Rather than deal with anything rather than our problems

 

[Eveningdusk]

is it normal for the book to be marked down in the pre-order phase? It’s listed on UK Amazon as £9.99. link below, hope it works!

Amazon product

 

[sterling]

I don't even know who she is?

Sorry if someone told you Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, Queen of Tejano. Fusion of Mexican and US music.

 

[Sunlifeover50]

Nothing they seem to do isn’t completely hypocritical now. This book is just a joke coming from MM the family destroyer. Aside from anything else it sounds tit.

 

[Vanelope]

I’ve done more looking into The Bench, and I have issues with it as someone who has studied children’s literature and earned a Master’s degree in library science.

1) Not every book is for every child, that’s fine. HOWEVER, you cannot publicize a book saying that you hope it’s inclusive and resonant with every family, no matter their makeup, and have it be only for fathers and sons. Are foster parents going to be depicted? What about moms who have to fill the role of both mom and dad? Are female children depicted at all? (I haven’t seen all the illustrations). Market the book for what it is- a racially inclusive Father and Son book.

2) There are so many books of much higher caliber that get much less attention. MM has NOT reinvented the wheel here. In fact, she is flooding the market with her celebrity puff piece, preventing authors who have actually spent years and years perfecting their work from getting noticed.

3) One of the crucial aspects for a successful children’s book is either uproarious entertainment/humor, or for the child to emotionally connect. They need to be provided with “windows, mirrors and doors,” opportunities to see themselves reflected, see others unlike themselves and learn about it, and step through those “learning doors.” (Yes that’s a 2 cent explanation of a more complex academic concept!). MM hasn’t done that. Children won’t connect to this. Ok, a 1 pg illustration of a parent coming home from deployment/training (talk about gender stereotypes, would’ve subverted those myself but OK)... nope, not enough. There’s just nothing to grab onto. What a vanity piece.

Excellently put. Thank you. There are so many celebrity kids books that are putting other talented authors out of the running because they have such a platform. David Walliams, the Mcfly boys are a couple I can think of.

Thinking just like us.

That bump is high for post baby isn’t it

 

[buflesse]

Anyone else find it kind of gross that she's depicted Hazno as a soldier coming back from deployment when he's not been involved in the military for ages???

 

[Vanelope]

She’s also casting herself as a military spouse - which is nonsense