Or it might as well be in my house. My son has recently discovered
Pop Tarts. (Especially the S'mores flavored ones.) Yuck! I'm not exactly sure how he discovered them, but I have a sneaking suspicion that he saw a commerical on either
Nick or
Cartoon Network.
Since we moved back from the relative
English-language television dead zone of Korea, the kids have been exposed to "Real American" TV for the first time in their lives. (My son was young enough before we left that we only let him see
Disney and
PBS.) The commericals are killing me. Pop Tarts are just one of the horrible by-products of commericalized life.
It's one thing to be exposed consistently from a young age so that, by the time it matters, commericals are ignored (for the most part), but my kids are sucking it up like
SpongeBob Squarepants-shaped sponges because commericals are like mini-tv shows to them. If I have to hear "Mommy! Look
Zhu Zhu Pets!" or "Mommy, look they make a kid-sized
Snuggies!" or "Mommy, you could really use
that when brushing your teeth" or "Mommy, can we make some
brownies?" or "Mommy, can I have some
Lucky Charms?"one more time, I might be forced to do something reckless and buy it. And I don't want to go there.
You can bet they are NOT going to watch the Super Bowl? The
Super Bowl commercials will probably lead me down the road to bankruptcy. My heart is strong, but my will is fading fast. Help me!!!
1 comments:
I'm definitely okay without that for the kids for as long as we can extend overseas. Just being home this summer I was waiting for the insanity to start in with the "I wants..." Christmas is so much easier when you are the one telling the kids what they should get ;)
But I do have to say, I am a Poptart-aholic...I can usually stay on the bandwagon, but every few months I fall off and can scarf down a box of chocolate fudge all by myself in about 2 days...
~Anna Jane
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