結果、20分くらい気づかれず。これはたまには役立つかも…
このパネルは、ビッグダミー（スーパーとかにある巨大なパネル）など、販促物をつくってるリンクスさんにお願いして、「ビッグマミー」をつくってもらいました🙏https://t.co/zLfGDZpiPapic.twitter.com/zp5qiyqoRq
— 佐藤ねじ / ブルーパドル (@sato_nezi) December 8, 2019
One Japanese mom has a genius solution to separation anxiety.
When Fuki Sato needed to be able to leave her toddler son in a room by himself, she and her husband came up with a clever scheme to place a couple of life-size, full-length cardboard cutouts of Mom around the house.
“It’s hard because my 1-year-old child cries as soon as Mom disappears,” dad Neji Sato wrote on Twitter, according to Daily Mail. “As a countermeasure, I experimented with what would happen if I set up a ‘life-sized panel mother.’ ”
Sato shared images and a video of the experiment on social media. Given the boy’s ear-to-ear grin, it would appear the ruse was a success.
One cutout of Sato shows Fuki standing up, and in another she’s seated on the floor with her legs tucked underneath her and a smile on her face — as if she’s ready to greet her little one.
In footage posted to Twitter, which has been viewed more than 2.1 million times so far, Sato can be seen placing a cutout at the entrance of her kitchen area as her son plays in front of the television a few feet away. Her husband, meanwhile, films their boy from the couch while Mrs. Sato ducks out of the room.
“As a result, it is not noticed for about 20 minutes,” he wrote, adding, “This panel may be useful occasionally.”
In the video, Neji laughs to himself as their son looks over his shoulder for Mom. He seems appeased to see her decoy in the kitchen, and carries on with playtime. Later, the boy’s father films him playing with a box of toys just in front of the child gate leading to the kitchen, with “Mom” standing just beyond the gate.
In a follow-up clip posted to Twitter — from an account launched by Mr. Sato with the express purpose of sharing tweets from the perspective of his children — the boy drinks from his sippy cup at a table in view of the kitchen area. This time, the boy seems somewhat perplexed by the cutout, presumably wondering why Mom would be standing there instead of doting on him.
Dad wrote, “It was such a reaction.”
