So driving along and in amongst the usual mother's day adverts there was an Olay one.
It starts off quite blandly with a list of things the little girl was going to give her mum 'I made you a card but the hearts dropped off' and then there is the last line 'so I got you some Olay, so your skin can be perfect, even though your daughter isn't' 
to suddenly hear this melancholy little voice telling her mum she knows she isn't perfect was quite jarring.
Now I know my children aren't 'perfect' but they are perfect to me. I always want them to know that their thoughtfulness and effort is appreciated - the results may not have been Tate gallery standard but so what? It is important to me for them to feel that I am always in their corner, that they as people are more than enough and I will always love them for who they are because that is perfect for them. And gift wise the thought does count - I will be happier with half a card of sticky macaroni (perhaps not at 18 but still) that has a crayon scrawl of 'mumy I luve yoo' than a tub of fucking Olay shit because it's better than handmade 'crap'.
Or aibu to think fuck off Olay ad person, perfect is as perfect does?