What happened today
Colby and me (photo by Jonathan Baskin for the New York Post)
This has been the craziest day of my FOF life. Starting at 6:30 a.m., producers from Today, Good Morning America, The Early Show, Fox & Friends, and numerous other shows, invited me and my son, Colby, to come on air to talk about Date My Single Kid, a new feature we launched today on FabOverFifty.com. They found out about the idea from an article that ran today in The New York Post.
The premise of DMSK is simple. Many FOF women aren’t embarrassed, afraid or shy about fixing up our single “kids” (Our “kids,” in most cases, are twenty, thirty, even forty something.) Why not act as “agents” for them, I thought. After all, isn’t that what all the dating sites do anyway?
FOF members can post photos of their single kids on DMSK and tell everyone why they’re so fab. FOF moms (or friends, aunts, grand mothers, etc.) do the prep work, connect with each other, and then decide if their “kids” might be compatible. Of course, the kids need to go along with our idea for this to work. By the way, my 31-year-old single son is running DMSK.
Apparently, the idea resonated around the globe. The New York Post story has been picked up by the French newspaper Le Figaro, a morning talk show in the UK wants to do a segment on DMSK, and on and on.
I would be afraid to get involved with your son if you are part of the package..you are a smother, not a mother..give this guy some freedom to find his own gal and butt out…..you are too much..
Madelyn – One of the most important things that I will be hoping for in a future son-in-law, is his love for his own mother and all women in general! Obviously, Geri and Colby have a healthy mother-son relationship are great friends AND he has even chosen to work with her! How much more of a testament to a healthy, happy parent relationship can there be? Young women should run as fast as they can from a man that either has no relationship with his mother, disrespects her in anyway or even worse- can’t stand to be around her. I can only speak from experience, but coming from a family where my father adored his mother, sisters, my mother, her mother, my sisters and I – and eventually his three granddaughters, and let us know that everyday – it has meant the world to me and my own self respect and the men I have chosen to spend my life around. A real loving woman welcomes into her heart and home a mother-in-law that has the love and respect from her son.
For the person with the ‘smother’ comment: Read the ‘marriages’ stories in the New York Times on their site. I’m estimating that at least 60% of the time (now I realize this is sort of a ‘self-selected group because their stories are being printed in the Times…), the couple has gotten together because (drum roll, please), they’ve been fixed up by friends or relatives. In a recent story, the couple had been set up by their fathers! And even through they fought it and grimaced their way through it – hello! The ‘rents knew them better than they thought they knew themselves. They fell in love and got married.
Mom’s have only one goal in mind: grandchildren. And in order to have grandkids, you have to get the kids married off, hopefully in a settled and happy way. Otherwise, no grandchildren. Mom’s are pretty honest – yes, to every mom, their kid IS the prettiest/handsomest/smartest/hardest working/most talented/most funny/ best xyz. But at least it isn’t hiring someone to write your entry for JDate or something like that. No Mom is going to put their kid on DMSK if they’re a serial killer: “Has had bad luck with all the other first dates”. Seriously – any kid who’s gotten past the “8×10″ glossy stage has faced him/herself in the bathroom mirror and said, “I’d really like to be in a nice, committed, comfy relationship – even if the person does NOT look like Justin Timberlake/Cameron Diaz/Penelope Cruz, works as an accountant/school teacher, and has dental issues.” Sometimes, people need a helping hand.
Bravo to you for another great idea!