Overbearing Mothers

If a home with an under-involved father is a potential breeding ground of the hoodlum, one in which there is an over-involved mother is most definitely the incubator of the Ebonerd. As you are reading this post, in homes all across America right now, there are good-intentioned mothers who are audibly recalling every embarrassing nickname born by their children in a room full of their friends (which usually ends in this), or refusing to allow their daughter to wear anything but church dresses to high school in the fear she will be like those “fast-girls” (did you ever look like this?), or insisting that her son add ballet to his list of after-school activities so he’ll be well-rounded (but he pretty much just ends up like this). Never seeming to know what not to say, when not to say it, and to whom not to say it to, the overbearing mother, who is bent on preparing her babies for adulthood, always seems to forget one important fact. In order for her babies to make it to their well-equipped adulthood, they first have to survive adolescence…and all her conscious efforts to assure the former are only matched by her unconscious actions that prevent the latter. Overbearing mothers, we salute you. Keep US nerdy.