http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:29:48 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/07/17/183823.php#comment-13320 it would just be easier if people just stopped having babies. then we wouldn't need to worry about them growing and wanting stuff. people wouldn't appriciate that concept, i'm afraid. peace. 13320@blogcritics.org Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:29:48 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/07/17/183823.php#comment-13318 It's a constant test of wills and unfortunately sometimes it's just easier to say yes, though Al's compromise program is close to how I was brought up and what we try to do with ours. In real life it's situational ethics very often, though. Lawsuits against marketers and providers of this trash is nonsense however. 13318@blogcritics.org Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:06:06 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/07/17/183823.php#comment-13313 I completely agree. Its the adults who have the control yet refuse to enforce it because the cute little sad faces always win. Its a trick. Being an adult child I remember all too well, pouting to get what I wanted. And those times when pouting didn't work I would result to tantrums that also did not work and often times when it was rationalized in my 4 year old mind that I could not live without the connect four game and shed tears when being drug out of the store empty handed I would get home and ultimately get over it. All the new latest fads are quick fixes that if parents could just get beyond the smoke screen of the sad face they would realize their children will in fact - GET OVER IT. Your son will be no better off having had Incredi Hulk's Cereal. And as the parent by buying them you have only fostered the idea in the child's mind that they should get anything they see that they want which will only create a bigger tantrum the first time you say no and mean it. It is a vicious cycle and the Marketing crews know this. Saying no to mass merchandising is just as potent as saying no to drugs. In the words of one of the biggest Merchandising Monsters of our time- JUST DO IT! 13313@blogcritics.org Fri, 18 Jul 2003 12:58:33 EDT