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Have you seen the trailer for THE HOUSE starring Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler? The new comedy, which hits theaters June 30, looks hysterical!
After Scott and Kate Johansen (Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler) lose their daughter Alex’s college fund, they become desperate to earn it back so she can pursue her dream of attending a university. With the help of their neighbor Frank (Jason Mantzoukas), they decide to start an illegal casino in his house.
The comedy “The House” also stars Nick Kroll (“Vacation,” TV’s “Kroll Show”), Allison Tolman (TV’s “Fargo”), Michaela Watkins (TV’s “Transparent”), Ryan Simpkins (“Arcadia”), Jessie Ennis (TV’s “Veep” and “Better Call Saul”), Rob Huebel (“Horrible Bosses 2,” TV’s “Transparent”), Cedric Yarbrough (TV’s “Reno 911!”) and Oscar nominee Jeremy Renner (“The Town,” “The Hurt Locker,” “Arrival”).
While I don't have any personal stories as funny as opening a casino in my home, I do have experience with going overboard to fulfill my daughter's dreams (she's my old child, after all!). Last year my daughter told me that she wanted to go to London for her 13th birthday. It was her big wish and the one destination that she really wanted to visit. I played it off like there was no way that would ever happen, while secretly planning an epic birthday for her in Europe. I didn't just add England to the vacation, but Iceland, Ireland, and France... for 3 weeks!
I planned, scrimped and saved for more than 6 months to make her wish a reality, and my husband and I totally pulled it off. We didn't tell her about the trip until a few hours before our flight abroad!
Going the lengths that we did to celebrate her 13th birthday scares me a bit for the future though— Seriously, I'd do just about anything for that kid!
Have you ever gone to insane lengths to support the dreams of your child?
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Peter G says
I was a band parent and had to wear a sequined hat with a big feathers of the school colors. The band parents actually had a better time then the kids.
shelly peterson says
I cant think of anything too crazy. But of course I would do what ever was possible
Cheryl B says
I worked 60 hours a week for 6 weeks to pay for my son to attend a sports camp.
HilLesha says
I haven't done anything crazy yet, but I'm pretty sure there will be a time when that happens. 🙂
Zee says
I worked a ten hour day and then attended every baseball game my son had.
Jammie says
I don't think anything I do for my child is crazy, I think it's just parenting! I have stood in freezing cold weather though to get her certain items for Christmas.
mami2jcn says
I've gotten up early to take my son to EMS camp.
Ellie Wright says
I worked double shifts when my 3 boys were in Little League to pay for their uniforms and equipment.
Janet Woodling says
I sat outdoors in freezing rain ringing a cow bell during a state band completion. My husband & I were getting so wet that he went a bought us garbage bags the we cut out arm & neck holes a wore over our coats.
Birdie Skolfield says
I went into debt to enroll my daughter in a very elite dance school today she works for a computer co. ...but boy can she dance LOL
harold says
I ran a marathon to support them running it.
Richard Hicks says
We exceeded our budget when we got personal piano lessons for daughter
Gail Crawford says
cleaning homes
Jeanne Rousseau says
I quit my job to stay home and homeschool my son.
JSP says
Enter sweepstakes!
HS says
I've driven my kids out of the state for their games.
amy stonger says
I've advocated for my son on multiple occasions. He's extremely intelligent and oftentimes this leads to unrealistic expectations for him. This past year he was expected to read books at an 11th grade level, but he's only in 5th grade. I fought to have this adjusted so he could read books he actually enjoys.
Janet W. says
To support my daughter, I knocked on every single door in our neighborhood trying to help her sell gift wrap paper for a school fundraiser.
Adrienne Gordon says
Driven my daughter 5 hours for audition.
Crystal F says
I can't think of anything too crazy. I've spend 15 or 16 hour days on a softball field for the oldest.
Cynthia C says
Even though they are grown, I support my kids in any way I can. I don't think it's crazy at all.
Melissa says
we went on road trips to see bands concerts all the time! 🙂
April says
Nothing crazy yet but I'm due any day I'm sure lol
Madonna says
I can't think of anything that I did that was crazy.
Lisa Brown says
I've not done anything crazy, just did all I could at the time to support my kids goals.
Denise B. says
We always support our children, but we haven't gone out of our way to do anything crazy for just them. Anything we plan or do is always for all of us.
Julie Wood says
My kids wanted to go to a Space camp, but I did not have any money to send them. So I got a job standing out in front of a business handing out sales pamphlets and it was hard work and very cold outside! But, I made enough money to send my kids to camp!
Margaret Smith says
Looking forward to seeing this movie with my husband. The craziest thing that we've done for our kids is to sell some jewelry to buy our oldest son a bike when his was stolen a few years back. He was so heart broken.
latanya says
I worked two jobs to help with expenses
Theresa Jenkins says
Halloween is one of our fun times of the year with homemade costumes and decorations, my kids would always say I went a 'little' overboard and now that they have kids I'm the one laughing because their stuff is crazier then mine
Elena says
I had garage sales every weekend to get more money for my son's favorite summer camp
Kimberly Hilbert says
The only crazy thing I did was for one birthday I put all her presents under 144 balloons. It was a lot of fun. The other "crazy" thing is co-signing for her college loans.
Julia Barnes says
I don't have kids yet but my mom taught 60 5th graders how to disect a cow eye.
Sarah Hayes says
I havent done anything crazy yet
Jessica To says
I haven't done anything too crazy but I did ride some roller coasters that I didn't want to just because he wanted to try them.
Elle says
I have sewn a costume for a play from scratch.
Emily R. says
The craziest thing we've ever done for our kids is spend the day at the zoo on a rainy day!
paige chandler says
I did my daughters science project, My bad!
Ashley Horner says
I have not done anything considered too crazy, but I constantly scramble to make it to all my boys practices and games as possible. Most of the time at the expense of cleaning the house or cooking. Lots of eating out during football season especially
Jennifer W says
Waking up at 4;00am daily in order to pump breast milk.
G.Penrod. says
It looks like a fun movie
Rosie says
Teaching to sew, having her heart set on something too hard, I became a little "elf" that came out every night and secretly ripped out the mistakes and fixed everything. Amazingly, she never knew!
Linda Lansford says
If a crazy thing happen I have forgot what it was.
Natalie says
I do not have kids myself, but my mom went into a lot of debt so that my brother and I could each play 3 sports as children.
Susan Smith says
I took on a second job so my daughter could take dance lessons.
Steve Weber says
I do not have any children.
Tracy Shafer says
I haven't really done anything all that crazy....maybe buy all the candy so they could get the prize?
Deb Ford says
Nothing really crazy I can think of, but I support my kids in every way I can.
Edye says
I don't have any children...
cheryl s says
I just sent my son last semester to study for 3 1/2 months in Seville, Spain. He loved every minute, I was a nervous wreck but so glad he got to experience such a wonderful trip.
Kelly D says
I helped my daughter sell girl scout cookies this year to earn the prize she wanted.
Harry Knopp says
I once filled the family room with balloons from floor to ceiling.
nickie says
I once let our son draw on all the walls downstairs...that took a long time to clean up
Will G says
I don't have any children yet.
Dave Barr says
No Kids here just crazy LOL
doug g. says
I don't have a child, I just have a dog named Julia Child 🙂
beth shepherd says
I have bought them horses and continue to support that dream. Thank you
Laura Barnes-Schrillo says
Just working to support him
Amity J says
made some crazy halloween costumes over my 18 years of parenting
Kim Avery says
Nothing crazy I guess. I was the typical baseball/wrestling mom that drive them every where and did everything to help out.
Bryan Vice says
Craziest thing i have ever done is kiss my brothers foot so i could get tickets to sea world. lol He said if i did that he would give it to me.. and as nasty as i have feet i done it took my kids and they had a blast
Sarah L says
No kids so no story.
Thanks for the contest.
Rachel says
I can't think of a crazy story. I've gone to multiple stores during the Christmas season to find the gift that one of the kids wanted.
Barbara Montag says
The most I have done to help my kids is work a factory job that I did not like.
So we had a bit of extra money.
thank you
Thomas Murphy says
I have not done anything crazy yet.
Tami Vollenweider says
To me I always went overboard of the selling of their things ,that they had to sell while in school!
Wendy R. says
I have spent countless hours over the years doing projects, costumes, figuring out ways to pay for camps and trips, driving all over the place, and more for my kids. Worth it all!!
S. Whittle says
Nothing crazy but always there to support.
tammy shelton says
Moved to Florida so we could go to Disney World and beaches whenever we wanted to.
Chrissy says
At first I was going to say I haven't done anything crazy to support my daughter. Then as I thought about it, I realized that she's not even two yet and already signed up for soccer, gymnastics, swim lessons and piano lessons so maybe I already am going overboard...eek!
Keri Justice says
I'm the crazy loud parent who cheers really loud for their child in the stands!
sylvia says
Define crazy. haha. I can't say I've done anything crazy to support my kids- my kids are still young so I guess there is still plenty of time.
Susan Christy says
Bought VERY expensive baseball equipment and spent a ton of money traveling to tournaments.
Angela Thorpe says
I braved a 7 day campout with my daughters' class
heather says
We support the kids in all of their sports activities in the hot weather and in the snow.
BusyWorkingMama says
I volunteer at my daughter's school and I have lunch with her at school weekly.
Erica B. says
Nothing really crazy!
Ashley C says
I stayed up all night and sat in the car outside of a lock in so my husband would allow our daughter to attend!
Tina W says
Sewing all the costumes for a play with only 2 days notice. No fun, but the show went on!
susan smoaks says
i haven't ever gone overboard for my kids except maybe selling girl scout cookies, i like to sell the most.
Amber Cheras says
We sold our car and started walking everywhere instead to save money
S Riches says
I dyed a swimming pool pink for my daughter's birthday.
Lauren says
I have not done anything too crazy yet!
Kristen Joiner says
I don't have children myself but my mother did something similar to what you and your husband did. My parents saved and worked overtime and extra shifts to send me on a European trip when I was in high school. It was amazing! 🙂
kim brooks says
honestly nothing..yet...my daughter just turned 3 but I'm sure there will be plenty times to come
Nycole K says
I don't have a child but my mom did some seriously crazy things for me and my brother.
Dana Rodriguez says
No children here but I know some parents will do some crazy things!
Kyl Neusch says
Nothing crazy yet but I’m due any day I’m sur
amanda lea says
Rearranged schedules!! Changed vacay plans to make sure she could preform in events.
Anne Higgins says
Attend a night high school soccer game 65 miles from home and immediately drove the opposite direction for the next 8+ hours (napping in the car at a McDonalds) to have her on a volleyball court for the National tryouts by 8am.
Robin says
I helped my older son sell donuts for his school band fund raiser.
Angela Thorpe says
I worked 3 jobs in order to provide for her
Leela says
Nothing crazy, just normal parent stuff.
Tabathia B says
I planned their high school courses "with their help ofcourse"
Marilyn Nawara says
I sold over 200 subs to family and co-workers when my son was in grade school. He wanted to win a cheap $10 prize for having the highest sales. I ended up having to take a day off to deliver all the subs I sold.
Seyma Shabbir says
The craziest was to learn a dance to demonstrate it at international dance night LOL.
Julieh says
My kids have done my hair in some crazy ways.
Amber Hites says
Entered sweepstakes to win him awesome prizes!
tina reynolds says
I drove a very very very very long way to take my daughter to see taylor swift 😉
Lisa V. says
I wouldn't call it crazy, but when she was on a travel soccer team, I would drive all over the place to watch her.
Ed says
I dressed up as Gru!
Starla says
Once before I have gotten a full time day and night job so I could afford some extra activites that she loved doing. Now that I reflect back it definitely was crazy just because I as gone from 0600-1130pm everyday but it was totally worth it and after I was done I went back to my normal job.
Terry Cross says
I haven't done anything crazy
Tammie Venne says
The craziest thing was probably dressing in character to go see a movie
Cheryl says
Dress up as a pilgrim and intervene with a neighbor boy to keep peace among friends.
Sarah Hall says
We drove all over the area in the dark to find chicken feathers for a school project that we didn't know she had until that evening.
allison says
I went to a camping field trip with my daughter after working 16 hours. Thanks so much for the chances to win.
Anne Katz says
I crazy glued a halloween mask to my face
Erin M says
Stayed up long after he fell asleep to finish his science project.
Rosey says
The craziest thing I did to support my children was try to juggle three of the four in different sports at the same time. I was very tired. 😉
Rosey says
The craziest thing I did to support my children was try to juggle three of the four in different sports at the same time. I was very tired. 😉
Erin Daly says
We took our children to Athens and Rome after they became obsessed with Greek and Roman Mythology.
Kayla Klontz says
I have yet to do anything super crazy to support my children, but I would move the Earth for them, they're both toddlers, so i'm sure I'll have many stories to tell, but I will always let them do things for themselves as well because I wont always be there to do things for them.
Celeste Herrin says
The craziest thing I did to support my children was to go on the ski lift that I was absolutely terrified of. Not crazy to a lot of people, but it was crazy to me! I was scared stiff. I'm so afraid of heights. I thought I might pass out before I made it off there!
Janine Hwang says
I go crazy for my kids when I take them to the park and play on the playground
Julie Terry says
I guess the craziest thing I have ever done to support my child, was to sit in the front row at a concert she was singing in, so she could see me smiling at her, she has autism and terrible stage fright, so me sitting right up front, helped her get through the concert, even though I would have preferred to be in the back.
Cynthia Schmied says
I drove my daughter to philadelphia so she could hang out with a boy she met at church camp. Twice!
Jenny Scheldberg says
Driving her from play practice to chess meets on the same day in different cities.
Danielle Magee says
The craziest thing I ever did was to decide to let my daughter play on a hockey travel team that is 1 1/2 hours away.
sarah mayer says
I let my kids use my credit card for every day things.
Debbi Wellenstein says
If I ever did anything crazy for them, I don't remember. They are in their 40's, after all!
DanV says
Woke up early to reserve a spot for camp
Daniel Mihaliak says
I carried a 4 ft stuffed animal from Korea to the states
amanda whitley says
i have called out of work sick to take them to events they wanted to go to.
Breanna Pollard says
HAD A CHEERING SECTION FOR MY COUSIN'S GRADUATION.
Kelsey vinson says
As a teenager of 18 i walked to and from work to support my daughter because I didn't drive
Jerry Marquardt says
The craziest thing I do to help is to buy food when you know they are all going to be taken care of all day.
Samantha says
I became a stay at home mom to be around her more!
claudia davis says
I spend way too much money on gifts.
Kathy Pease says
I drove with my hubby long distances to see my sons basketball games..I have anxiety and his driving makes me so nervous
Wendy McBride says
Not really too crazy. Drove all 4 to 3 different schools and took care of them. Maybe they have made me partially crazy.lol
Breanne says
I don't have any children yet.
Anita Jude says
I don't know of anything too crazy just always helped it with his homework and things
Carolyn D says
I do not have any kids of my own, but I have a terrific nephew and we play with his Paw Patrol characters when he is here. He has quite an imagination.
S. Carter says
I do not have children.