Yes, this whole thing is taking on a life of it’s own just as Kelly predicted. The comment sections in the various articles are now psycho-analyzing the relationship between Kelly and his wife/children.
The Daily Mail actually even interviewed the grandparents back in Ohio. They said that the reason Marion felt so comfortable marching into the room was that they often Skype with the children. So Marion heard voices and assumed it was her grandparents wanting to visit with her. Perfectly reasonable assumption on her part!
While it is pretty humorous that both children were able to find their way into the room during a live interview, I am sure Kelly will factor that possibility into his future choice of interview locations. This was not really a home “office” --it was a bedroom. You can see when Marion plops herself down next to the books, she sinks into what is obviously a mattress. So betting his office or some other space at the university will be in the backdrop for his next interview.
I also assumed that the woman was a nanny because she looked so young but I was concerned about the baby being in an old-fashioned walker. Those walkers were not safe 30 years ago and were taken off the market after several babies were severely injured or possibly even killed in falls down staircases.
I read the comments before viewing the video, so I didn’t get to test myself on what assumptions I would have made.
I also LOVED how the first child just swaggered into the room. So cute. And little sibling wasn’t taking any chances that big sis was going to get all the quality Daddy time.
I’m not a fan of walkers and didn’t use them but there is a good chance the prof’s home doesn’t have stairs. A lot of people live in one floor, stairless spaces.
I work from home and use video skyping for meetings. My H has unintentionally walked behind me (in view of the camera) in various states of undress. Yesterday I was talking to a colleague and H was in another room and kept yelling “What did you say?” when he heard me talking.
Luckily no one is recording/rebroadcasting these incidents!
When I used to work at home, my kids were told they couldn’t speak to me unless they could see my face so they would know I wasn’t speaking into a headphone, but they were a bit older than those kids on the video.
This is one of Chinese feng shui thing - we like to position the desk so we are facing the door, this way we could see who walks in the room (and also wouldn’t be stabbed in the back by an assassin).
I’m white and DW is Asian/American. We both watched the video without sound and both assumed she was a nanny, perhaps because we had nannies when our kids were young. Or maybe we’re closet racists.
Here’s a link to yet another that was posted by “Arthur’s Angel” on twitter in response to the Kelly video – absolutely hilarious. One gets taken upstairs while another comes running down and starts launching stuffed animals during live interview. Love this dad!
It was an adorable video. In retrospect, if I had been the wife in that situation, my body language would have been EXACTLY the same because I hate the thought of being on camera and I’d be horrified at the thought that my spouse might be professionally embarrassed by my mistake.
I haven’t thought about the exersaucer in years. Loved that thing almost as much as DS.
That’s very funny (I “liked” it) but the reality for us was that having live in nannies was far more economical than traditional daycare or either of us going the stay at home route. As I recall we paid our first nanny $400/month plus room and board. At the time we were living in an area that was a “net exporter” of nannies and many were willing to work closer to home for a lower wage.
oldfort, I like to sit facing the door, too. I am so doing this in my new office! If coworkers make noise about that, I now know what to tell them - Feng Shui, folks!
