‘Daddy works too hard’: girl in China bursts into tears during a meet-the-parents video call at day care facility and goes viral
- Li Yanxi, 7, had been sent to a day care facility for the summer holidays and was present when the centre held a video call for parents to see the progress of their children
- On seeing her father on the screen the little girl broke down in tears and said: ‘I am concerned that he works too hard and becomes too tired’
A video of a seven-year-old girl in China who missed her father and burst into tears when seeing him on a video call at a day care facility has gone viral.
Li Yanxi, from Suzhou in Jiangsu, eastern China, had been sent to a day care centre for the summer holidays, video platform Nuan Video reported.
Last week, a teacher had organised an online video meeting to let parents meet each other and observe a class in progress. When Yanxi saw her father – wearing a safety helmet and a worker’s uniform – among other parents on the screen she became upset.
“Daddy!,” the girl called her father in a sweet-sounding voice.
Soon the girl’s eyes were filled with tears, and she told her teacher that she was missing her father and worried about him.
“Why are you missing your father? How long since you’ve seen him?,” asked her teacher in the video.
“It’s not [because I haven’t seen him for a long time],” Yanxi replied, sobbing. “I am concerned that he works too hard and becomes too tired.”
The girl said her mother is a stay-at-home mum while her father is an electrician and often works overtime.
