Posted on 08/12/2018 7:32:33 AM PDT by DoodleBob
Staples 1996 Back to School commercial featuring a Christmas classic as the soundtrack, a happy parent, and glum kids.
And I remember that commercial.
It absolutely is!
One of the best. Gee, is it really that old? The commercials that air today have got to be produced by drug addled kids.
I believe they still run this commercial, it is a classic, I could have sworn I saw it last year or the year before.
In 1996 it was my Dad’s favorite commercial
Seems like it has to be perverted or retarded or it doesn’t get aired these days
The kids LUV it.
Back then our daughter was in grade school and she watched that commercial. When we were all out shopping and saw school supplies my wife and I would start signing that song and drive our daughter nuts. It was quite funny.
Great commercial from a time that is never coming back. Today, it would be about a gay, dark skinned Spanish-speaking muzzie bipolar left-handed vegan trannie with gluten allergies.
1996?
jeeezzzz.....seems like yesterday i saw that commercial.
That was 1996?!
I completely remember the ad, without even needing to click the link because I sill associate the music from it for this time of year more than Christmas because of it.
There's one running today in which all the parents are lined up to welcome the kids to school as they get off the bus. The message seems to be that kids have to cheered on in everything they do; basically the participation trophy mentality.
Great commercial - but - I personally feel the opposite. Maybe it’s because I didn’t get enough time with my father before it was all over, but I love spending as much time as I can with my kids.
There seems to be more time in the summer... But the truth is sometimes I wish the whole darned “system” wasn’t one in which, in order to afford a house, parents get only a few hours a day with their kids.
Thanks to Women’s Liberation now both parents work, and the kids have the advantage of daily indoctrination by bored, self-important homosexuals.
We’ve played “Stars and Stripes Forever” for our kid on the first day of school ever since second grade. Whether she likes it or not.
This year? SURROUND SOUND.
At the same time, I suspect many parents truly are happy to be RID of their children come September. These are likely the same pro-abortion parents who send their kids off to camp all summer and vote for confiscatory rates of taxation so the government can do THEIR JOB, be it in the realm of education or morality. These parents are truly loathsome.
As for enhancing the parent-child bond via more time and to avoid the indoctrination that infects "educators" of all shapes and sizes and predelictions, have you considered homeschooling? It is not a panacea - I speak from experience - and many times situations truly preclude that pathway, but looking back on what Mrs DoodleBob and I achieved, it was worth not being invited to the club because our cars averaged 150,000 miles on their odometers (the other parents probably also though we were nuts).
Those two frowning kids had murder in their eyes.
Hmm...they’re both pushing thirty now.
Oh, i can relate. Back in the 1970s when i was in grade school a local store (not a staples, just a small independent store) that sold school supplies, had a back to school sale close to the end of every summer vacation. I hated school with a red hot passion and so whenever i happened to be walking past the store when it was near the end of my summer vacation, i dreaded seeing their big “back to school” sales posters up in their windows.
And then when it came time to buy school supplies inside the store, my mother would take me and I’d spot many familiar faces of my schoolmates who were also accompanying their mothers who were also there for the same reason: to buy school supplies. I recall they all looked sad and sullen. Not a single happy face among my schoolmates. They were all miserable as i was at buying school supplies. At being reminded that summer vacation was almost over and school was about to begin again.
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