Get Wise To The Advertising Aimed At Your Children

Monday, September 29th, 2008 | kids

If you have kids, you’ll have noticed how susceptible they are to marketing and advertising. While media watchdogs have rules in place to protect children from the most conniving of adverts, advertisers use their best psychological methods to place their product or service in your child’s brain. Lisa Tiffin guest blogs on Get Rich Slowly about how she taught her twins to think for themselves when it comes to advertising.

…after we saw how easily we had been replaced as the value-shapers in our home, we also began to notice just how much allure commercials held for our children. And as soon as we began to hear choruses of, “Can we buy this?” and “We need to have that!” from the lips of our twins, we realized we needed to act.

The full article can be found here: How to Inoculate Your Children Against Advertising.

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