The MySpace mom, 49-year-old Lori Drew, has served as a tragic role model for her own kid by creating an online account purporting to be a 16-year-old boy in order to communicate with and humiliate a teenage girl by pretending to "romance" and then "break up" with her, which resulted in the girl hanging herself.

This harkens back to the cheerleader mom, who'd hoped to promote her daughter's "sis-boom-bahing" by hiring a hit man to kill the mother of her kid's cheerleading rival, anticipating the girl would be too upset to participate in the competition.

It's within the realm of normal to be a class mom, to say, "good job" and to hire tutors, but there's such a thing as being an overly involved parent. Psychiatrists and pharmacologists, take note: We are desperately in need of a new diagnosis (Obsessed Mom Syndrome?) and effective meds.