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From: sed408@ihlpg.UUCP (s. dugan)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Precocious Brand Loyalty
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Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 14:31:03 EDT
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> WHAT'S A FATHER TO DO????????????????????????
> 
> (story about Todd's kid (age 4) insisting on brand-name clothes)
> (also fears about said kid becomming a (GASP) YUPPIE!!!)
>
> 
> 

I wonder how much your kid watches TV.  How else does he get exposed to the
"Madison Avenue Hype"?  My daughter has yet to pull that kind of stuff on me.
She almost never sees comercial TV.  The only things she's picked up on are
Care Bears and (YUCK) Cabbage Patch Dolls.  Some of the kids at school (Day
Care) have them.  My daughter, Anne, age 3 1/2 hasn't actually asked to have
any of these, but she just points them out when we're in a store:  "Look,
Mummy, there's a Care Bear!"

I'm not sure whether it's just that she's not getting much peer pressure at
her Day Care, or because she just doesn't get exposed to the stupid
comercials.  Either way, I count my blessings!  I know, however, that it's
bound to come up sooner or later.

Good luck!


-- 

Sarah E. Dugan
"Thank God It's Friday."

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