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These 23 Kids Have The Most Overbearing Parents Imaginable

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Mom has 2 sons. First one came out as gay, which horrified her. After this, she became obsessed with making sure her second son wouldn’t come out. Because she had forbidden the elder son from doing anything that involved girls, she thought maybe that was why he “turned” gay. For her second son, she decided that she had to make him do things with girls, so she pulled up the name of a girl that he had once had a crush on years ago, went to the girl’s mom, and asked (demanded?) that the girl go to prom with her son. The girl’s mom agreed. Keep in mind that neither kid expressed interest in each other. Nonetheless, overbearing mom made her son make posters and bought flowers for him to use in the Ask, all 2 days before the actual event I’d love to say they had a great time, but I heard from one of the other couples that it wasn’t fun, and I think the girl found out eventually that her prom date wasn’t really into her.

22.

My dad prided himself on being a “hovercraft” parent, just a few leaps above your typical helicopter parent. He would track my phone. Once I was in a movie theater and he set off the “Find your IPhone.” In. The. Middle. Of. The. Movie. He was a great dad, just… A little extra.

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The mom of a girl I went to middle school with would come to lunch to see what table her daughter was sitting at. If she was with the “less popular” girls she would walk her over to the “popular table” and ask to make room for her. When we got to High School she “volunteered in the office” a couple times a week but would come out to the cafeteria at lunch hour to check where she was sitting.

Written by Alex Cogen

Alex is a New Yorker currently living in Austin. She loves cats, grass, and latex but unfortunately is allergic to all 3. She makes mom and dad jokes more than she cares to admit (jk she'll admit it loud and proud). She isn't as funny as she thinks she is. She is the founder of thelazygurl.com.