Which is better? "The Best Job" or "Pick Them Back Up?"

6 Comments

  • Kim - 10 years ago

    It feels like the 2012 video is the kids doing what they want, vs the new video is the kids being forced into a " career" from birth. This happens a lot in the Olympics and is tragic - the kids living the life their parents want. It's stressful instead of fun.

  • Frankline Mardi - 10 years ago

    These commercials are nice. I agree, what about the fathers? and what about the siblings? I'm sure the journey is a lot more complicated than that. It would be so heartwarming to get to see the whole picture. I'm sure a lot of the olympics competitors grew up with the support of both their parents if they had both and so why not show that? How their parents, sisters, grandmother, teacher, friend. someone helped them and supported them along the way, not just their mothers. Some maybe didn't even have the support of their mothers! I would really love that story shown. It would help a lot more people to see themselves in that commercial.

  • jasmine bureau - 10 years ago

    I think they should make a video for fathers and not only the mothers. I think dads give us as much as our moms does. They should the thanked as well.

  • Peter Clark - 10 years ago

    I would have been much more impressed if the focus was on the "Family", as was stated in a previous comment the contributions of the Father, and family members is not recognized. As they say it takes a village to raise a child or in this case an Olympian.

  • Andrew Sherwin - 10 years ago

    Great commercials.

    Just dissapointing that P&G didn't think to include even a couple snippets about para-sport athletes and their moms. Guess what - they grow up and succeed and make it to the Paralympics...

    I think they in many ways these parents put in way more effort and deserve as much if not more credit and appreciation.

  • Walter van Veen - 10 years ago

    Both are fantastic and really capture the contribution of parents in a heart warming way, however like so much mainstream television advertising, the fathers are invisible or the husbands/fathers are made to look ridiculous. Why P&G focuses on only one-half of the parents is beyond me.

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