Coco what?
I just watched an advert on TV.
Nothing odd about that, you might say. It was for a product called "Coco Pops Straws". Coco Pops are of course the chocolatey version of Rice Crispies and who can forget their other quality adverts? The offside giraffe in the football game for instance.
Back to the straws. They are some sort of cereal straw that is chocolate lined that children can use to drink milk. The advert claims that they are a great way to get your children to drink more milk. So, not only are we now being told to pander to children who are allowed by their weak parents to say that they don't want to drink milk if they are told to, we are encouraging impressionable youngsters to forget table manners and slurp milk from a bowl. Who thought up that bright idea?
It might be worth mentioning at this point that I am not, as yet, qualified to criticise other parents for the upbringing of their children as my daughter is only 7 weeks old. Before you judge me for being unfairly harsh though, think back to when you were a child. Were you allowed to get away without drinking the milk your parents put in front of you? Probably not. I know that I certainly wasn't.
Nothing odd about that, you might say. It was for a product called "Coco Pops Straws". Coco Pops are of course the chocolatey version of Rice Crispies and who can forget their other quality adverts? The offside giraffe in the football game for instance.
Back to the straws. They are some sort of cereal straw that is chocolate lined that children can use to drink milk. The advert claims that they are a great way to get your children to drink more milk. So, not only are we now being told to pander to children who are allowed by their weak parents to say that they don't want to drink milk if they are told to, we are encouraging impressionable youngsters to forget table manners and slurp milk from a bowl. Who thought up that bright idea?
It might be worth mentioning at this point that I am not, as yet, qualified to criticise other parents for the upbringing of their children as my daughter is only 7 weeks old. Before you judge me for being unfairly harsh though, think back to when you were a child. Were you allowed to get away without drinking the milk your parents put in front of you? Probably not. I know that I certainly wasn't.