Comments on: Addressing confusion between http://Obay.info and Obay Pills Posters in Canada

By: hypermodern

hypermodern — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:59:39 +0000

Here's the full disclosure from Colleges Ontario and a statement from Canadian Federation Of Students

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Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:29:52 +0000

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Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:47:16 +0000

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By: kathy M

kathy M — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:14:40 +0000

young people should have their own dreams and asperations

your advertizing is demeaning and negative towards young people

you might at well be saying do as I say not as I do

parents should learn to lead and give a good example

all behaveiour is a learned thing they see they do they here they repeat

how dare you try to take a persons asperations and hopes and dreams

away from them

Shame on you just how much money do you think you are going to make

of this.

In world that has a SHOPPERS DRUG MART ON EVERY CORNER AND DRUGS

ADVERTIZED ON EVERY BUS IN EVERY CITY.

WHAT ARE YOU MAKING OF OUR SOCIETY.

A PILL FOR EVERY ILL

CHILDREN NEED STRUCTURE AND CONSISTANCEY AND LOVE

SOMETHING YOUR PILL ISN’T GOING TO GIVE.

By: Alice

Alice — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:45:38 +0000

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2008/02/26/4877658-sun.html

It’s an ad campaign by a “Colleges Ontario”, to convince parents that college and university are equal. Being from the states, I don’t get it (Universities have several Colleges or a College stands alone, but the value of the education is not related to what your subgroup of academia is called).

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:18:12 +0000

Dear CFO and CEO Ippel

The future is yours. You should start your own church!

By: hypermodern

hypermodern — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:32:21 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Robert and Jane. If you are interested on a more positive association with the characteristics of ADHD, I recommend reading Thom Hartmann's book The Edison Gene ADHD and the Gift of the Hunter Child, where he writes

The impact of reframing our thinking extends far beyond those who have already been given labels such as ADHD or learning disability or hyperactivity. There are literally millions of children in America - perhaps tens of millions - who carry this gene and stand at an uneasy precipice: As a response to their failing or under-performing in school, they can be isolated and diagnosed and drugged, or they can be nurtured, inspired and brought to their full potential. (57)

I read this book in fall of 2004 when I was teaching at the Marin School of Art and Technology, and it gave me some insight on how to approach instruction.

By: Robert J. Veltri

Robert J. Veltri — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:14:16 +0000

In discussion with my lady Jane about the Obay ads on our transit system in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
” we find the ads challenge the negative parenting that has become the norm in todays society. We conclude that it is an advertisement that takes a knock at parents that are all to quick to medicate their children in the event of the first signs of hyperactivity (ie. ADHD). That it is easier to medicate a child rather than to let a child’s growing pains run its course. It is a direct poke at doctors that are all too quick to prescribe drugs rather than promote positive parenting skills and reinforce independent thinking.”
I personally love the ads since they are bringing a major social problem out in the open and challenging our thinking, our behaviour, and certain parents needs to control their children, by any means available.
This is simply and opinion, but I suspect one that makes good sense to anyone who advocate independent thinking and natural growth of the human body and spirit,

By: Dr. Steph

Dr. Steph — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:29:53 +0000

I found your Obay site due to my curiosity about the Obay ads on the TTC.

Your site is great. I’m going to win me some of that authentic Rideau Canal ice.