Posted on 01/10/2014 9:00:43 AM PST by rhema
Proctor and Gamble has released a video ahead of the 2014 winter Olympics, which begin next month. The ad portrays the role of moms in helping their children achieve their goals.
The video opens with moms around the world helping their children learn the very first basics of physical independence, like walking. As their children grow older and begin to experiment with outdoor sports, the role of the mom shifts as she is now the one to pick them up and clean them off after they fall.
Their children continue to grow and progress in their respective sports, and mom’s job becomes more hands-off, moral support. Ultimately their children make it to the winter Olympic games, thanks to the unfailing support of their mothers from their earliest days.
The video concludes, “For teaching us that falling only makes us stronger. Thank you, Mom.”
wonderful!!
I’m thinkin more moms use Tide than dads.
Sweet ad.
I’m thinkin’ it’s more of the ‘dads aren’t important’ mentality.
Should be thanking their dads for even being born. I’m sure mom had a headache and wasn’t in the mood...
Guess who most often walks down the grocery aisle to choose the products they sell?
Very cute ad. I’m not getting into if it disses the Dad or not. I will say that any ad/commercial/whatever right now that supports life is good. Phelps, for example, only had a Mom (Dad was divorced and not in the kid’s lives). It was his Mom who drove him to early a.m and after school swimming lessons and competitions. Statistically, it is probably the Moms who do most of the driving to and from the sporting events. This ad.. I see as an acknowledgment of an involved Mom.
To bad you can’t appreciate it for what it is.... just a sweet ad, and you have to make it all about you. Don’t mean to pick a fight but when I see ads similar that highlight dads, I also appreciate them. Sometimes I tear up.
P&G has ALWAYS targeted women, who are their primary customers: soap, health & beauty, hair.
There was a time, I think, in the early 60’s when all TV soaps (directed at the Mom audience) were partially or fully sponsored by some P&G soap product.
Guess who most often walks down the grocery aisle to choose the products they sell?
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BINGO! Women primarily buy nearly all their products with a few exceptions (e.g., Duracell, Mach3).
How is it “all about me”? If you assume I’m a dad or even a male, well....... you prove the adage.
If I assumed incorrectly, I apologize. That will learn me, dern me. Take care.
How did this get so complicated? AAAAAAAAAAAAH! CALGON, TAKE ME AWAY!
Dad’s are the expendable donors.
White dads are also the buffoons and dolts in commercials. Who would want to target them when trying to sell anything???
I know, it hurts to first start finding out the truth.
It’s quite simple, really. The biggest fish in Wall Street (banking, investment banking, managing capital, etc.) are the super-wealthy family interests.
There’s an astounding UK-US tie that has always been under a news blackout.
Like the relationships regarding RIIA and CFR. Or the control exerted by the elite foundations. Elite influence over our university system. Healthcare. Capital investment. Government intelligence agencies. Etc.
Once you start to become aware of the true extent of the power of the financial elites (i.e., universities, foundations, news media, entertainment, science, the arts, finance, espionage, etc.), it’s the mother of all eye-openers.
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