Using your post for a SLIDE.
There is a commercial on TV where a child does not want to eat her broccoli. The mother tells her no one is leaving the table until she eats the broccoli.
This child then says “Fine! We’ll ALL stay here all night,”.
The mother in the commercial then covers the broccoli in cheese and it saves the day.
Me? This commercial pisses me off big time!
I’d be like I don’t THINK so girl, YOU will be here all night, everyone else will be in bed….
Since when do children run the household? Eat the damn broccoli!
If I had mouthed off to my parents like that I would have been flying backwards out of my chair before I could blink.
This child then says “Fine! We’ll ALL stay here all night,”.
The mother in the commercial then covers the broccoli in cheese and it saves the day. Me? This commercial pisses me off big time!
I’d be like I don’t THINK so girl, YOU will be here all night, everyone else will be in bed….
Since when do children run the household? Eat the damn broccoli!
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OMG it pisses me off, too. However, as a child of 6, I did run the household one night, when my mother made pinto beans and I refused to eat them.
My dad said, “Fine, we’ll sit here until you take a bite.”
Only it was more heated than that lol. Well, I won. We sat there until 9? I went to bed the hungry winner.
Most of the time, I was just sent to bed lol.
But you are right, there was no catering to our whims.
I’m so annoyed by commercials these days. The Eggo waffle one, with the two moms and the little girl refusing to put her pants on is another one. Continually shoving demented behavior in our faces. Oh the other one is some new tv show about a female or all gal singing group getting back together. That one is annoying.
The dad is dumb, we don’t need men anyway, mom is the hero, kids are in charge, everyone is gay.
Petey
I hear you. Such commercials appeal to the current crop of parents who have abdicated their roles as leaders and let the children run the show. Parents command no respect from their children. Sad state of affairs.
“Since when do children run the household?”
My friend spent a few days with her daughter and three young granddaughters. The 11-year-old runs the home. I think that may change soon. I hope.
And I’m with you; that commercial pisses me off, too. First, we were glad to have food (poor country preacher). And Mom certainly wasn’t going to prepare anything special if we didn’t like something.
I recall that I hated “SOS”. It made me gag (literally) to look at it. The only accommodation I got was that I could eat the other food of the meal alone at the kitchen table. And that wasn’t for me. They just didn’t want puke on the dining room table.
Second, “smarting off” would’ve been a life-ending event. And that wasn’t limited to words. An eye-roll ... No. Nope.