What the...???
You have got to be shitting me.
"By bombarding them with advertisements ... you are placing parents like me in the unenviable position of having to tell our children that we can't afford the toys you promote."
How is this any damn different than what my parents did? Sorry, kid, you're not getting that this year, because we need to, I don't know, PUT FOOD ON THE TABLE, A ROOF OVER YOUR HEAD, AND CLOTHES ON YOUR BACK. What happened to actual PARENTING???
"I had one parent who said she'd prostitute herself to get what her child wants."
WHAT.
Have parents become so emasculated and kids so spoiled frakking rotten that the simple prospect of saying "no" terrifies us beyond all reason?
"My son doesn't understand. Everything he sees, he wants."
And that's why YOU'RE THE PARENT.
"Toy companies advertise to children because it works, to be brutally honest."
Clearly. Because parents don't want to deny their widdle pweciouses any-damn-thing, and they've been ENABLING tantrums for YEARS by buying them whatever their little hearts desire on the basis of a trembling lip and incipient screams.
Good freaking GOD, people. GROW A PAIR.
"By bombarding them with advertisements ... you are placing parents like me in the unenviable position of having to tell our children that we can't afford the toys you promote."
How is this any damn different than what my parents did? Sorry, kid, you're not getting that this year, because we need to, I don't know, PUT FOOD ON THE TABLE, A ROOF OVER YOUR HEAD, AND CLOTHES ON YOUR BACK. What happened to actual PARENTING???
"I had one parent who said she'd prostitute herself to get what her child wants."
WHAT.
Have parents become so emasculated and kids so spoiled frakking rotten that the simple prospect of saying "no" terrifies us beyond all reason?
"My son doesn't understand. Everything he sees, he wants."
And that's why YOU'RE THE PARENT.
"Toy companies advertise to children because it works, to be brutally honest."
Clearly. Because parents don't want to deny their widdle pweciouses any-damn-thing, and they've been ENABLING tantrums for YEARS by buying them whatever their little hearts desire on the basis of a trembling lip and incipient screams.
Good freaking GOD, people. GROW A PAIR.