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Inconceivable!		2012-04-23 05:38:27 PM

Dads need not apply.

Minimum		2012-04-23 05:40:37 PM

Inconceivable!: Dads need not apply.

What he said.

Nothing like waking up kids that are little more than toddlers to start turning them into "athletes".

don't understand		2012-04-23 05:48:14 PM

"It worked for me."

RoyBatty		2012-04-23 05:48:48 PM

Seriously, those helicopter moms seem to be real coonts.

jonjr215		2012-04-23 05:57:10 PM

It's an ad for Mother's Day, hence the reason the Dads were left out. I thought it was a pretty good ad...

Tillmaster		2012-04-23 06:01:30 PM

Depressing ad. Encouraging little kids to become athletes before they've had time to be little kids?
For shame.

jonjr215		2012-04-23 06:09:51 PM

Tillmaster: Depressing ad. Encouraging little kids to become athletes before they've had time to be little kids?
For shame.

You make it sound like every successful athlete is being forced into it. I don't buy that. Most of the natural athletes (those who obviously have raw talent at a young age) who go pro or become Olympians have amazing drive. Sure, mom and dad might have encouraged the kid as a child, but nobody becomes a pro athlete because "mommy and daddy made me do it." It takes a passion from within to reach that level of achievement.

ccguy		2012-04-23 06:19:16 PM

And each kid is in a different event, so there's none of that awkward beating-a-foreign-kid-with-a-caring-mother stuff.

HellRaisingHoosier		2012-04-23 06:49:52 PM

Tillmaster: Depressing ad. Encouraging little kids to become athletes before they've had time to be little kids?
For shame.

Aren't sure if serious ....
I loved being in sports as a kid.

pudding7		2012-04-23 06:57:09 PM

Aren't a lot of Olympic gymnasts basically raised by their coaches at some kind of perpetual gymnastics camp?

randomjsa		2012-04-23 08:22:04 PM

Remember, these women never worked a day in their life.

Marshall Willenholly		2012-04-23 09:13:52 PM

Meanwhile, Dad is slaving away at a 80-hour a week job to pay for it all. Either that or he ran off because of the slave-driving biatch.

SmackLT		2012-04-23 10:31:38 PM

Wow, a lot of hate in this thread. Not at all what I expected when I saw it. I liked it. These are moms that make time sacrifices to help their kids do what the kids want to do. I must have missed the part of the video where the moms were screaming at unwilling children. Maybe it got edited out.

Good video.

SmackLT		2012-04-23 10:35:00 PM

jonjr215: Tillmaster: Depressing ad. Encouraging little kids to become athletes before they've had time to be little kids?
For shame.

You make it sound like every successful athlete is being forced into it. I don't buy that. Most of the natural athletes (those who obviously have raw talent at a young age) who go pro or become Olympians have amazing drive. Sure, mom and dad might have encouraged the kid as a child, but nobody becomes a pro athlete because "mommy and daddy made me do it." It takes a passion from within to reach that level of achievement.

Yeah, I'm with you on this. I've got a kid and I take her to a gymnastics class once per week. She gets to exercise in a way that's fun for her, and I remind her that if she's trying to do something specific (like a flip) to focus and work on doing it well.

PIP_the_TROLL		2012-04-23 11:30:26 PM

I thought it was a beautiful ad. I agree Mother's Day is some sort of racket, but the ad itself was fantastic. We owe a lot to our moms.

We weren't rich growing up, but my mom dragged us four kids everywhere and got us in to everything she could. Art classes, tennis lessons, drama class, music, football (soccer), swimming, scouts (boy and girl), martial arts, etc.

She didn't force us to keep them up if we weren't interested, but when we were she got behind us and supported us in the stuff we loved doing for as long as we loved doing it.

I was pretty short for a boy so a lot of the team sports sucked for me. But in martial arts, I shined. My big brother eventually joined the same school and our mom was there every step of the way. We're from a small Caribbean island, so most of the tournaments we went to were in the US or elsewhere in the region and she was always one of the parents helping to chaperone all the kids on all those trips. My brother went on to rank pretty highly in the circuit in the US and I went on to train other kids and pass on what I knew, forming some of the fondest memories of my life.

None of that would have been possible without my mom.

Thanks mom.

Langston		2012-04-24 07:53:35 AM

PIP_the_TROLL: I thought it was a beautiful ad. I agree Mother's Day is some sort of racket, but the ad itself was fantastic. We owe a lot to our moms.

We weren't rich growing up, but my mom dragged us four kids everywhere and got us in to everything she could. Art classes, tennis lessons, drama class, music, football (soccer), swimming, scouts (boy and girl), martial arts, etc.

She didn't force us to keep them up if we weren't interested, but when we were she got behind us and supported us in the stuff we loved doing for as long as we loved doing it.

I was pretty short for a boy so a lot of the team sports sucked for me. But in martial arts, I shined. My big brother eventually joined the same school and our mom was there every step of the way. We're from a small Caribbean island, so most of the tournaments we went to were in the US or elsewhere in the region and she was always one of the parents helping to chaperone all the kids on all those trips. My brother went on to rank pretty highly in the circuit in the US and I went on to train other kids and pass on what I knew, forming some of the fondest memories of my life.

None of that would have been possible without my mom.

Thanks mom.

That's a cool story.

/no snark, serious

Bruce Campbell		2012-04-24 08:57:04 AM

jonjr215: It's an ad for Mother's Day, hence the reason the Dads were left out. I thought it was a pretty good ad...

Apparently you don't pay attention to ads. In ads, dads are stereotypically absentee or dumb or clumsy or inconsiderate or selfish or some combination of all of these. All I know is that I contribute 50% of the time and attention my kids receive if not more as I'm also supportive of my wife's career path, even to the detriment of my own earning potential. This is because I want everyone in my family to feel fulfilled. Money is not everything to me and is why I have positioned myself in my job so that I can take the time when the time is needed. I am pretty sure that I am not the only one, yet we are made to be the farking punchline in ads, if present.

The Flexecutioner		2012-04-24 12:40:09 PM

absent from the ad--heart crushing disappointment from the losers and their parents.

i guess the coveted .01% winner market was something those companies struggled to hold onto.

The Flexecutioner		2012-04-24 12:43:48 PM

Bruce Campbell: jonjr215: It's an ad for Mother's Day, hence the reason the Dads were left out. I thought it was a pretty good ad...

Apparently you don't pay attention to ads. In ads, dads are stereotypically absentee or dumb or clumsy or inconsiderate or selfish or some combination of all of these. All I know is that I contribute 50% of the time and attention my kids receive if not more as I'm also supportive of my wife's career path, even to the detriment of my own earning potential. This is because I want everyone in my family to feel fulfilled. Money is not everything to me and is why I have positioned myself in my job so that I can take the time when the time is needed. I am pretty sure that I am not the only one, yet we are made to be the farking punchline in ads, if present.

this is because there isn't really any Male Anti-defamation league or somesuch (at least an organized powerful group). Men are advertised this way because we arent uprising against it. It's way easier to portray us as big idiots/failures mostly because we let it. I'm pissed about it, too. But I only go so far as to vote with my dollar, denying them paltry amounts of coin for their ad techniques. It's not enough, though.