Elon Musk opened up to the New York Times about being the father of his newborn son. Tesla’s CEO and co-founder of SpaceX and his girlfriend, Grimes, welcomed their first child together earlier this year.
When asked how he was going to balance parenting with his work schedule, Musk explained, “Well, the babies are just eating and shitting, you know? Right now there isn’t much I can do.”
“Grimes has a much bigger role than I do right now,” he added. “When the child grows up, there will be more paper for me.”
The Tesla CEO has six older children, one of whom died in 2002, with his ex-wife, Justine Musk. Using his previous parenting techniques, he has some ideas on how he will bond with X AE A-Xii when he grows up.
“I think just doing what I have done with my other children,” he explained. “If I have a trip for Tesla to China, for example, I will bring the children with me and we will go see the Great Wall.” or we took the bullet train from Beijing to Xian and saw the Terracotta Warriors. “
Musk also added that he created an online school for his five older children that “really worked quite well.”
X AE A-Xii, affectionately nicknamed Little X by Grimes, was born on May 4, as announced by Musk on Twitter. The couple has sparked controversy with their son’s name, which is pronounced “X Ash A Twelve.” The original spelling of his name, X Æ A-12 had to be changed to include Roman numerals due to California state law that prohibits the use of numbers on birth certificates.
Even with his busy schedule, the CEO of Tesla has had time to hang out with “Little X”. Musk shared a recent photo of his two-month-old son, and went to Twitter to share the father-son photo.
“Das baby kann noch keinen löffel benutzen,” Musk captioned the photo. The quote translates from German to “Baby can’t use a spoon yet.”
