Dad and baby have a wholesome couch conversation.

Shanieke Pryor/Facebook

Babbling baby and his father go viral for wholesome couch conversation

'Really? I thought the same thing.'

 

Brooke Sjoberg

Internet Culture

Posted on Jun 6, 2019   Updated on May 20, 2021, 11:06 am CDT

A Clarksville, Tennessee, father indulged his toddler’s babbling in a video that went viral this week. Their conversation was anything but one-sided.

The video, posted to Facebook by the child’s mother Shanieke Pryor on June 4, shows her son having a full conversation with his father, Deztin Pryor, while watching television.

“He needs his own show,”  Shanieke Pryor wrote in her original post.

The video was reposted to Twitter by @_11Remember_. Users tweeted about Deztin Pryor’s interaction with his son and praised him for his parenting style and attention paid to his son.

“Building social skills at a young age can make your life so much better and easier,” @FordFocus96 said. “I had to learn this stuff embarrassingly late in my development.”

https://twitter.com/_11Remember_/status/1136087637914247170

https://twitter.com/MsCharlieVmore/status/1136656544077099008

Among the tweets praising Pryor for taking his child seriously, some lamented the lack of this kind of interaction with their own fathers.

“This makes me sad cuz bro i never had a fun chat with my dad like that cuz he never took interest in me,” one user said.

https://twitter.com/Jmike_JR/status/1136124574360166400

Other users turned Pryor and his son into memes.

The Daily Dot reached out to Shanieke and Deztin Pryor for comment.

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*First Published: Jun 6, 2019, 4:15 pm CDT