Katie Price, a model parent?

Her words say a lot

Nov 30, 2021

When it comes to working out what someone is really saying, their use of pronouns reveals a lot. Pronouns show the ownership, or lack of it, of the statements being put across.

Celebrity Katie Price, gave a brilliant demonstration of this when she was talking to a parenting podcast.

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Here are her words, spot the pronouns:

I hate the dads. The Priory no1. and The Priority no2.

That's all I'm saying. My relationship with them are non-existent. I'm blocked from with one of the dads (sic), and it was always lawyers, lawyers.

And now I refuse to do lawyers lawyers. One dad there is absolutely no contact with and he tries to control me all the time.

And the other dad, I can't bear him, but we talk for the kids. But I will say never ever use the kids as a pawn. Even if you hate the other parent, don't let your kids know and just do what's best for the kids.

You want a happy home when they are with you and a happy home when they go to them. Always think of the kids, they want their mum and they want their dad. Let your kids see both parents.

Never use the kids ever, even if you hate the other half.

What have you spotted?

Let’s break it down

In the first section, where Katie is talking about her feelings for her children’s dads, she is very personal with here pronouns.

I hate the dads. The Priory no1. and The Priority no2.

That's all I'm saying. My relationship with them are non-existent. I'm blocked from with one of the dads (sic), and it was always lawyers, lawyers.

And now I refuse to do lawyers lawyers. One dad there is absolutely no contact with and he tries to control me all the time.

And the other dad, I can't bear him, but we talk for the kids. But I will say never ever use the kids as a pawn.

Here she is very much taking ownership of what she says

I hate the dads

My relationship with them are non-existent

I can’t bear him

I refuse to do lawyers

There is even a “we” pronoun used which shows there is unity in this action.

We talk for the kids.

But

It breaks down at that point. The personal touch disappears, replaced by much more distant words.

When Katie moves on from her feelings and actions towards the dads, she starts giving parenting advice. In this section she doesn’t say “I” once, she doesn’t refer to “my” children, it is all “you” and “your”.

Never ever use the kids as a pawn. Even if you hate the other parent, don't let your kids know and just do what's best for the kids.

You want a happy home when they are with you and a happy home when they go to them. Always think of the kids, they want their mum and they want their dad. Let your kids see both parents.

Never use the kids ever, even if you hate the other half.

She could have expressed this all personally with ownership. She could have said “I never use my kids as pawns” and “I don’t let my kids know”, and “I just do what’s best for my kids”.

Compared to the first part, her words are more distant here. It’s not clear if she’s speaking from experience, if this is truthfully how Katie parents, or if it is some ideal that she has never reached.

Conclusion

It’s possible that Katie wanted to give advice to “you” and phrased her words accordingly.

One this is for sure, in this piece, Katie doesn’t once say how she parents her own kids and how she personally copes with co-parenting. You have to ask why that is.

But I must thank her for the wonderful example of pronoun use.

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