As a parent, does the Army's "You make them strong, we make them Army strong"

Its up to personal perspective but the commercial nonetheless implies that they will "oneup" the parents. It could be a bother to hear them state that they can strengthen your child, in a way that you could never do. Which is a generalization, and not fact in every case...

I usually laugh at the Army commercials. I have a nephew who is in the Army and frankly the Army offers very little in the way of making boys into men. Now the Marine commercials...the few, the proud, the Marines...well now that is a good slogan. I have known many guys who came out of the Marines and were the most polite, respectable gentlemen around. There is something that the Marines has that the other branches don't have...and that is pride in being a Marine. In the Army they are called soldiers, the Air Force they are air men, and in the Navy they care called sailors, but in the Marines, they are Marines. If I had to choose a branch for myself or my children to go into it would be the Marines. Unless a Navy Seal is on the table..hehe...or the Army tenth mountain division. Those would be the only other acceptable options. You are not alone in feeling bothered by this commercial...because the Army is not about team it is about being an Army of One...I hated that slogan too.

it doesn't bother me. i don't care because honestly sometimes there are things and experiences that will help your child become stronger in ways we can't teach. those things can only be done through working with other people and learning on their own.

You aren't the only one! As a mom of 4 boys and a step son (I know, I know and two daughters and a step daughter and girls can join the Army tooo...) I don't care to be 'told' that I'm not raising them 'strong enough'. In fact I hope I am raising them strong enough to know that being part of a senseless war is no way to be a 'man' or make a positive influence on the world. I personally think that is better than "Army strong" so as far as I'm concerned the Army can stuff it....and I DO support our troops, I just think that many of them were recruited under false pretenses, find an old discussion of mine titled "why I hate Army recruiters" to understand why.

You can tell your husband that you are not the only one. That commercial pisses me off on multiple levels. The first implying my parenting isn't quite good enough. The second that proof of strength is signing away your personhood to go fight in some God-forsaken desert for an unclear goal, in a no end in sight war. I didn't labor my son for 12 hours, nurse him and sit through untold sleepless nights so he can 'liberate' people not interested being liberated or help Dubya prove something to his father or whatever the real reason is for this war.

No, you are not the only one bothered by this commercial. It pisses me off to no end. Who in this day and time, this Presidential administration in particular, would want their child to join the Army? I certainly would not. I don't think that shot at, killed and maimed are goals that Mother's have for their children. There are a lot better ways of proving strengths without the military way.

LOL you arent the only one!! I laugh when I see it because the Army has NOTHING on me when it comes to making my kids strong.....