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Bedtime fail: Daughter interrupts the prime minister of New Zealand’s at-home livestream

By on November 10, 2021

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was livestreaming about important public health revisions to Covid-19 restrictions when she was interrupted by her three-year old toddler who was supposed to be in bed.  She said,  “mummy”?

“It’s bedtime, darling, pop back to bed. I’ll come and see you in a second. I’ll come and see you in a minute,”  the 41-year-old Kiwi mother says, turning away from Facebook livestream. “No,” replies Neve, her three-year-old daughter who had decided everything, even the affairs of state, could wait.

“Sorry everybody,” Ardern says, on return to the livestream. “That was a bed-time fail wasn’t it?” She said that her mother was present that evening, and would be assisting her daughter to bed.

“I thought here’s a moment I’ll do a Facebook Live. It will be nice and safe. Does anyone else have kids escape like three, four times after bedtime?”

“Okay, where were we?” Ardern tried to continue. The little voice returns: “What’s taking so long?”

“I’m sorry, darling, it is taking so long.”

“Okay. I’m sorry, everyone. I’m going to just go and put Neve back to bed. Because this is well past her bedtime. Thanks for joining me.”

As funny as it sounds, many mothers around the word who, like Jacinta Arderm, have been juggling parenting and livestreaming since the pandemic, can relate.

 

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