Comments on: Parents To Toymakers: Cut The Ads

Companies Defend Marketing To Children, Say Parents Can Tailor Gift-Giving To Economic Situation

[jsd330]

Simple tell the kids to make a list with the number of toys that you will buy for each kid, when they see a toy commercial and say I want that, tell them it''s not on their list and do they want to take something off their list and add that toy? This is what I did with my kids and I do with my grandchildren and I tell them no changes after December 10.

[httpwwwnews]

===PUT DOWN THE POTATO CHIPS, TURN OFF THE TV AND GET OUTSIDE!===Posted by wallyj16

Fine if its December and you live in San Diego, where its 70 out. Not so easy when it''''''''s 10 degrees outside in Buffalo or Minneapolis. Posted by rafterman1

Same problem in So. California. Kids don''t want to go outside and play when it''s 85 to 95 everyday.

I agree with harbinger09, turn off the tv and do things inside the house, do homework, read.

[nothappyatall]

As far as reminiscing about the benefits of the 1890s, how are you mirroring those standards? Certainly not from the other side of your computer. But while you are there, you might want to take some time and do further research on the decade that you are holding up as an example of more positive and simpler times.

Posted by IrishWench "

HEY, it was NO Picnic back then I studied the era, BUT kids are still kids- back then a few found blocks of wood, a rag doll, jacks, marbles, ball and stick and books or whatever were the toys- see, they used their BRAINS and IMAGINATION cause they had nothing else!
Many of them worked 16 hour days like adults and many didnt have time for school, but GEE, somehow they invented things like the lightbulb, automobiles, refrigerators and all the rest we have now except computers. SOMEHOW they didnt need nintendo Xbox, Wii, or dolls that wet, krap, babble and hug.
But kids today dont have any imagination, thats why they "need" dolls that wet, krap themselves and hug huh?

[formrusmcsgt]

Parents who wish to control advertising rather than control their kid''s viewing simply want a free baby sitter and commercials go with the territory...in fact, they pay for it.

[sbelknap01]

harbinger09 you are awesome. Did you ever put green food coloring in eggs for Green Eggs and Ham? Got my two to make breakfast (and cleanup!) with that one. I get that these people didn''t want their kids in the first place, they wanted dolls to dress up, but now that they have actual human people in their lives, why not try to like them? They are interesting and funny. Think of them as an inexpensive hobby - that comes with hugs.

[nothappyatall]

Let me get this straight - parents are asking toy companies to stop advertising so that they don''''t have to tell their children ''''

YUP, you got that straight, the parents want free enterprise businesses to stop advertising so they as parents dont have to say NO LOL what losers

[cajunmaoris]

Parents to Children: No.

[sbelknap01]

Let me get this straight - parents are asking toy companies to stop advertising so that they don''t have to tell their children ''no''? Parents: who taught your children to a)watch TV b)want toys at christmas c)be hurt if they don''t get what they want and d)that their parents are required to provide them whatever plastic *** they demand? Jeez, what losers. Best Christmas EVER: Two kids, one yo-yo, one kitten. Doesn''t your TV have an off button? Don''t you watch it WITH your kids so you can mute thru the ***? Don''t you TELL your kids that it''s ***? Suffer. If you don''t make your kids advertising-proof they will be the same social climbing, over-extended, needy, useless narcissists you are. Don''t you even want to TRY to make them better?

[harbinger09]

===PUT DOWN THE POTATO CHIPS, TURN OFF THE TV AND GET OUTSIDE!===
Posted by wallyj16

Fine if its December and you live in San Diego, where its 70 out. Not so easy when it''''s 10 degrees outside in Buffalo or Minneapolis.

Posted by rafterman1 at 10:26 AM : Nov 30, 2008


FINE, THEN PUT DOWN THE POTATO CHIPS, TURN OFF THE TV AND DO STUFF WITH YOUR KIDS INSIDE!=== Lots of activities for those who want to do them--like cleaning the house, reading, drawing, board games, or memory games like watching their favorite videos then making a trivia game of remembering lines or what items were in a scene. We play games like this all the time and everyone of my kids stayed on the honor roll.

[cajunmaoris]

Toymakers to Parents: Cut the TV.