I am shocked that the children were allowed to be so very rude.

Anonymous wrote:Show me a stepmom that doesn't overstep or act callous towards her stepchildren and I'll then say something but my real life experience is that step mothers are either cruel or detached to their step kids or totally overstep their boundaries. It is painful to watch!

Did you ever consider that the detachment may be a reaction to rejection?

Can you imagine a heart-warming commercial with a stepmom joining a stepdaughter (and her mother) while picking out a wedding dress? Of course not. Because in most scenarios, it has been made abundantly clear to stepmothers to butt-out and NEVER take on a mother-like role.

If you try, you are vilified. If you don't, you are vilified. And you've prove it with your comment - they either overstep or are detached. There is no middle-ground for acceptance.

Keep this in mind before marrying, or remarrying, someone with kids.

Show me a stepmom that doesn't overstep or act callous towards her stepchildren and I'll then say something but my real life experience is that step mothers are either cruel or detached to their step kids or totally overstep their boundaries. It is painful to watch!

I didn't cry or even feel remotely moved. Saw the ending coming from a mile away.

Anonymous wrote:OP here--I think part of what gets to me is that Chris is just so hot in an average dad kind of way. He's like the perfect man for those of us at a certain age. The magic of TV!

The next installment of the commercial is going to be focused on hunky Chris' kids and how they loooove their stepmom. Not.

OP here--I think part of what gets to me is that Chris is just so hot in an average dad kind of way. He's like the perfect man for those of us at a certain age. The magic of TV!

^ Nice try but this juvenile joke isn't showing the stepmom in the same "heroic" parental role as the stepdad in the Publix commercial.

Anonymous wrote:I get a tear but it isn't because it is so wonderful but because it is so biased and I'm disappointed in Publix.

Society has somehow embraced the whole idea of marketing stepfathers as being wonderful, silent, long-suffering "heroes" who are suddenly, magically loved so much by the kids they get the honor of walking their stepdaughter down the wedding aisle or other happy-ending scenarios.

Now, point one single commercial, ad, ANYTHING that portrays a stepmother in the same light.

OK, I'm waiting,..

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I get a tear but it isn't because it is so wonderful but because it is so biased and I'm disappointed in Publix.

Society has somehow embraced the whole idea of marketing stepfathers as being wonderful, silent, long-suffering "heroes" who are suddenly, magically loved so much by the kids they get the honor of walking their stepdaughter down the wedding aisle or other happy-ending scenarios.

Now, point one single commercial, ad, ANYTHING that portrays a stepmother in the same light.

OK, I'm waiting,..

The dad is a widower and not divorced, but isn't the entire plot of the Sound of Music basically about a loving stepmom who comes into the kids' lives?

The movie is fiction. The real life story was a soon-to-be-nun marries a man for convenience in the 1920s, because she thought it was "God's calling" for her to raise the children. That is a far cry from the average modern day stepparent situation.

Anonymous wrote:I get a tear but it isn't because it is so wonderful but because it is so biased and I'm disappointed in Publix.

Society has somehow embraced the whole idea of marketing stepfathers as being wonderful, silent, long-suffering "heroes" who are suddenly, magically loved so much by the kids they get the honor of walking their stepdaughter down the wedding aisle or other happy-ending scenarios.

Now, point one single commercial, ad, ANYTHING that portrays a stepmother in the same light.

OK, I'm waiting,..

The dad is a widower and not divorced, but isn't the entire plot of the Sound of Music basically about a loving stepmom who comes into the kids' lives?

Anonymous wrote:Stepmom with Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon.

Nope. The entirety of this 25-year-old movie (!) is an example of how it was only through the angelic intervention of the dying mom that the "bad stepmom" was somewhat redeemed.

Anonymous wrote:I get a tear but it isn't because it is so wonderful but because it is so biased and I'm disappointed in Publix.

Society has somehow embraced the whole idea of marketing stepfathers as being wonderful, silent, long-suffering "heroes" who are suddenly, magically loved so much by the kids they get the honor of walking their stepdaughter down the wedding aisle or other happy-ending scenarios.

Now, point one single commercial, ad, ANYTHING that portrays a stepmother in the same light.

OK, I'm waiting,..

Obviously you've missed the whole "bonus mom" phenomena, but you know, anything to shit on dads on DCUM.

Stepmom with Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon.

I get a tear but it isn't because it is so wonderful but because it is so biased and I'm disappointed in Publix.

Society has somehow embraced the whole idea of marketing stepfathers as being wonderful, silent, long-suffering "heroes" who are suddenly, magically loved so much by the kids they get the honor of walking their stepdaughter down the wedding aisle or other happy-ending scenarios.

Now, point one single commercial, ad, ANYTHING that portrays a stepmother in the same light.

OK, I'm waiting,..

I love this and I have no experience with step parenting other than watching my son step parent his son.