That I cannot know.

She uploads information about him and pictures of him repeatedly – also on full public view.

Actually, I feel very sorry for that child – it’s a rotten enough deal being the only son of oldish parents as it is without having to deal with that kind of ‘I have no clue how to be a mother but let me put my son on parade so people know I have one’ behaviour.

I don’t see what other children have to do with it, quite frankly.

If you are a friend or relation of Mrs Borg, advise her to stop posting this kind of thing – or anything at all really – about her son. He is at the sort of age where he is going to be ribbed about it at school, he’s growing up, and she’s speaking about him as though he is five years old.

It’s a common affliction in older mothers who are cut off, for one reason or another, from raising their children with a group of other young mothers. The result is that they lose their perspective and see their children in isolation, which makes them lose track completely of what is age-appropriate.