Please, Mom, Don't Embarrass Me on Facebook

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When my son set up his Facebook profile I provided him a list of non-negotiable rules to follow. At the end of my proclamation I asked if he had any rules for me. "Just don't embarrass me," he said.

Fat chance.

I'm his mother. Nearly everything I do embarrasses him. But I try. No holding hands in public, no referring to him as my baby in the written word, and no attempts at the teenage vernacular. Until recently, the lines of his social life and mine have been clearly defined, but Facebook has changed all that. If we're not careful, our social circles could become unnaturally intertwined, and as the grown-up I feel responsible to maintain the borders of this strange new land.

Read the rest of this post on the TODAY Show Moms blog.

 

 

 

 

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