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Observing 4 teenagers this past weekend....
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<blockquote data-quote="DaisyFace" data-source="post: 368975" data-attributes="member: 6546"><p>I don't know whether it's "premature affluence"...</p><p> </p><p>or whether some parents are just afraid to draw any kind of boundaries.</p><p> </p><p>I remember listening to a group of parents commisserate about how it was so expensive having to buy their kids a certain sugary cereal...but what can you do? That's what they see on television - so they have to have it, ya know?</p><p> </p><p>I was flabberghasted that these Moms were letting commercials dictate how they spend their grocery money...I said "You tell the kids NO - TV is not the boss of me."</p><p> </p><p>The parents thought my approach was so novel. It had evidently never occurred to them that they did not have to follow what mass media said they should be buying/wearing/doing.</p><p> </p><p>Ridiculous.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DaisyFace, post: 368975, member: 6546"] I don't know whether it's "premature affluence"... or whether some parents are just afraid to draw any kind of boundaries. I remember listening to a group of parents commisserate about how it was so expensive having to buy their kids a certain sugary cereal...but what can you do? That's what they see on television - so they have to have it, ya know? I was flabberghasted that these Moms were letting commercials dictate how they spend their grocery money...I said "You tell the kids NO - TV is not the boss of me." The parents thought my approach was so novel. It had evidently never occurred to them that they did not have to follow what mass media said they should be buying/wearing/doing. Ridiculous. [/QUOTE]
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