In 2017, during a live interview on the BBC, Professor Robert Kelly was speaking about the political situation in South Korea from his home when his children burst into the room. Despite his attempts to push them away, his daughter and his baby interrupted the interview, and when his wife came in to get the children out, the older one began to cry.
This video quickly went viral on the internet, with many finding it both funny and heartwarming, showing the challenges of working from home with young children. Back then, few people thought that teleworking would become a part of their lives as of March 2020. Six years after this premonitory moment, Robert Kelly has posted these photos of how they are now to celebrate that tender interruption .
Professor Robert Kelly, a specialist in Political Science, in 2017 participated in a debate on the British BBC about the situation in South Korea from his home office when his children opened the door unexpectedly and entered, seeking the attention of his father.
Despite Kelly’s attempts to drive them away, the children persisted and the specialist apologized several times. In the end, the mother of the children also had to interrupt and she entered the room to get the children out so that the teacher could finish her intervention on the public channel. The eldest son began to cry and the woman ran out of the room on all fours, probably hoping to avoid being seen on camera.
The video of the incident spread like wildfire on the internet and became a viral phenomenon on social networks. Many viewers found the scene funny and touching, showing the challenges of working from home with young children.
This week Robert Kelly has once again remembered the moment to commemorate that funny interruption that made his family one of the most popular on the internet. In the photographs that the teacher has posted on the internet, you can see how, six years later, the children are no longer so young and have caught on.
“Here I show you the leads of-‘BBC Dad’ on its 6th anniversary of the original video. Marion had a singing performance last weekend so we got some nice family photos. Thanks again everyone who follows me after the video. My family and I are flattered by your kindness,” the professor wrote on his Twitter account.
This incident was a premonition of what a few years later was to become a new form of work-life balance. Due to the pandemic, in March 2020 teleworking was established in a large part of the planet and since then, millions of workers have assumed this way of working as another valid option in their lives. Surely more than one person has remembered the moment lived by Robert Kelly while teleworking and will have taken measures so that his family does not become the new viral phenomenon on the internet.
