Mom Shares Genius Parenting Hack for Getting Baby To 'Stay in One Place'

A mom-of-two has shared a video showcasing an inventive hack for busy parents—but all was not as it initially may have seemed.

Lisa Flom from Eden Prairie in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a mother of two daughters aged 3 and 1. So she knows a thing or two about the demands placed on moms today. "Being a mom can sometimes be overwhelming," she told Newsweek.

Multitasking is an important but much-loathed part of modern parenting today. Unfortunately, it seems moms are still taking on the bulk of the parenting tasks. A study published in the journal American Sociological Review found that working moms spent as many as 10 hours more a week multitasking compared with working fathers.

Despite dads being more engaged in parenting at home, moms continue to take on much of the responsibility, so any help or advice is always welcome. That's kind of what prompted Flom to set up her TikTok channel, ljflommom, which currently boasts over 765,000 followers.

"I have had lots of conversations with other moms about mom hacks or tips and tricks that they have used to make motherhood life just a bit easier," she said. "I created a social channel around that idea!"

Flom's "hacks" should probably be taken with a grain of salt though. Previous tips have included using frozen wet nappies as giant band-aids for bumps and encouraging potty training by having kids color in the toilet with felt pens.

It's clear Flom is having a little satirical fun with the concept of a parenting hack and, for the most part, viewers appear to be in on the joke. However, that's not been the case for some of those watching her latest video which has exploded on TikTok amassing over 28 million views and counting.

In the video, captioned "keep your baby in one place," Flom shows how, by attaching two Velcro strips to the back of her baby's sweater and two to a nearby couch, she can put her daughter down for a second knowing she won't be going anywhere.

Explaining the idea behind the hack, with tongue firmly in cheek, Flom said: "My one-year-old is all over the place and sometimes you just want two minutes to get something done."

She claims she didn't come up with the concept herself. "It was actually my husband's idea to add Velcro to the chair and the back of the baby's clothes so she would stay in one place."

Whatever the truth, it's important to stress that Flom is not recommending this as a sensible approach to parenting a young infant or a tip to help ease the stress of childcare.

Instead, it's meant purely as a bit of fun. Some viewers were definitely in on the joke. "My toddler would be running around with a pillow Velcroed to her back," one quipped with another asking: "How many would you use on teenagers clothing?"

Unfortunately, many watching the video were far from amused. "Why don't you just tie the kid up...it's no different," one user wrote. "How demeaning." Another added: "That's how you choked your own baby w**."

The angry responses to the video left some viewers in the know despairing. "The way people think this is serious makes me scared for society."

Reflecting on the video's viral success, Flom joked that the clip had likely proven popular because it was "an idea that a lot of people thought about but haven't actually tried!"

Whatever the case, she said: "It was fun to bring the idea to life." Ultimately she hopes that her videos, rather than be taken as instructional, remind fellow parents out there to laugh every once in a while.

"Being a parent is fun! Having kids is fun!" she said. "These are a bunch of ideas and hacks to make it easier and also make you laugh while you are doing it!"

Please don't try any of this at home.