User blog comment:CreddieLuv4eva/Questionable Stuff on the Seddie page (A Biased Rant)-THIS IS FOR CREDDIERS/@comment-3101374-20110421235730/@comment-3419317-20110422052545

Also, let's not forget that according to one of Freddie's blogs ...

http://www.icarly.com/iBlogs/entry309.html

Laws That My Mom Is Trying to Get Passed

'''10. No Sam Puckett. (She thinks that Sam should be put in juvie for good. Even Sam's mom thought about signing this one, but she didn't because she needs someone to record her favorite TV shows for her.)'''

I am skeptical of the idea that Mrs. Benson wants her son to date Sam.

As for Carly ... I found it interesting (and actually quite realistic) that Mrs. Benson seemed to want Carly to go out with Freddie in iWill Date Freddie and then became increasingly hostile to the idea (and to Carly herself) in later seasons.

This is actually a pattern I've seen happen in real life, more than once : A parent wants very much for his/her child to find a significant other, but when it looks like the child is actually about to find one, the parent suddenly becomes very hostile to the whole thing.

Mrs. Benson is basically struggling between two powerful instincts. She wants Freddie to find somebody and be happy, but at the same time, she doesn't want anybody to take Freddie away from her.

I imagine that it's particularly hard for a single parent with nobody else, really, in her life. Freddie is pretty much Mrs. Benson's entire world, and she doesn't want to compete with anybody for his time and attention.

(Interestingly, that might be at least part of the reason for her hostility toward Sam, as well as Carly.)

Also, like many parents (particularly one as doting as Mrs. Benson), she probably won't believe that any girl she sees would be "good enough" for her son, and Carly and Sam are evidently not the exceptions.