Kate Ferdinand, the mother, describes her crowded family life as “special, crazy, lovely and long.”
The character of the reality television, known for his time only on the way to Eslex, shares two young children with his wife, former footballer Rio Ferdinand, and is a stepmother for his three teenage children.
He easily admits that their family, especially during meals, is a wonderful, yet profoundly special environment.
“Chaos!” She says with a laugh. “There are five children and very tall that I can’t even tell you, you can’t even hear yourself. There is too much stimulation,” he said.
“The link between the kids is amazing.”
In 2019, Ferdinand married the former British captain and Manchester United and became a stepfather for his three children Lorenz, now 19, Tate, 17 and Tia, 14, from his first marriage to Rebecca Ellison, who died in 2015 at the age of 34.
Kate also has two children – Kerry, four -year -old and Shaye, two -year -old with Rio, and podcast, founded the mixed families to “celebrate”.
The two older sons are both footballers for Brighton and Hove Albion and live away from home, but Ferdinand says they both come home regularly and he tries to put the whole family together for meals.
He explains: “Sitting on the table and dinner is a huge thing in our house – I feel so wide to talk.” “This is a place where everything comes out, where you are reconnecting after the day, but that doesn’t happen every night, because obviously big boys are no longer living in the house because they play football,” he said.
“We are a very sporty family and our kids have a lot of clubs, so it’s almost impossible to get there every night.”
Ferdinand is not alone in finding this issue for all for dinner – new Hellofresh research is about one in three (31.8 %) parents who say that the entertainment of their children and club programs is difficult, it is difficult to share dinner together in the week, and once the term school is more than 62 percent.
But, like Ferdinand, more than half of parents (55 %) agree that shared meals are useful for children’s development and are a great opportunity to re -connect the family. So Ferdinand has collaborated with Hellofresh to encourage families to leave at least one night a week to sit for a family meal.
“We eat on the table when we are all at home – this is part of our family’s routine,” says Ferdinand.
“Don’t make a mistake. The kids want to run away, but I try to be quite strong with it. They have to ask them to leave the table, and they have to raise their plate. It’s completely funny, only two, and he actually raises his plate and puts it down.
“We all love it because we all talk at the dinner table – all are very busy, but we are connected again. And that is mental, and food everywhere, drinks are poured.
Fortunately, Ferdinandz has an extended dining table, as he also says seven family members, says that boys sometimes bring their girlfriends for dinner and meals can be 16-16.
The kit does the cooking kit, but if it is requested, it will help all families, including Rio.
“The kids are great,” he says. “I have to ask for help, but when I ask me, they help me,” he said.
“Rio is very good in the meat seasoning – this is a little cooperation. Honestly, Rio is engraved for me and then pretends to have made food.
“But if Rio’s house is, he also cooks. Everyone gets involved.”
Even older boys come together with cooking, and their honor step -out says, “Tate is only 17 years old, and she loves cooking. She really thinks better than me. And this is a little discussion in our house – I told me to cook for a few times, and I will let you know.”
He says that while Tate cooks for himself, he still doesn’t cook a meal for the whole family. “When you cook for seven people, everything changes,” he says. “When the values go up, it gets a little more difficult!”
But he hopes that he will read food for the whole tribe one day and says, “As a parent, you always want to do everything for your kids, and this is only in recent years that I have realized that you really had to let them go wrong and try and take a step back.
“That’s what I have been fighting before, but now I have done a little more than that, and that’s a lot of paid because you can only progress them in many aspects of your life.”
But how does Ferdinand himself flourish with such a crowded life as a spouse, mother and podcast?
When all the kids are out and once a peaceful house, he says, “Don’t make a mistake, it’s a summer holiday now and I’m glad they have gone out so that I can make a few hours.”
He agrees that he sometimes gets a little relaxed, and says, “Completely – I think any parent who does not say this may be fiber.”
He sometimes succeeds in drowning a little of “my time”-though he may rise in the sunrise to do so.
He explains, “When the holiday is summer, it’s not a real show.” “But usually when the kids are at school and I don’t work, I prioritize things like trying to get some of me-I got upstairs and took the dog for a walk at 6.45 in the morning to take a minute.
“Because sometimes I feel you have to give yourself 10 minutes, even if you just walk around the block, just think before the start of the day. It’s not a half -day in the spa like years and years ago, before the kids, but that is just about finding those moments.”
Kate Ferdinand is a school ambassador for the recipe box delivery service Hell And it shows that prioritizing only one meal per week has improved his family’s well -being.
