Hilarious! Work-from-home dads joined by kids on live BBC interview.

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Anonymous wrote:The mom's mannerisms are very "Korean."

Korean here and I agree. Very much so.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought it was hilarious until I got a weird vibe from the dad. Instead of laughing it off, he looked angry. I hope he didn't beat his wife afterwards...that's the vibe I got.

What kind of lives do you people lead? He laughed at least once, and at the end just looked like he was trying to hold it together.

This video isn't what makes me sad/concerned. What makes me sad/concerned is that so many viewers apparently are being beaten by their partners that they assume everyone does it.

WTF?

It's precisely his reaction of pushing the kid away coupled with the mom's fearful reaction that is making people wonder if he is abusive or at least a yeller. That doesn't mean we ourselves are abuse victims...it just means the video makes you wonder about him based on his own actions along with his wife's. Geez.

His mom's "fearful" reaction is her saying, "oh no! My partner is speaking ON THE BBC and our kids are crashing the party!!!"

My DH is the most easy-going guy in the world, and I would go apeshit if our kids interrupted him while he was speaking on national television.

And if I were speaking on national television, I too would try to push my kid out of the frame. My goodness, did he shove her aside? Smack her? no, he used his arm to move her back with no harm to the child whatsoever.

You people are crazy, seriously.

This

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I've seen lots of crazy people's heads exploding over this video as they scream "abuse!" because 1) the dad pushed the girl back from the camera (clutch your pearls) and 2) the mom dragged the girl out of the room.

I agree they are batshit insane but do find their visceral interpretation interesting.

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Whoever is criticizing the dad is insane. The guy deserves an Academy Award. AND, I think the BBC and and American network should give him a paid consulting contract. I would tune in just to watch him.

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Ok, an Emmy.

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Along with the rest of the internet-connected world I loved this video. I occasionally do punditry and have done live radio from home with small kids (never TV, although my husband has.) I barricade myself in a bedroom and basically ignore anything short of the fire alarm.

Not sure if this has been said already, I give the BBC a lot of credit as well as the family here - once when my now 13yo was a baby he started wailing, despite my absolute desperate efforts, while I was doing an NPR show. The host and the producer were really impatient and hostile about it.

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Anonymous wrote:Let's be honest, she's either a nanny or a mail order bride.

Except he is living in Korea as a professor, surrounded by a ton of Korean women. Again, he lives in Korea. It's been reported it's his wife, a yoga teacher.

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Anonymous wrote:Along with the rest of the internet-connected world I loved this video. I occasionally do punditry and have done live radio from home with small kids (never TV, although my husband has.) I barricade myself in a bedroom and basically ignore anything short of the fire alarm.

Not sure if this has been said already, I give the BBC a lot of credit as well as the family here - once when my now 13yo was a baby he started wailing, despite my absolute desperate efforts, while I was doing an NPR show. The host and the producer were really impatient and hostile about it.

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In other thread was something I don't know that has been discussed here--the fact that the wife was crawling around on the floor as evidence that she was panicked/subservient/fearful of her DH.

Actually, I think she was crawling because she was trying to be out of the camera range.

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Anonymous wrote:In other thread was something I don't know that has been discussed here--the fact that the wife was crawling around on the floor as evidence that she was panicked/subservient/fearful of her DH.

Actually, I think she was crawling because she was trying to be out of the camera range.

+1 A BBC person weighed in on Twitter and said that the system they use for these interviews does not show the interviewee what is happening. That is, the guy on tape didn't know his kids were in the room until he was told, and the wife thought that if she could get low enough, she'd be out of camera range.

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Anonymous wrote:In other thread was something I don't know that has been discussed here--the fact that the wife was crawling around on the floor as evidence that she was panicked/subservient/fearful of her DH.

That was just stupid. And occasionally racist.

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Anonymous wrote:The mom's mannerisms are very "Korean."

Korean here and I agree. Very much so.

Like what, in particular (not being snarky, genuinely curious here)?

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Maybe she was staying down low in the floor to try and hide the fact her pants weren't pulled up all the way lol.

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I'm guessing that some of you criticizing the parents haven't tried to act professional at home before. I am not doing live TV but do plenty of videoconferences from home and while I try to minimize distractions I have had to keep talking through a barking dog, ringing doorbell, and DH walking across the room to give me a power cord. No kid issues thank goodness. I thought this was hilarious and can easily see this happening.

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I feel so sorry for the mom-I just hope most people didn't catch the pants thing.

Still crack up every time I see the video.