shhh... that might bring up another set of issues for trekker.lol
-- Jeri, what are you doing?
-- I thought he'd like that.
-- No, not really; not this time.
Beverly: Overprotective mother.
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-- Jeri, what are you doing?
-- I thought he'd like that.
-- No, not really; not this time.
I never thought she was overprotective at all. I've always seen her as very permissive with him. We don't really see many scenes with the two of them as "mother and son", they always seemed rather disconnected to me.
He also seems far more independent than many kids his age. How many people do you know who are allowed to run a ship in high school, and move out permanently at 16 to travel the galaxy with a virtual stranger. All of this was with his mother's approval.
He also seems far more independent than many kids his age. How many people do you know who are allowed to run a ship in high school, and move out permanently at 16 to travel the galaxy with a virtual stranger. All of this was with his mother's approval.
Yes I think she might have been slightly over the top but I think in some ways she felt she had to compensate for the fact that Wesley only had one parent and felt like she had to be both mother and father to him.
Perhaps she felt she had to compensate for a lot of things; seeing as she didn't find a new husband.
Those who think her reactions are typical of other mother does that extend to freaking out over a girl showing interest in a 18 year-old boy!!!
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One of the many things parents freak out over, along with driving lessons, driving as a newly licensed driver, School Certificiate and Higher School Certificate assessment tasks getting completed and handed in on time, kids getting enough sleep, studying enough, not overdoing it, going to the pub/club with their mates (who's the DD?) etc.......
Parents worry about these types of things, (even once their kids are grown up). You may not be aware of it, but it's always there. No matter how old you children are, they will aways be your "babies".
Worrying !== Smothering
Any mother who worries about their 18 year old son, who's old enough to be in Starfleet academy- having a girl show a keen interest in him is being smoothering and overprotective. It'd be one thing if Wes was 14 and the girl was 30 but, no, they were both young adults. And she reacts like a hillbilly father watching his a guy leer at his teenage girl.
That's not being protective that's being a smoothering shrew.
Let me introduce you to my almost 80yo MIL who still worries over my husband & my BILs - none of whom is under 50. Who also worries about her daughters-in-law, grandchildren & great grandchildren. My SILs worry over their adult kids (and grandkids) just as I worry over my kids (no grandkids yet).
When your offspring are dating, you worry about the person they are seeing. Are they a good person? Are they good to your son or daughter? Wll they treat them well? Will they be happy? Will this relationship last? Is your son or daughter going to get hurt by this person? Do you think that your parents aren't having the same worries about you? The worrying for parents, doesn't just stop because there are 16, 18, 21 or 45 candles on your most recent birthday cake.
When your offspring are dating, you worry about the person they are seeing. Are they a good person? Are they good to your son or daughter? Wll they treat them well? Will they be happy? Will this relationship last? Is your son or daughter going to get hurt by this person? Do you think that your parents aren't having the same worries about you? The worrying for parents, doesn't just stop because there are 16, 18, 21 or 45 candles on your most recent birthday cake.
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Of course you worry a bit. But not too much; you have faith in your children and their sense of responsibility and intuition.
I mentioned that -pointing out that her reactions and that episode were normal, even probably expected, for a mother whose child was just sentenced to death because he fell on a flower bed.
Freaking out because her 18 year-old sun has a girl who is interested in him or because her 19 year old-son didn't get a haircut at the precise moment? A little beyond "normal." - IMO.
Chill babe. You think mothers are bad in the over-protective stakes, wait until you get the mother-in-law!
Especially in the Netherlands.
