No TV for you!
Do you ever think about how TV advertising affects your children? Aidan is a sucker when it comes to advertising. There is a commercial about Bendaroos, have you seen this one? The “Magical wax building sticks” are for crafting, and “they never break!” Aidan tells me all the time that she needs those, because “they never break!”
“But mommy, they stick to stuff too”
“I can even color with them”
“They’ll stick to my wall, mom!”
You’ve seen the commercials where people are singing “Old McDonald had a farm” as they wash their hands. The idea is that this gets them to wash their hands for the right amount of time, to help wash away the germs. Most of the time, the boys insist on singing this as they wash their hands. The thing that bothers me about this is that I tried to get them to do this before they saw the commercial, and they would have nothing to do with it. Moms don’t know anything, the TV knows everything!
During the holidays, Aidan would tell me that I needed this scotch tape thing that went across my fingers because then I wouldn’t need help wrapping presents. She also told me that the paper cutter that went with it, cut the paper WAY better than scissors and much faster. “You need that mom, for real, you need it.”
Over the weekend we were watching a little cartoon on TV, and a Clorox Wand commercial came on. There was a very excited mom cleaning her toilet with the Wand, and it looked so easy and effortless. She was just so happy cleaning that toilet (she must have been high on marijuana.)
Aidan:”Wow mommy, you need that!”
Andrew yelling with excitement:”Mommy, do you want that for your birthday?!”
“Gee Andrew, if you ever actually peed in the toilet instead of around the toilet, then I am sure I could use that.”
