So are you guys telling me kids don’t have walkers anymore? What do they have instead? My kids LIVED in walkers. I thought it was an invention on par with disposable diapers.
I thought the wife stayed low because she thought she could stay out of camera view by doing so.
My kids had a super-saucer
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Mine too! That link is such a nice memory.
My kids were walking independently and we never owned a walker. If I were the mom, I’d try to keep off camera too. Her reaction was understandable and she was FAST!
If I had any inkling that it was going to go viral, I’d definitely want to minimize my on-air time, too. I wouldn’t have been camera ready. 
I had a home office when my kiddos were babies. No on-camera interviews for me, but being in the “office” was a privilege and they knew to play quietly at their mini-desks (play-phone and coloring books). I have really sweet memories that I cherish now that they’re grown and gone.
The oldest took a tumble in a walker over the one step in our house. Bought the Exersaucer for his sister.
Maybe fodder for another thread… there are other things I did differently between babies. The second kid didn’t get pull-ups, water wings or training wheels. Yet she stayed dry at night and learned to swim and ride a bike before preschool.
So a lot of people who don’t think of themselves as the type who would stereotype people stereotyped people. Hmm…
I did think she looked very young (in the picture of the two of them she looks at least 10 years younger than him ) so that probably added to the assumption that she wasn’t his wife. I saw it at work with a native Korean speaker who said the little girl was shouting “mommy” so that cleared that up for me. In any event if you watch closely you can see her pants falling down. She clearly was using the bathroom and the kids escaped. So given her state you can see why she indeed seemed panicked.
Well, many men do marry younger women, for sure. Barron’s mother is 24 years younger than his father! 
At the risk of stereotyping, I do find many Korean woman remain very youthful looking.
Asians have good skin.
I admit it: I made that assumption about her being the nanny because I was unconsciously being racist. I am apparently one of those people who doesn’t think I’m racist, but – there it is. Mea culpa.
I also didn’t realize he was an expert on Korea speaking from South Korea; I just watched the video with no sound. That might have changed my assumption. Maybe.
So Yeah, I’m admitting it.
I briefly thought it might be nanny because I initially assumed the mom worked outside the home. Funny I guess my initial bias was to think the mom was a professional woman. Maybe she does work outside the home. Don’t know. And not that it matters, but I must have misheard as I initially thought they were in England, not Korea.
Very interesting how so many, especially women, immediately assumed that she was the nanny because she’s Asian. Makes you think, doesn’t it.
I loved the video. The way that little girl marched into Dad’s office so confidently, you can’t help but smile.
I had walkers for all my girls and loved them. I understand the potential danger but the danger is in parents not paying attention to making their homes kid-safe. The stationary ones available now that my grandkids have used/use are just not the same.
We had in home childcare as I worked outside the home, so yes, my projection was that I initially thought the Mom worked outside the home too. Was not thinking about race. Our in home caregiver put DS #2 in a walker and went to get some diapers. He had a bad accident and was hospitalized. Still gives me shivers.
Let me be clear, I ONLY thought she might be the nanny because of her body language. Not her age or her race.
No walkers, no “exersaucers” (what an oxymoron), and no pacifiers in this house. The idea of them just bothered me.
With the ExerSaucers the child spins around with their legs to play with the various interactive toys attached to the circular tray. So for children who are not yet walking or crawling I assume it helps build leg strength and coordination.
The safety plus is that the saucer itself does not move – the child does.
I assumed this was a big TV break for the professor, which was why he didn’t just greet the child naturally rather than doing a backhanded go away push. (And a less nervous, more experienced commentator would probably have done something like pick the kid up and continue the conversation…more experience would probably also mean installation of a lock on the door.)
Likewise, I read the mother’s response as being aware that this was a Big Deal Interview, wanting to get the kids out of the way asap, and her hoping that she was off camera by being lower to the ground. Since my family doesn’t run in nanny circles, it never occurred to me that she would be anyone other than a spouse.
Walkers were out of fashion even back when my kids were little, but the kids loved them and we took appropriate safety precautions. Sometimes we parked the walker on the thick carpeting where it couldn’t move so the baby could be part of their older sibs play time without having to worry about her eating the lego pieces. We also didn’t put them in the walker for hours on end.
You know this may actually have helped him with all the media attention on him.
And my son loved his exersaucer, he went nuts in it running in place and spinning around, my daughter didn’t like things like that.
I loved this part of the story as well since we and the rest of the world loves to micro analyze and armchair quarterback
“When a BBC producer asked him via Twitter about reposting the video, Kelly responded by asking, “What would that mean, please? Rebroadcasting it on BBC TV, or just here on Twitter? Is this kinda thing that goes ‘viral’ and gets weird?””