to fucking hate that guilt inducing advert with the excited children going to disney?

[PyrotechnicsAtYourCervix]

I could never afford to take mine so could never give them that amazing, exciting, happy feeling which appears to be the best thing you could ever give your children. I am a failure as a parent.

Thanks Disney you Bastards.

Next time you see it, just thank your lucky stars that you aren't the pushy show off mum who corrects her kids when they say "we're going to Disneyland!" with "Disneyland Florida, in America!" just to let everyone know EXACTLY how much they are spending on their DC.

You might be skint, but at least you aren't a prat

'The magic starts the minute you tell them'!! I would imagine 'the misery starts the minute you get the bill. Another failed parent here

oh come on. disneyland isn't the be all and end all.

i've never been there, neither have my kids and I have no desire to take them either.
it's JUST a place, not some magical dreamland... really

they're clearly doing their work with the marketing though for you to feel like you've failed simply by not taking your kids to an overpriced theme park!

I'm not taking mine either but I still like seeing the excited faces on the hugely manipulative advert. Mine get just as excited about our summer holiday - in Scotland!

We never went to Disneyland as children, it didn't harm us. :)

disney are indeed bastards, but not about this. It's just advertising. There are loads of things advertised that I will never be able to afford.

A flash car
a posh kitchen
Hell, a brand new suite from bloody dfs!

it's just tough shit, basically.

I never went to Disneyland. I didn't care. Neither does my sister.

I don't get why it's supposed to be the most exciting thing ever in the history of childhood

Once we went to Legoland, that was brilliant. Oh and the pretend sleepovers my sister and I used to have on our bedroom floor, with a secret stash of sweets we'd bought little by little on the way home from school day by day, those are one of my best childhood memories. And Christmas tended to inspire an amazing, exciting, bubbling over feeling of happiness.

Are you this affected by all adverts? If so I suggest you change channel or switch off the TV.

YANBU to hate the advert but YABU to take it so bloody seriously.

They are trying to make you buy their thing. So they will try to convince you that your life will be better if you do buy the things, and/or that your life will be worse if you do not buy the thing. That's what adverts DO.

PiousPrat Yes-that Mum who has to mention America!! It really grates my carrot. Not going to the rubbish Disneyland in Paris then

YANBU to hate the advert.
YABU to feel guilty because your children haven't been.

Feel guilty if you have never taken them to the park, never played conkers, never done dressing-up or never done 1001 other play things. But feeling guilty because you haven't bought some overpriced holiday marketed by Mr Disney? Get real.
Look how excited the children get in MacDonalds adverts - are chicken nuggets really that exciting? No.
Neither is Disney.

I hate that advert too.

Don't feel guilty for goodness sake.

My DCs would love to go, and we might be able to afford it. But have no desire to - surely that makes me a rotten old meanie . I don't feel guilty

I would find chicken nuggets more exciting that Disney

The problem is that we all know Disneyland is an overpriced holiday marketed by Mr Disney but the children don't. I don't feel guilty for not taking them, just that they have to see the advert where it all looks so exciting.

Dp's grandparents did the whole "if you could go anywhere in the world for your holiday, where would it be?"
Answer: "Disneyland."
Grandparents: "Well, SURPRISE, we're taking you and your cousins there tomorrow morning!!!" thing.

Trouble was, when they asked him where he'd like to go, his response was "Kenya," so Disneyland was actually a bit of a disappointment!

Apparently, he found the Disneyland experience actually quite boring, anyway- and he was only about 8 at the time, so the perfect age it's aimed at. Don't feel a failure for not going!

I would never take mine, don't buy into it!

I think the most important thing you can give your children is a sense of safety in their own home, the fact that they know they are loved (this gives them confidence) and that you are there for them, whatever.

materialistic disney crap.

I may have too much imagination, but I always imagine the dreaded flight to Disney being delayed, luggage lost, nasty surcharges in the hotel and rip off food everywhere, kids hyperactive on radioactive candy, long queues and everything fake and made of plastic.

magic my arse.

God, I must be the saddo who watches that advert and thinks
" I need to take my kids to Disneyworld- In Florida"
Only because I've been to Florida and Disneyworld loads of times and can't wait to take my children.
My son is 3 though and he doesn't know where Disneyworld is or Florida so it's more about me really.
And it is that good.

Sparkling I am obviously a baaaad mother. Mine used to get a lecture about the evils of marketing and things aren't as portrayed ...

We went to Disneyland as children. It was ok but it was nowhere near as good as the farm holidays in wales we went on where we could collect eggs, ride horses and quad bikes and jump off big stacks of hay bales.

We loved that FAR more.

I could possibly afford to take mine to Disneyland in Paris - never looked at how much it would cost. I won't be either, because Disney is crap.

Don't worry, there's more to life and childhood that over priced commercialised shite!

If you say "I am a failure as a parent" because you can't afford to go to Disneyland, what does that make people who can afford to take their children to Disney but choose not to?

We went by Eurostar to Paris and at the station were given a Disneyland pack by a person who's employed to go around spotting children and assuming that's where they're going

I went when I was 12 and I remember having to queue TWO HOURS per ride!

I went before we had children . To Disneyland California-in America I spent one day there and would have been happy to never see Mickey Mouse and Co ever again. I was all Disneyed out-and remain so to this day. The boys can go when they can go on their own. At the moment they would prefer a tour of Anfield

Well, i'm not taking mine because it looks like my idea of hell and it's my holiday too. Kids can make do with Peppa Pig World (they loved that). Can't be better than the Dyreparken in Norway which was probably the most fun I've had ever (and I was 36).

Sparkling 'it really grates my carrot' is my new favourite sentence, thanks