{"id":200204,"date":"2025-10-09T13:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/200204\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T13:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:27:08","slug":"the-messier-the-better-kate-enjoys-making-imaginary-cakes-with-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/200204\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The messier, the better\u2019 \u2013 Kate enjoys making imaginary cakes with children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your support helps us to tell the story<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 jEZjIj\">From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it&#8217;s investigating the financials of Elon Musk&#8217;s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, &#8216;The A Word&#8217;, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 jEZjIj\">At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 jEZjIj\">The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.<\/p>\n<p>Your support makes all the difference.Read more<\/p>\n<p>The Princess of Wales joked the \u201cmessier it is, the better the fun\u201d when she joined children playing with clouds of flour at a centre supporting families.<\/p>\n<p>Kate crouched down to help the youngsters making imaginary cakes with plasticine and flour, and chatted to mothers about her young royals at Windsor.<\/p>\n<p>The future Queen visited Home-Start <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/oxford\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford<\/a> to learn about the organisation\u2019s work supporting parents juggling work, finances and creating a loving home for their children.<\/p>\n<p>The princess spoke to sisters Mariam Namakula, 30, and Sumayya Nabatanzi, 28, from Oxford, as their combined five children ran around having fun.<\/p>\n<p>When one of the children injected Kate with a toy syringe, the princess was left with flour on the jacket of her trouser suit and she asked another child \u201cwhat are you making, are you making a cake? Delicious\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Namakula said afterwards: \u201cShe was enjoying herself with the kids and said \u2018the messier it is, the better the fun\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKate was saying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/charlotte\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte<\/a> enjoys the outdoors and doing activities, and making things and how her kids are growing up fast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe said George is 12 years old and would soon be starting secondary school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Kate published an essay highlighting the importance of creating a firm foundation for the lives of children by helping them develop \u201cstrong social and emotional skills\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She also warned about the \u201cepidemic of disconnection\u201d created by smart phones and other gadgets, and urged society to \u201cinvest in the relationships you have with each other\u201d in the piece written in collaboration with Professor Robert Waldinger, director of The Harvard Study of Adult Development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-200204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}