It is not easy to balance family and work
New Zealand’s female prime minister broadcasts a national broadcast of her three-year-old daughter who steals the spotlight and asks to sleep
□Song Qingying, journalist of Chutian Metropolis Daily
What if you are busy with work, but your baby is arguing for mother? New Zealand’s female prime minister, Ardern, encountered this thorny problem: she was broadcasting a national broadcast but was interrupted by her 3-year-old daughter. She can only interrupt the live broadcast in a hurry to coax her daughter to sleep.
In recent years, politicians in more and more countries have brought their babies to work, some have been forgiven, and some have caused controversy.
New Zealand female prime minister was disturbed by her daughter on live broadcast
On the evening of November 8, New Zealand’s female Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gave a national live speech to announce the policy on changing the restrictions on the new crown epidemic.
At this time, the childish voice of 3-year-old daughter Neve came from outside the screen: “Mommy!”
Ardern turned to his daughter, smiled and said, “Baby, you should go to bed now.”
“No,” the daughter replied.
Ardern helplessly began to coax the child: “It’s time to go to bed now, be good, go back to bed. I’ll come right away, okay? Grandma will take you to bed.”
Then, Ardern faced the camera again and apologized to the audience. She said: “Has anyone encountered such a thing? When it’s time for bed, the child still slips out of bed three or four times. Fortunately, my mother is here and can help me.”
She wanted to go back to the topic: “Where did you talk?” But her daughter’s “voice-over” started again: “Why so long?”
“Sorry, baby, it’s been too long.” After soothing his daughter, Ardern apologized to the audience again, “I have to leave and get Neve back to bed because it’s been a long time since her bedtime. Thank you for participating. “
This is not the first time that Neve has “snatched the spotlight”. In June 2018, 38-year-old Ardern gave birth to Neve, becoming the world‘s first national leader to give birth to a baby during his tenure in nearly 30 years.
According to BBC reports, in September 2018, Ardern took his three-month-old Neve to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, and became the first head of state to bring his baby to the United Nations meeting. When Ardern spoke, she gave her daughter to her husband Clark Gayford to take care of her.
Japanese and Danish congresswoman was expelled from meeting with her baby
In the matter of bringing a baby, Aden and Mallard are lucky. In some other countries, politicians want to bring their babies to work, but the treatment is not so good.
According to Japan’s “Mainichi Shimbun”, in November 2017, female councillor Yuka Ogata of Kumamoto City took her 7-month-old son to a meeting of the city council and was expelled from the council.
Before the meeting began, Yuka Ogata entered and sat with her baby, but the Speaker of the House Sawada Masasaku asked her to leave. After negotiation between the two parties, Yuka Ogata entrusted the child to the care of a friend, and the dispute ended. As a result, the meeting was postponed for 40 minutes.
After the meeting, Sawada Masasaku gave Yuka Ogata a written warning, criticizing her for taking her baby to the meeting “serious problems” and demanding “not as an example and fully reflecting.”
Similar to Ogata Yuka’s experience, there is also the Danish congresswoman Met Abidegard. In 2019, Abidgard brought her 5-month-old daughter to the parliament for a meeting. The chairman of the parliament, Piyaskiasko, believed that she was “disturbing the order of the parliament” and asked her to take her child away from the parliament.
Abidgard complained on Facebook that the parliament had dealt with her unfairly. She said that the father of the child had no time to look after the child, and the child did not make any sound that day.
In this regard, many netizens expressed their understanding and support for Abidgard. However, some netizens believe that taking children to the meeting is disrespectful to the meeting.
From this point of view, how to strike a balance between family and work is a problem all over the world.
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