Boy, oh boy — overbearing “boy moms” are getting a virtual spanking.
Smothers, a cheeky label assigned to clingy mothers who overwhelmingly micromanage their kids, are shamelessly cranking up the heat of their heavy-handedness with videos of themselves training their toddler sons to reject mediocrity from their future life partners.
Beneath the #BoyMom hashtag, which has amassed over 24.7 billion views on TikTok, mothers with boys are giddily boasting about the everyday skills they passed down to their sons.
“Making sure my son can cook so he’s not impressed by your daughter’s [Stouffer’s] lasagna,” Laura Elizabeth Graham, 28, wrote in the closed captions of her polarizing video, now with more than 62,000 views on the app. In it, she’s seen smiling in the kitchen with her tot as he turns a spoon inside of a stainless steel bowl. But midway through the clip, she ditches her loving grin for a stern look into the camera — glaring at a sea of imaginary mothers of little girls who’ll one day hope to sweep him off of his feet by heating up frozen meals.
“He’s gonna need a home-cooked meal, Felicia,” Graham captioned the clip, punctuating her sassy mama sentiments with hashtags like #BoyMom, #MamasBoys and #MotherInLawProbellems.
Graham, a Tennessee-based lifestyle influencer, explained to The Post that her goal was to make her digital fanbase laugh with a lighthearted child-rearing skit, providing instructions on how to prevent sons from having to feign excitement when future girlfriends attempt to woo them with their subpar culinary endeavors.
“Being a #BoyMom to my babies, Liam and Lincoln, is my purpose in life,” she told The Post. “My goal is not only to raise successful young men, but also kind-hearted individuals.”
“It makes me sad that some people call my relationship with my sons ‘creepy’ based on a 7-second video,” she added.
Indeed, rather than laughing with Graham, digital detractors found the whole scene a bit weird.
“Boy moms are a new kind of species,” quipped a creeped-out commenter.
“Emotional incest,” spat another hater.
“It’s giving Freud,” wrote an equally outraged onlooker, suggesting Graham’s behavior backs the psychoanalyst’s well-known “Odeipus Complex,” his theory that small boys are motivated by a lustful infatuation with their mothers.
Graham thinks her slander-spewing naysayers totally misunderstood the message.
“I thought the cooking video was hilarious because it’s honestly a jab at myself,” she told The Post. “I am the daughter who cooks Stouffers lasagna. My husband is actually the cook in our house and I am so blessed by that.”
Undeterred by the deluge of backlash, Graham went on to publish a subsequent post that smacked of parental pretense.
“Training up my son in the sacred art of skincare so your daughter won’t need a lawyer to defend her $200 serums,” she titled Instagram footage of herself as she eagerly guides the kiddo through an extensive personal grooming routine. Digital detractors quickly turned their noses up at the maternal missive, but Graham says the vid was simply meant to tickle their funny bones.
“It’s a total joke!,” she later insisted to The Post. “I’m basically saying that I want to get my son used to these expensive products and understand the value of them so his future partner doesn’t have to justify the expenses.”
And other unabashed boy moms are happily following Graham’s lead.
Sivan Ayla Richards, a mother of a toddler boy from California, shared footage of herself teaching her tot to cook so that he’s “not impressed with your daughter’s dusty takeout skills.” And Rina, a proud boy mom of two sons from Arizona, too, posted a clip of her son learning his way around the kitchen, captioning the vid, in part, with, “So he’s not impressed with your daughter’s dry a- – chicken.”
Critics have become increasingly outspoken about the #BoyMom movement, arguing that domineering mamas of the world should be grateful for their sons’ prospective romantic partners, rather than prematurely judging them.
Jolene, a self-touted “gender-creative mom” from Southern California, scolded the hardcore boy moms for their cringe-worthy conduct, saying, “This is giving future dusty mother-in-law energy,” in a clip with over 12,000 views.
In the title of her post, Jolene championed the disparaged daughter who’ll grow up to date the son of boy mom, nicknaming the low-fuss girl a “Hot Pocket Thotty” — arguing that women who enjoy the microwaveable pizza snack deserve respect.
“Hot Pocket Thotty isn’t your enemy,” Jolene explained to the mothers, “She just likes convenience.”
In the wake of the chaos she unintentionally caused, Graham told The Post she’s done making “boy mom” bits.
“I’ve always been one to stay away from drama,” she confessed. “So I’ll probably focus on other humorous #Momlife videos.”
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