How sad is it when you can go to Wal*Mart, point at any popular item and your kid can sing you the themesong?

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or slogan?

Answer 1

Sad lol Or quote commericals And my kids are not glued to the tv.

My grandma fell and broke her hip she is 87. I took the kids to go see her in the hospital. My daughter looks at My Gram and says ,

" All seniors citizens should have life alert" I said ohhh you dont know what that is........ ( she is 6) Said yeah I do mommy that's what old people need to have when they live alone in case they fall so people can be called for them...... Later that night I saw the commerical on tv....

EDIT: To the ones that said to turn off the electronic babysitter, OH PLEASE. Get off your high horse. My daughter watchs Dora and educational shows while I cook dinner and on sundays. We are out and about or they are at school most of the time. I am not going to forbid my child from watching TV what little time she has to do so.

She learns, spanish words, meanings, shapes sounds, about different animals, ect. TV can be a great learning tool as well. Its not a baby sitter when she is 10 feet from me.

Answer 2

Mine watches MAYBE 30-60 minutes of TV per day, sometimes not at all. The weekend mornings is her time to chill and catch up on the toons while we sort laundry in our jammies. But danged if she can't remember a commercial jingle after one viewing. And not just Barbie/skittles/soda/junkfood. She knows Prilosec (not a commercial found on Disney channel), Auto jingles, and has given my grandmother (her greatgrandmother) the Life Alert sales pitch also.

She thinks it's funny that I'm so appalled at her ability to recite commercials. She's a year and a half ahead in reading, loves art and books, is an orange belt in ju-jitsu... not a child raised by TV in the least. So I don't want to hear any self-righteous CR*P from the parent police about kids watching TV too much. I agree with the comment above - the advertisers are smart, and our kids are sponges.

All we can hope for is to help them filter all the information they take in, and make good decisions. Like not asking for every single freaking Barbie they come out with just because it was on TV. :)

Answer 3

TV! It's in their brains! This shows you the power of the advertiser.

I'm no lunatic (I think). I watch some TV, although I'm trying to reduce my hours per week. At my age, I can see the techniques that advertisers use to get you on their side, to get you thinking that their products will make your life fun and easier and will make you more beautiful/handsome, richer, more popular, etc.

Children, without adult guidance, only remember the fun stuff and never think that there could be a downside to consumerism. I was such a child. Weren't we all?

Surf the site linked below and consider limiting the amount of television you and your children watch (if not eliminating TV altogether) or at least watching with a critical mind.

(A benefit to your family is this: by reducing or eliminating TV viewing, your kids won't ask for all that stuff at Christmastime. Kids who watch TV know all the products out there --- and they'll want them!) Good luck.

Answer 4

Mine do the same!! I have to tell them no more Cartoon network or NickJR, get out some board games, read or play in your rooms for awhile. It is so hard in the winter to really get out and do alot.

:)

Answer 5

True story
At a quiz night, one boy - about 9 - announced that "Salmon always return to the river they were born in to breed".
Mummy looked suitably smug.
"I heard it on the KitKat advert, it's always on the telly"
Mummy wanted the ground to swallow her up.

Answer 6

My 3 year old son shakes his bootie and sings "Cha-cha-cha- Charmin!" every time we go to any store where they sell it. Everyone who sees him thinks its cute and I'm really not that concerned because he doesn't watch much tv.

Answer 7

thats really not that odd. the point of advertisments is for children to learn and repeat them. it would e ab-normal if your child could not do that atleast with toys and things on his level.

Answer 8

lol, your children must be like mine. My daughter was only two when she started saying she wanted to taste the rainbow every time she saw skittles.

Answer 9

Turn off the electronic baby-sitter (tv) and stop following the heard. Let your child see the life outside of pop-culture. There are parks, museums, theater and zillion of other things to do.

Answer 10

He/ she watches too much TV.. get them to experience the outdoors world. Take him/ her to a state park or something... poor kid!