This Mom Did a Squat for Every Time Her 4-Year-Old Said "Mom" and Immediately Regretted It

Every parent has thought it: how many times can one tiny human say“Mom”in a single day? Jess Sharp, a 34-year-old mom from upstate New York, decided to actually find out. She challenged herself to one squat for every“Mom”her 4-year-old daughter Amelia said in a morning, and Amelia delivered over 200 of them, including four in a row. By the next day, Sharp could barely make it up and down the stairs, and the soreness lasted two full days.

The video went viral, with commenters crowning her“quadzilla”and joking she’d be“skinny af by 6pm.”Sharp thinks the reason it connected is simple: every parent hears“Mom”constantly, but nobody realizes how many until they start counting. She later turned the idea into a full-day version where her husband owed her a dollar per“Mom.”The final tally was 405, and he paid up in the hundreds. She hasn’t repeated the squat version, but she’s now a believer in“workout snacks,”short bursts of movement squeezed into a busy day. The timing works out, since a 2022 study found fewer than half of moms with young kids meet standard exercise guidelines, averaging just 18 to 19 minutes of daily activity.

So would you try it? One squat per“Mom,”one burpee per question, whatever your kid throws at you. Tell us in the comments how many reps you’d be looking at.