Rent a mom for your college kid? Some parents are spending up to $2,500

These days, some parents aren’t just sending their kids off to college with a laptop and a laundry bag — they’re sending money to rent a mom!

These aren’t babysitters. They’re not tutors. They’re more like a mom-on-demand for college students whose real moms are hundreds, sometimes thousands, of miles away.

And apparently, there’s a market for that motherly touch.

According to The New York Post, these services are growing in college towns around the country.

Some Rent-A-Mom services offer laundry and dorm cleaning.

Need a little homemade chicken soup? Mom’s got you. Forgot to pick up your prescription? There’s a mom for that, too.

And the price tag? Well, this is definitely not your average allowance.

‘Bama Mama’ offers rent-a-mom support for up to $2,500

Carrie Eckhardt is known as the “Bama Mama” near the University of Alabama. Her packages range from nearly $1,300 to $2,500.

But Eckhardt began her social media presence as “Uber Mama.”

“All of the kids would call me, say I sounded just like their mom, because whenever they would get out of the car, I would say, ‘Don’t drink too much, pace yourself. If you arrive together, you leave together. Don’t take any drinks that didn’t come from the bartender,'” Eckhardt told WVTM.

And it quickly transformed into “Bama Mama.”

“Parents started liking and seeing their kids, and because they had a relationship, and like, ‘Hey, they were in your Uber the other day,’ they asked if I could take them some medicine or help them out, or it’s their birthday coming up,” she said. “Can you, if you’re not busy, can you deliver them some flowers?”

One parent based in Texas said it’s comforting to have Bama Mama nearby watching out for her son who’s a freshman.

“Makes me feel good,” she said. “I mean, like a piece of my heart is in Alabama, and so it’s just great to know that there’s another Mama there to love on, and I’m gonna cry.”