A Mother Stalks Her Young Son’s Crush

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AllisonWonder — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:52:20 GMT

Oh, come on now, guys- who will even know it's him? There have got to be, like, eight kids named "Sarvis" in every grade-school class in Anerica.

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Sarvis' Dad — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:23:14 GMT

Y'all crack me up.

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Greer's Mum — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:23:48 GMT

Poor Sarvis. She said in the article that the writing on the wall embarassed him. I wonder how he feels about her sending that writing out into the world?

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erni — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:58:34 GMT

Wow, could you imagine being a preteen and having a Mom like this? Go on all you want about how you relate, but I doubt that kid can even remotely understand why his mom is CRAZY.

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Hillary — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:05:03 GMT

I agree with Amber that the line about a boy growing up and leaving his mother seemed on target to me, a mother of a boy.

But, having read the essay yesterday before seeing this or the Jezebel post, I did find the whole thing a little creepy. I mean, I want my son to remain close to me as he gets older, but I think the surest way of preventing that would be to flip out over every little girl -- or eventually woman -- who likes him.

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BBBGMOM — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:45:34 GMT

OK - I haven't read the article (but I plan to momentarily)... However, based on this snippet, I'd qualify the essay for the Bad Parent series. I have boys (10 and 7) and I have NONE of the attachment described in this post. I love those boys (and their sis) more than words can describe, but I have a healthy respect for boundaries and a desire that they do grow up and away... that will mean I have succeeded as a parent, for goodness sake!

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anne05 — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:17:16 GMT

Yeah, I'm with Amber. In our society boys are taught to be less emotionally demonstrative the older they get. There's a reason "mama's boy" is a derogatory term. Why not be sad about that?

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Amber — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:42:43 GMT

Actually,the article made me tear up. My son is only 19 weeks old and I'm already sad about the day he'll grow up and fall in love and leave me behind.

I don't think this mother is beign oepidal at all. I think she poetically articulated what many mothers of growing boys must feel.

There's that old saying "A daughter is yours for the rest of your life but a son is your 'till he finds a wife."

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Treespeed — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:14:11 GMT

If this was a father writing this someone would have called CPS.