Do you know how many times your child says mom on a single day? Much, much more than you think!
The word “mom” is one of the sweetest to our ears. But this delicious word can become invasive, overflowing, tense after a day spent hearing it on all tones. There is the mother who claims a hug, the mother who asks for a snack, the mother who wants to know where the pair of favorite shoes is but of course the “mamaaaaaaaan” pronounced without reason. After 12 hours, that does a lot, a lot of “mom”. We know, we counted!
It all started with Amber Jackson, an American influencer, who decided to count on a day, by means of a small manual counter, the number of times his children called him mom. His video has become viral on Instagram with nearly 180,000 views and gave the idea to other mothers to experience. “I heard different variants of” mom! “More than 400 times today. It does not include the 3 hours that I spent in the cinema, nor the number of times I heard it without counting it because my brain has not recorded”explains the mother of three children. “I love my children with all my heart, but this experience really opened my eyes to the reasons why I am so tired at the end of the day. Why my mind is steep and that I can’t think clearly”observe Amber Jackson.
At the editorial staff, our colleague has also played the game with his three -year -old boy. She draws an astonishing observation: “In fact, we do not realize how the word mom is the beginning of each of her sentences!“. The results at 7 p.m. almost 90” mothers “pronounced during the day. Every occasions are good: “Mom, where is Papa?”, “Mom, I want it”, “Mom, look at how I do it!”. “”I also had mom twice in one sentence so the counter goes up quickly! “, she jokes. What would the children do without their mom to listen to them, console them, look at them? We wonder!
If the experience is fun, it also raises questions and illustrates well how demanding and sometimes completely exhausting. Of course, he also pronounces the word “dad”, but much less often during the day. Being permanently asked, it is also part of the mental charge which ultimately involves responding 100 times a day “Yes, my darling, I’m here, I see you“.
