--- title: Professor Calms Crying Baby in Class description: Professor calms down the baby daughter of a student who started crying canonical: https://time.com/3858595/professor-baby-crying/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-14T15:09:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:47:36.533Z og:title: Professor Soothes Baby During Class, Keeps Teaching Like Nothing Happened og:description: Professor calms down the baby daughter of a student who started crying og:url: https://time.com/3858595/professor-baby-crying/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Professor Soothes Baby During Class, Keeps Teaching Like Nothing Happened twitter:description: Professor calms down the baby daughter of a student who started crying twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Hero Professor Soothes Crying Baby During Class, Keeps Teaching Like Nothing Happened ## Video: Baby Prince George's First Royal Duty: An Adorable Playdate [Watch (HLS stream): Baby Prince George's First Royal Duty: An Adorable Playdate](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ZpNahEVl.m3u8) (1:12)  _Published 2014-04-09. In his first adorable act of public duty, baby Prince George joined his parents and several other families for a group playdate in New Zealand Wednesday._  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer May 14, 2015 3:09 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer May 14, 2015 3:09 PM UTC When a student’s baby boy started crying in class, the professor picked up the child, soothed it and continued his lecture on organizational behavior with the babe in his arms. A photo of this hero professor Sydney Engelberg, a grandfather of five who teaches at Hebrew University, was uploaded to Facebook by his daughter Sarit Fishbaine, with the message “That’s what I call “organizational behavior”!” Since it was first posted on May 11, it has racked up nearly 50,000 “likes,” 4,400 shares and an influx of “love letters,” his wife Fredi Siskind Engelberg told [Yahoo’s Parenting section](https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/simple-photo-sparks-important-parenting-118876378077.html). ### See 11 Adorable Babies Swimming Underwater  Zoe, 5 months Seth Casteel  Michael G., 12 months Seth Casteel  Zelda Mae, 7 months Seth Casteel  Emerson, 7 months Seth Casteel  Adeline, 10 months Seth Casteel  Bailey, 14 months Seth Casteel  Colton, 11 months Seth Casteel  Warren M., 11 months Seth Casteel  Khyleigh, 9 months Seth Casteel  Michael R., 4.5 months Seth Casteel  Valentina, 9 months Seth Casteel ### See the Funniest and Weirdest Baby Photos  Shot for TIME, 2015 Evan Kafka for TIME  Shot for TIME, 2015 Photo-illustration by Evan Kafka for TIME  Shot for TIME, 2015 Photo-illustration by Evan Kafka for TIME  Shot for TIME, 2015 Photo-illustration by Evan Kafka for TIME  Personal work, 2009 Evan Kafka—Getty Images  Shot for Huggies, 2011 Evan Kafka  Personal work, 2009 Evan Kafka  Personal work, 2009 Evan Kafka—Getty Images  Personal work, 2009 Photo-illustration by Evan Kafka—Getty Images  Personal work, 2011 Evan Kafka—Getty Images  Personal work, 2009 Evan Kafka—Getty Images  Personal work, 2009 Evan Kafka—Getty Images  ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3858595/professor-baby-crying/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3858595/professor-baby-crying/"},"headline":"Hero Professor Soothes Crying Baby During Class, Keeps Teaching Like Nothing Happened","datePublished":"2015-05-14T15:09:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:47:36.533Z","description":"A photo of the sweet moment is going viral","url":"https://time.com/3858595/professor-baby-crying/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. 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