Well, I did it again.......

[IADad]

So, last night, I'm watching some Disney channel with my kids and an ad comes on "thanking moms for what they do everyday...fight stains."

Now, for the veterans here, yes, I know I'm fighting a loosing battle and making a big deal out of nothing. But I think this is a little different, when they are sending a message directly to my kids. I think the message I sent them below conveys it best:


"It's not really a complaint about your product, it's about your advertising. I can't believe that on a disney chanel, you catually put an ad out to "thank MOMs for what they do every day."
I have no problem with you marketing to moms, I understand they buy more of your product than men, but I do have a problem with you communicating to my children that "laundry is women's work." What decade is this? If you wanted to appeal to parents could you not have said "thanks parents?"
I've purchsed your carpet care products before and liked them, but I'm hesitant to support his kind of marketing.
I'm disappointed.?

 

[Xero]

Wow I just do not agree with all of that. We don't watch a whole lot of cable, mostly Netflix, but still commercials never cease to amaze me. Seriously, like moms are the only people that do laundry?! Wow!! I'm glad you complained to them. This kind of thing has just got to change!!

 

[mom2many]

I never even watch commercials I am a channel surfer, much to everyone's annoyance LOL. So for me, it's not an issue, honestly how many people really do watch the commercials? But I have said this before................very little 'gets' to me. Although I do have my hills to doe on.

 

[bssage]

I like to get my stereotypes from Budweiser and Victoria Secret commercials.

 

[IADad]

I like to get my stereotypes from Budweiser and Victoria Secret commercials.

me too, and Hardees...

but that's the point, I don't care (as much) if they want to do sterotype marketing to adults, but when they put it on kids TV and gear the message to the kids, that's where I think they need to change.

 

[MomoJA]

I'm with you on commercials, but not just because they are stereotypical. On children's channels they also promote superficiality, materialism, rudeness, and everything I want to avoid with my child.

Sadly, my daughter has outgrown NickJr which has no commercials, and PBSKids only comes on during weekdays. Those Disney shows also promote stereotypes and rude, sassy behavior.

Can you get netflix without a wii?

 

[IADad]

I'm with you on commercials, but not just because they are stereotypical. On children's channels they also promote superficiality, materialism, rudeness, and everything I want to avoid with my child.

Sadly, my daughter has outgrown NickJr which has no commercials, and PBSKids only comes on during weekdays. Those Disney shows also promote stereotypes and rude, sassy behavior.

Can you get netflix without a wii?

Well, she can watch netflix on a computer, not sure how practical that might be for you. Some blu-ray players can connect, some HD tvs (if they are wifi capable, A Roku box, is about $50 and you can stream anything from your computer...then it's a question of, if you're inclined to get a wii someitme, do you want to duplicate hardware. You can get a wifi adapter for your tv also for about $50...all this assumes you already have a wifi router setup....(or can steal your neighbor's signal...)...on a smartphone/ ipda is another option.

but if you don't have any of those things, then on the computer would be the only way without a hardware investment of some kind. $50 might be worthwhile...

 

[Xero]

You can use an Xbox, a Wii, a PS3, a computer and a blu ray player. Possibly other things lol. I agree about Disney Channel, they encourage such rotten attitudes in kids. So annoying.

 

[parentastic]

Can you get netflix without a wii?

Try a boxee box.

 

[IADad]

Try a boxee box.

wow, that's pretty cool. Seems like it does the things I've wanted that are keeping me from trying to wathc TV from the internet, namely how do you find the content easily.

i wonder if they have a money back guarantee if I bought it but didn't end up liking it. (I see you can build it yourself too ...interesting.)

 

[stjohnjulie]

Those Disney shows also promote stereotypes and rude, sassy behavior.

I am SO there with you on that MomoJA! When my son first started watching Disney I was surprised at the shows. I thought Disney was going to be a little more 'magical' than that. Lots of the kids in the shows are sassy and disrespectful to each other. We had to ban the channel for a couple of years because it was giving oldest son the wrong ideas about what is funny in a real life situation.

As far as commercials... I have to say I am one of the unusual people who enjoy commercials, and infomercials. I watch them with my son and we talk about them. I point out the ridiculousness of them when it's called for. We like to laugh when they show people making a simple task look impossible (like cooking pasta). And there are also so really amazing ads out there. I think that it is a pretty tough task to 'sell' someone on something in less than 30 seconds. Even though a lot of ads have a specific target, I think my oldest doesn't have a problem seeing past the target group. If he sees an amazing laundry commercial, he'll say "we should get that for King" Since he is the one who usually ends up with that task.

 

[MomoJA]

And there are also so really amazing ads out there. I think that it is a pretty tough task to 'sell' someone on something in less than 30 seconds.

You are right about that. When I went to art school, we would watch the CLIO awards in class. I think you can probably find them youtube. It recognizes clever commercials from around the world. There really is an art to it and some of those ads are better than most movies out there.

 

[ElliottCarasDad]

wow, that's pretty cool. Seems like it does the things I've wanted that are keeping me from trying to wathc TV from the internet, namely how do you find the content easily.

i wonder if they have a money back guarantee if I bought it but didn't end up liking it. (I see you can build it yourself too ...interesting.)

There is also WD TV Live Plus
I use Tivos which have access to Netflix, Hulu, etc.

 

[IADad]

okay, so I'm about ready to pull the plug on satellite etc...it's just so confusing what to switch to and how will the user experience be on each box in the house...this is a major change, from "what's on?" to "what do you want to watch?" I'd always thought going and getting it would be the hassle, but you guys are showing me the interface is more friendly than I'd imagined. Probably need to go to a store and touch some of this stuff and get a feel for what it does...sorry, hun, gotta go do some "research."

 

[IADad]

I am SO there with you on that MomoJA! When my son first started watching Disney I was surprised at the shows. I thought Disney was going to be a little more 'magical' than that. Lots of the kids in the shows are sassy and disrespectful to each other. We had to ban the channel for a couple of years because it was giving oldest son the wrong ideas about what is funny in a real life situation.

As far as commercials... I have to say I am one of the unusual people who enjoy commercials, and infomercials. I watch them with my son and we talk about them. I point out the ridiculousness of them when it's called for. We like to laugh when they show people making a simple task look impossible (like cooking pasta). And there are also so really amazing ads out there. I think that it is a pretty tough task to 'sell' someone on something in less than 30 seconds. Even though a lot of ads have a specific target, I think my oldest doesn't have a problem seeing past the target group. If he sees an amazing laundry commercial, he'll say "we should get that for King" Since he is the one who usually ends up with that task.

I know those info-mercials and ads that show people having the most difficult, slicing a bagel, or squeezing a lemon...

Right now, 90% of our ads are Republican candidate ads, that'll be over soon.

As for Disney, I was thinking the tone of disney productions was something new, but tak a close look at some old disney favorties still being produced today... I kind of cringe when I look at how "Goofy" is presented, a dumb guy who sounds dumb...pluto gets treated cruelly, professor von drake's syntax is all messed up, so it's still okay to make fun of non-english speakers....I know I'm looking at it overly critically, but really, is that okay?

 

[IADad]

oh, and the english usage is pretty awful sometimes as well...

 

[Antoinette]

We have a show in Australia called "the gruen transfer" it is an entire show about adds, thy break them down and talk about them and sometimes they have to make their own. It is harder than it looks lol

 

[shanequA]

Disney is fer kids, why is you watching kids shows?