The power of advertising on the young!

[Gemini]

GD and GS2 stayed with us over the weekend.
On Sunday morning GS was watching some TV, on Nick Junior. That channel has adverts between programmes, a thing he rarely sees, and he was mesmerised. All for toys of course! His Christmas list is getting long! He wants, amongst others, interactive mother and baby gorillas (I would love to get him this for Christmas, but at £75 it's above my budget! I am keeping my eye on them in case there is any reduction) walking dogs, aqua dragons which grow from eggs, and one electronic thing he enthusiastically told me was so he could do home schooling at the weekend! I can play whilst I learn he exclaimed
They are certainly like sponges for advertising at 5.

[Plantaholic]

Save your pennies then Gemini. Do you remember a toy that was a creature I think, which you had to keep feeding? My GD had one of those.

[Oma]

They are all aimed at Children so they badger parents to buy them ,
You pay a fortune then they lose interest in them very quickly

[Lizzie48]

It is the same here, starting now for December 5th, on the TV and we get folders weekly, one is from the toy shop, they are very popular, one in every village or city! They have a thick catalogue for December 5th, the girls would sit and put a cross near what they fancied, I think we ignored most of the crosses.

[Gemini]

Probably a Tamagotchi Plant, DD3 had one. I remember one occasion when I worked as a classroom assistant and I somehow got roped into looking after several while the girls did PE!!

[Plantaholic]

That’s it Gemini, I hope you fed them

[Daisy]

Gem - I remember the Tamagotchi craze and some children ended up very distressed when they thought they'd "killed" theirs.

I think there was a curb on making toy adverts in such a way that it looked as though the toys were better than they were, but to a young child I think they are still outrageously unrealistic and such a hard sell.

[Nanto2girls]

Both of our grandaughters went through the Tamagotchi craze.
These toy adverts certainly enthrall the children.
Fortunately our GD's are past them now.

[WeeGranny]

DD and I were talking about GS today and all he ever wanted was a ball. Didn't matter what size, colour anything as long as he could kick it, throw it or bounce it! He hardly ever played with any of the other toys he was bought!

I remember the Tamagochi craze! I'm sure they were banned from school because the disrupted lessons with their feeding times etc!

[Daisy]

WeeGranny - does your GS still play football?

Thinking about Tamagochi - I have a vague memory of flour babies. Literally bags of flour weighing about the same as a newborn baby.