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A South Carolina dad of three couldn’t believe what he saw when he casually walked through his living room.
Kenzy, who did not share his full name, posted a clip on TikTok as he entered the family’s living room to find his eldest son, Koah, holding his newborn sibling on the couch.
The 32-year-old asked Koah, “What are you doing?”
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Without hesitation, Koah looks up and answers matter-of-factly: “Your job.”
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Kenzy told Newsweek that at the time, he was working from home while his wife and “college sweetheart” Ashlyn, also 32, was on maternity leave following the birth of their youngest child, Benson, who was just one week old.
When 6-year-old Koah asked if he could hold the baby, Ashlyn stepped away briefly to use the bathroom, trusting her eldest with the responsibility.
“I poked my head around the corner and saw him sitting there with the baby, so I grabbed my phone to record what I thought was a cute moment,” Kenzy said. “When I asked him what he was doing, he very confidently replied, ‘your job.’ He has a dry sense of humor, just like his dad.”
He captioned the clip: "No he didn't..."
Koah’s deadpan response had Kenzy in hysterics. “It was one of those parenting moments where you don’t expect anything, and then they say something so serious and funny at the same time," he said.
Kenzy’s clip has gone viral on TikTok, clocking up 1.9 million views. Many parents recognized the familiar dynamic of older siblings stepping into caretaker roles—sometimes proudly, sometimes prematurely.
“My son always used to say, ‘I am not a mother’ when I asked him for help,” one user wrote. “He was 6 so that was fair.”
“At first he thought about ignoring you but he chose pettiness,” another joked.
"My 7-year-old also says these exact same words whenever she helps the baby for TWO seconds so I can pee,” a third said.
Kenzy, who is also father to 2-year-old Oakley, said the response has been overwhelmingly positive and surprisingly emotional. “I didn’t expect it to resonate with so many people, but it’s been fun reading the comments and seeing how many families saw themselves in it. It especially seemed to resonate with oldest siblings who shared memories of ‘raising’ their younger siblings,” he said.
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