Parents, are you ready?

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It's starting. Every cartoony, kid oriented channel is doing it. I'm already sick of it.

TOY COMMERCIALS!!

Anyone with kids knows what I'm talking about. If you don't, just turn on the Nick channel before noon. Every commercial is new toy this and new toy that.

And all our kids are saying the same thing:

"I want that! Mommy I wish I could have that."

I'm ready to block TV watching till December 26th. Anyone else in the same pickle?
 
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Yes.

I just say, "You better go clean your room. Santa Claus is watching!"
 

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We must be on the same wave length, or watching the same channel. My oldest daughter was just commenting on the toy commercials..like just now before I read your post.
Worse yet, she just got a load of potted Christmas trees in at work (a home store)today.
grrrr
 

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uh oh!






Luckily I'm an adult and too old for toy commercials but too young for kids.
 

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I will complete a play this year! I will!
Yep I know exactly what you mean. Same thing in our house. "Mum I really want one of those." "Mummy I would love that." "Mummy I wish I could have that." As if that's not annoying enough, those commercials are full of perfectly groomed kids living in perfectly tidy houses with perfectly attractive and well-dressed mothers. My house is not like that! It makes me feel incompetent! Grrrr!
 

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Wait till it isn't toys they want. When the commercials they like are advertising things that cost $300 and up it's time to hang your head & cry.
 

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My kids are too old for that now. My daughter's birthday is next week. She only wants two items.

A cell phone and a car.

Great. Just great.
 

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When the Razor phones first came out, my kids drove me crazy with begging.
They shouldn't have wasted their breath, they never got one ;)
 

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Well all I want is CDs, movies, and hippie clothes. I guess I am a simple girl to please

LOL as if
 

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"Okay, dear. But just remember; every time you wish for a toy, Santa kills a kitten to make it."

Problem solved.

Um...I'm not responsible for the years of ongoing therapy afterwards. :D
 

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Thank goodness my son is still young enough to watch Noggin. NO COMMERCIALS!

It's the only tv channel he's allowed to watch. And that's the reason. :)
 

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Thanks to the wonder that is CBeebies, my children have yet to see a toy advert.
 

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Accidentally throw the TV out of a second-story window.

:D
 

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I have two girls, last year it was a Razor phone and a digital camera that "Santa" brought them.

This year...they don't want the expensive gifts. My youngest wants "something pretty from her boyfriend" and the oldest claims she has everything she needs.

I think I'm going to cry, they're so grown up!

*sniff*

MY Santa gifts on the other hand... :D
 

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My son mostly drools things down the front of his shirt.

But man...

*I* want some of those toys.

Now when I grind my teeth is when I get 15,000 Salad Shooter commercials a day. Friends, Romans, countrymen, nobody buys salad shooters.! Agh!
 

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I set my TV up so that it doesn't get reception. My kids only watch what we rent from Blockbuster or buy for ourselves. No commercials is just one of the many reasons we decided to do things that way...but boy, does it drive my 16-year-old crazy!

(my other two are 9 months and 3 years)
 

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Disney Channel
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pbs Kids
don't do commercials during the show.

We've stopped watching Nick Jr because of the commercials.
 

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I wanna do A Clockwork Orange style brainwashing thing with my son so that, when he's older, if he sees anything that isn't on the Discovery Channel, he just goes into hysterics and starts screaming (it'll backfire on me and he'll start screaming Leave Britney Alone and then I'll have to axe him...)
 

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I wanna do A Clockwork Orange style brainwashing thing with my son so that, when he's older, if he sees anything that isn't on the Discovery Channel, he just goes into hysterics and starts screaming (it'll backfire on me and he'll start screaming Leave Britney Alone and then I'll have to axe him...)

When he reaches that age where he starts whining about getting a dog have him speak to Uncle Haggis. :D
 

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(going to try to shield him from all you lot, thank you so much. Or he'll be crazy)
 

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Just one more point in favor of a "no TV" household. Movies, ok. TV, no. Even the stuff in between the commercials is 90% crap.

That said, my parents trained me to be non-consumerist from the start. Basically all they would do was 1) Mute all commercials and 2) Sit there and make disparaging comments about the silent commercials. IE, "Oh look, they're trying to sell us ___ for $100, when it's only worth $2!" In third grade I was already listening to my classmates who were begging for stuff and thinking, "These people are idiots."

My folks also heavily emphasized the value of hand-made gifts. I was encouraged to make them, and that was a large percentage of what I got from them. They taught me that spending time and effort rather than money on a gift was a better demonstration of love than going out and buying things.

But of course I guess all of this really depends on whether or not your kids listen to you and respect your opinion. If they don't, then you're screwed. :)