This Commercial Says We
Are Doomed
Based on a recent commercial I have seen, what they will find is scary. They will see the beginning of the end of
civilization as we know it.
The commercial
I am referring to is a commercial for a washing machine.
A father is
seen running with a teddy bear. He is panicked. He is yelling to his wife as you hear a
crying baby in the background.
“Quick, I spilled coffee on Pookey,
start the special quick wash cycle on our new ‘Clean-e-clean’ washing machine!”
“Did you give her the
back-up Pookey?”
“This is the back-up Pookey!”
They then
demonstrate why the new ‘Clean-e-clean’ washing machine is so fast and good.
Mom grabs
the now clean Pookey and races toward the sound of the crying baby, as the dad
yells,
“Hurry, and don’t let her see the
fear in your eyes.”
Is this vignette
in today’s parenting even a little bit accurate? Is it supposed to be funny?
I think it
is child brutality. Catering to an
infant in this way, coddling a baby to the point that you are in fear of having
that child being upset or disappointed for even a minute is child abuse. Beating and severely punishing a
child is liable to send a sociopath into society, what kind of person is this
abuse going to produce?
It is going
to produce a wimpy, spoiled, self-important brat. It will produce a generation of people who
expect everything to come easy, who do not know difficulty or disappointment, a
generation that expects hand-outs, free everything, and expects others to
deliver all the free everything on a platter.
It is going to produce a generation of miserable, annoying unhappy
dependent losers.
Years from
now the survivors of this cataclysmic parenting will try and reconstruct
history.
“It looks like a gigantic meteor hit
and volcanic activity destroyed the giant reptiles that used to roam the earth. I wonder what happened to the humanoids that
later dominated the planet?”
“Wait, I think I’ve found something. Look at
this old video of what appears to be an advertisement for a washing machine.”
“OMG, what a horror! An unseen infant seems to be the boss and is
calling all the shots. Look at the fear,
the terror in what appears to be the parents of this monster.”
“This is terrifying, what must have
happened when a generation of these infants grew up?”
“Oh the humanity!”
AMEN!!
ReplyDeleteIf that was the back-up Pookey, why isn't the first Pookey already washed and drying?
ReplyDeleteFoolish parents; just hand the child a different stuffed toy. I don't remember ever, EVER running around in frantic panic like that.
As my Pappy used to say, "You stop that or I'll give you something to cry about."
ReplyDeleteCuriously enough, I never wanted to find out what that "something" was.
Basically babies don't give a shit which toy they have or even if they have a toy at all. They want to be clean, warm and loved and then, sometimes, they STILL cry, it's what they do, no need for all the drama. I worry about parents who impose dependency on a toy, I've seen them do it, NO idea why they would want to do that. He/she can't sleep without it etc - it's simply not true until the child learns that it must be true from the parent. I want my children to be dependent on me not a stuffed toy but I want them to be independent too.
ReplyDeleteThese are the same parents who put condoms in their teen's Christmas stockings and serve alcohol to their kids's friends at grad parties.
ReplyDeleteAnd some get busted...
DeleteI believe a lot of parents are wimps. Fortunately, a lot more aren't.
ReplyDeleteI don't think this commercial is intended to be taken seriously, but I do recall a time when our toddler's precious sweater was accidentally taken at a restaurant. It took quite a while for the tears to stop---my wife's tears.
ReplyDeleteIt's too late, this has already happened. Look around. Just saying.
ReplyDeleteHave a fabulous day. ☺
Heaven forbid if they had a cat.
ReplyDeleteThey are all around us but luckily for now, they don't look up from the screen in their palm long enough to be a threat.
ReplyDeleteHey, Uncle Skip, leave my cat out of this . . . oh, wait, . . . he's crying over an empty food dish. I'll be right back.
ReplyDeleteperfect summation. :)
ReplyDeleteScary the kind of kids we are turning out.
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ReplyDelete“The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.”
― Socrates
I hate that commercial for another reason. Those actors are too well-known (to me, anyway) to be believed as a couple with a baby. It was cute way back in the day when Mariette Hartley and James Garner pretended to be a couple in those Polaroid commercials. Now, not so much.
ReplyDeleteAs parents, you want your child to be happy. But you also need to raise them to be capable of dealing with frustration. That's life.
ReplyDeleteMy kids were raised with love and a good dose of Vitamin N.
(Vitamin N = "No")
I got that vitamin from my first wife a lot!
DeleteMy kids too, Betina, and they've turned out to be fine adults because of it.
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