The Mother's Day and therefore I want to show you a video that is going around the world these days, related to the "work" of the mothers and the London Olympics this year.
The video is an advertisement by P&G, a multinational that has brands as well known to us as Ariel, Duracell or Gillette, to give some examples, and who wanted to say that A mother's job is the best job in the world.
The video achieves what is proposed, which is to excite the viewer, who is carried away by the brief stories of several children who come to show that with much effort (getting up in the morning when others sleep) and work can become who dream and yearn (supposed): to be Olympic champions.
It is clear that Mother there is only one, and it is a magical moment to see that a mother gives everything for the good of her children and to see that the children, in the end, thank their mothers for having always been there.
However, I wonder: I know it's an ad about mothers, but where are the parents? Is it that parents don't deserve our recognition too? Couldn't they have said "thanks mom and dad"?
Moreover, seeing it from the current perspective of society, where staying at home to take care of the children means “going back to do what our mothers and grandmothers did” as if that were wrong or was a brake on the development of women as a person (because it seems that a woman or a man grows up as people just working and cultivating their extra-family interpersonal relationships), the video looks like an ode to machismo or neomachismo, the one who, hidden behind the upbringing with attachment, behind the defense of breastfeeding and behind the fight for longer maternal casualties, is trying to push back women by putting them back home (they say, of course, no whether a mother will find it stimulating to raise her child and decide for herself to quit work.)
I don't see it that way, really, because mothers have always done hundreds of things for their children and will surely continue doing them. I don't see it that way because I think so, that being a mother is the best job in the world, just like being a father also seems to me the best job in the world. In fact, I wish I could work more as a father than as a paid worker, to be more with my children and perhaps earn a position in this type of videos.
Being a mother is to acquire a responsibility for life, is to love without expecting anything in return, is to give a piece of you every day for your children, is to have constant worries the rest of your days, is ... I don't know, it's so many things. There are better days and worse days, this is clear to us all, but everything happens when they give you a hug, when they give you a kiss or when they simply make you laugh with their games, their stories and ultimately with their lives entwined with our.
And being a father, it is the same as being a mother, or it should be. I I look forward to one day making a similar video with parents. Meanwhile, tell you that I was very excited about this video.
Video | Youtube
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