Fallon Asks Us to Ask Our Moms What’s In His Head

Steve Hall

Nov. 25, 2006
1 min read

It’s no secret we like self-deprecating humour in part because that’s half the work done for us, so we couldn’t help warming to the print campaign for Juicing the Orange, Pat Fallon’s new creativity-oriented business book.

Toying with the defining moment in which a doe-eyed child looks up at mom and asks where babies come from, to which mom immediately spits out an improbable lie, Fallon’s print ads add citrusy twist to a domestic nightmare and lend the sense that irreverent ideas remain good medicine for the changing threads of business. Check out variations hither and thither. – Contributed by Angela Natividad

Steve Hall

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I spent twenty-three years driving my kids to every practice, helping with every homework assignment, and showing up to every recital — and now they’re millennials in their thirties who text me on my birthday two days late, and I’m sitting here wondering if I raised them to need me or just to use me

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I inherited my father’s watch when he died and I wore it every day for a year before I noticed the band had been repaired three times in different leather and I realized he never once replaced something he could fix — and I’m starting to understand that was his entire philosophy for everything including his marriage

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A clinical psychologist explains that forgiveness isn’t the final stage of healing from a difficult parent. The final stage is indifference, the day you think of them and feel nothing, and most people mistake that numbness for coldness when it’s actually completion.

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I’m 65 and I raised three millennial children who are kind, hardworking, and successful by any measure — but they don’t call unless they need something, and I’m starting to realize that maybe I taught them independence so well that I made myself optional

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Fallon Asks Us to Ask Our Moms What’s In His Head

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A clinical psychologist explains that forgiveness isn’t the final stage of healing from a difficult parent. The final stage is indifference, the day you think of them and feel nothing, and most people mistake that numbness for coldness when it’s actually completion.

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I’m 65 and I raised three millennial children who are kind, hardworking, and successful by any measure — but they don’t call unless they need something, and I’m starting to realize that maybe I taught them independence so well that I made myself optional

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