If you’ve ever been positively-trolled by your mum on Facebook, you’ll know that mothers can be a pretty embarrassing bunch when they want to be. Whether it’s picking you up from outside school with a needlessly high-pitched “yoo-hoo,” or sitting your friends down for a slideshow picture presentation of that time you filled your toddler trousers with shepherd’s pie, mums will always find a way to embarrass you.

And so, with that in mind, please spare a thought for this fallen-comrade of embarrassing mums. The son of Marieke Voorslujis, if you’re reading this, please know that our thoughts are with you at this time.

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Marieke Voorslujis from Amsterdam, you see, likes to hug her son. Now that, in and of itself, is pretty much your standard fare in the world of embarrassing mum stories. A mother’s love…yada, yada, yada, yada; a maternal connection between child and parent, we get it. However, we doubt that any of your mums have been so into hugging you that they decided to knit a life-sized version of you that they can hug whenever they please.