Posted on 12/31/2012 12:10:24 PM PST by nickcarraway
The controversial fast-food chain publishes a children's book loaded with half-truths about farms and animals
As my son enters the so-called Terrible Twos, I’ve become keenly aware of one thing that makes them so terrible: awareness. After 24 months outside the womb, kids slowly but surely start becoming cognizant of what they have, what they don’t have — and what they want. At this point, too, kids begin more fully processing how the world works — or at least what the world is telling them about how the world works.
Advertisers obviously know all of this. They not only know that kids will go full-on terrible in annoying their parents into buying stuff they realize they want, but also that two-year-olds are already starting to develop their own future preferences. Hence, when my son hears the discrete piano tune and Ed Harris’ soothing voice on the radio and then cheerily shouts “Home Depot,” it is a sign that he is already equating home projects with the local-business-crushing orange Godzilla — just as that Godzilla’s marketing team hopes. Same thing for the Happy Meal, whose child-focused marketing equates junk food with emotive joy and cheap toys — a terrible-yet-irresistible combination for a two-year-old.
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So why doesn’t this stupid bimbo mom just turn off the TV? Better yet, get rid of it altogether!
David Sirota is an idiot.
Thank God I didn’t have parents like this whiner.
First; it’s a guy???
Second; He acts like this is something new that Chick-fil-et just invented. He and we grew up with this kind of advertising and BS. Look at our school system in general. It is not teaching facts, it is teaching opinions to our children. The lfact that he grew up in this adverting blitz and he is ‘okay’ why does he feel tha his children can’t get through the same crap on TV and the education system and still be okay.
It is called parenting. Some of us were good at it and some of us were not so good I am sorry to say.
“too much of a push-over” this poor kid is going to grow up to be a total jerk.
David Sirota
Honestly, this article is a riot. It's a lib pontificating and taking something way out of proportion, and libs in the comments are equally serious about it.
I feel sorry for this kid. They should take the child away from this nutcase.
I grew up on a family farm
When we wanted chicken my dad got out the old hatchet, whacked it;s head off and when it quit flopping he stuck the body in boiling water and polucked the feathers off.
I watched this done many times before I grew old enought o do it myself.
We killed and slaughtered the hogs, and even a beef once a year. We poisoned rats and mice and hunted squirrels and rabbots and deer.
We understood the food chain.
The a-hole that wrote this I am sure would have opposed the happiness found by Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig, because animals reall weren’t that happy.
OMG! What a sissy!
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. I predict another whiney liberal who refuses to let anyone live their lives in peace will emerge in 16 or 17 years.
... The company has cows, painting signs on roadway billboards, stating ‘eat mor chikn’... And the ‘parent’ is upset that they’re not getting their children’s books from PITA?
Wow, Chick-Fil-A has certainly lost a customer in this moron... Oh, right, vegetarian that would NEVER go to a fast food place, so who knows HOW that book came to the household, not that, you know, some parent might have stopped off to get some food for the child..
The insanity of the left never ends.
“The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.”
Actually, with parents I often find that the child goes in the opposite direction. We have in our fair city an honest-to-G*d commie on our city council. I practically fell out of my chair when I learned that his son (with the same name) is a registered Republican!
“David Sirota is a best-selling author of the new book “Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live In Now.”
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Reagan was right? We have screwed up things now because we rejected Reagan’s principles?
Obama is really one of the Milli Vanilli guys?
Of course he is, he’s a Salon writer.
Salon? Now there’s an unbiased blog.
Whoops! Gaydar just pegged....
Let me know how that works out when he wants the multiple facial piercings and the methlab in the basement.
Not a hard word dad and you better learn it fast.
Mark
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