Six weeks into being unemployed, Charlie and Phil sit on a park bench together supervising their sons on the playground. Men’s gender-based expectations for themselves are difficult to shake (even for the enlightened ones).
Soon, they demonstrate that they’re capable of running a successful day care business. They’re all guys!Ĭharlie and Phil don’t let the doubters dissuade them from trying.
MOTHER 2: I just thought it was a clever name! And Phil’s wife doubts the business will last any longer than three days! Prospective customers are scandalized by the ‘Daddy Day Care’ concept: “This is crazy on ten different levels!” is how Charlie’s wife responds to his idea of starting a day care center. (Cash remains king with the unruly child.)
They gradually realize they need to prepare activities to stimulate the kids’ minds and provide nutritious food for them to eat. On Day 1 of opening Daddy Day Care, Charlie and Phil have no planned activities, no nutritious food for the kids to eat, and their method for gaining cooperation from an unruly child is to bribe him with cash. “It’s not rocket science,” he says confidently, right before he accidentally knocks his 4-year-old’s head into a wall. We underestimate the difficulty of childcare.Ĭharlie has not been a very involved father, and he underestimates how difficult it will be to take care of several kids at once. Please join our email list for once-a-week updates on our latest content. For a real-world example of a Peggy, learn about Cassie Jaye’s story. Sometimes one woman speaking up for men makes a bigger impact than ten men speaking up for themselves. Peggy’s advocacy for the men saves the day. PEGGY: Come on ladies – you’re troubled by them being guys? Are you from the dark ages? Aren’t you for gender equality and all that jazz? Peggy signs up her son, and then other moms follow suit. Women make great allies for men’s equality.Īs Charlie and Phil flounder in their efforts to register kids for Daddy Day Care, a woman named Peggy steps forward to vouch for the concept of a day care run by men. In the case of the guy who said “LOSERS!”, his own life circumstances are not enviable: his wife is joyless, vain, and a bad mother, and his son is disobedient. Often these men are dealing with their own insecurities. Men who insult men whose actions defy traditional gender roles should be ignored. Later, an ex-colleague from their corporate job reacts this way to Charlie and Phil becoming preschool teachers: “You’re wiping boogers for a living? LOSERS!” In the beginning, when Charlie and Phil are starting up a day care, a man scoffs at the concept: “Wow, good luck with that.”Ĭharlie responds, “Hey wait a minute, don’t you believe in equality of the sexes?” Phil adds, “Yeah, can’t men do everything women can?” The man, holding his son’s hand, responds, “No, we can’t.
Perhaps viewers are uncomfortable with its progressive messages about gender roles…which leads us to the first of seven important lessons from Daddy Day Care.
#EDDIE MURPHY KIDS AGES MOVIE#
With ratings of 5/10 on IMDB and 48/100 on Rotten Tomatoes, this movie doesn’t get the love it deserves. Daddy Day Care is a comedy from 2003 about two friends, Charlie Hinton (Eddie Murphy) and Phil Ryerson (Jeff Garlin), who start a day care after being laid off from their corporate jobs.
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