Water v Coke

[wombat2u2004]

Yes I agree that television is filled with commercials for foods that I would have never considered buying for my family. Junk cereals never ever entered my house. GAG! The problem, in my opinion, is not so much that the ads are geared to kids (which they most certainly are!) but the fact that the parents run out and buy that stuff because their kids ask for it. Honestly, (and this is probably a topic for a whole nuther discussion ) when did parents lose control?? When I was little I didn't have that kind of power over my parents. Why are today's parents so ready to get their kids anything they ask for, even if it is not a good choice? I imagine part of it is that they have also lost control of their own ability to make good choices. I may be showing my age here, but I have to say that things were better way back when.....

Yes....I do agree that things were much better way back when Pam.
As for parents losing control.....well I have my very own opinion about that, and that is that the world and society are more affluent than they used to be. Money doesn't seem to have the value to people now as it used to have.
If parents have a problem with their children, the first thing they do is throw money at that problem....it's quick and easy and available, and solves the problem in the short term.
In my day, my parents never had the money to throw at us. (And even if they did, there were 6 of us.....that would have been a real rumble !!!! )
Wom

[Pam]

Yes....I do agree that things were much better way back when Pam.
As for parents losing control.....well I have my very own opinion about that, and that is that the world and society are more affluent than they used to be. Money doesn't seem to have the value to people now as it used to have.
If parents have a problem with their children, the first thing they do is throw money at that problem....it's quick and easy and available, and solves the problem in the short term.
In my day, my parents never had the money to throw at us. (And even if they did, there were 6 of us.....that would have been a real rumble !!!! )
Wom

Right on the mark Wom! I agree with every word. I have watched parents in stores give in to their three and four year old children without offering any resistance at all. These are then the same parents, when called into school a few years later because of their child's behavior problems, who will side with the child against the teacher. What kind of adult does that make? (My I have really taken this thread off topic. )