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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I was somewhat taken aback. Not “our” kind of comments, but enjoyable, none the less!
Happy New Year to you Andy, and many more.
But of course this loser has no problem with the incessant global warming agitprop that’s directed at his kid and everyone else.
Well put!
HIS. His kids.
LOL. My wife could kick his ass, steal his veggies and leave him standing in his front yard with a wedgie.
Doesn't matter what the kid reads, with a pussy father like this he's gonna grow up to be a waiter in a dinner theater and talk with a lisp.
The posted paragraphs would be a full indictment of every piece of crap perverted TV show and movie pushed out by Hollyweird.
I guess they won’t be consistent
To sift through the bile and twaddle of the Left for cohesive thought would be like the Kumalak use of feces for fortune telling.
screw this family and that kid! don’t care glad i have never married take away this husbands man card ha ha!
Uuummm,the kid is TWO.
Who is in charge in that household?
The writer is an idiot.
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To sift through the bile and twaddle of the Left for cohesive thought would be like the Kumalak use of feces for fortune telling.
Home Depot targets its advertising to two year olds? What an idiot.
And Chic Fil-A is providing a book to young un’s to help get them interested in reading. They’ve been doing this for decades, and none of the books I got my kids were about happy farm critters.
poor kid (in so many ways)
Owned by a 2 year old. Despicable panty wearing coward.
This kid is going to end up a gigantic mess, and the parents will wring their hands and say they did their best.
I thought this was going to be about a bowl game! LOL!
say what?
That two year old is less of a bedwetter than his father is.
Poor kid
Thank you, and Happy New Year. I suppose upon reflection what I had meant to say was "solipsistic", but "sanctimonious" would more than accomplish the same essential idea by implying a substitution of that which is temporary and personal for things both eternal and divine.
Yum! Great New Year’s Eve menu!
Happy New Year!
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