It’s not every day you see a toddler get emotional about a compliment. In a throwback video posted earlier last month on TikTok, Vincent Spencer shows his three-year-old son Micah sitting in a car seat while Lewis Capaldi’s “Someone You Loved” plays in the background.
Micah, who was moved by the music, grew emotional when Spencer told him, “You’re the best. Best son ever, you know that? My favorite. My best friend. You hear it?”
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Micah couldn’t help but cry as the words set in before raising his hand to brush his tears away and beaming broadly.
The TikTok video has since received more than 4 million views.
Spencer told “Good Morning America” that when the digital memory appeared on his phone once more, he felt inclined to share the “cute, heartwarming” video of his now 5-year-old kid.
He explained, “That song that was playing in the back is a song by Lewis Capaldi. But for some reason, the very first time he heard it, he teared up, and he was looking at me and telling me, ‘Dad, I love you.’ And so that song just always has struck a certain chord with him.”
Since he first posted the video, the father of one said he has received a lot of messages from individuals, even strangers, who express their admiration for it and how it has even helped them deal with past pain.
“They felt like, you know what I was saying to my son, that their fathers were speaking to them… Just seeing how the world’s kind of reacting to it is … kind of cool. It might be for a bigger purpose,” he stated.
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The 36-year-old father—a real estate agent in San Antonio, Texas—said he hopes the video will help others, particularly fellow fathers, see a different aspect of masculinity and what it means to raise a young boy.
“A lot of times, fathers … feel like we need to be super tough on our kids, whether it’s, ‘Don’t cry. Get up. Be a big boy.’ This, that and other,” said Spencer. “I feel like there’s a purpose for a balance there.”
He remarked, “With Micah being so loving and emotional, I don’t want to take that from him but just give him a balance and let him know it’s OK to express yourself — you can cry. It’s OK for men to cry. It’s OK to have emotions. It’s OK to go through things.”
“You can still instill masculinity and be in tune with your emotions, so I just think it was good to showcase that.”
