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Charlotte has always been a huge sweetheart. Growing up, we take her a lot to Toys R Us and Walmart to “play”. Basically pack it up, and spend an hour there just letting her touch every toy in the aisle. Its cheap and free time out of the house. She has never asked to buy a thing……till about a month ago. Getting ready to go on her 4th birthday, she isn’t a “little” baby anymore and can completely understand EVERY commercial that comes across her eyes.
It starts when she comes home from school and flips on Nick Jr..
“ I want that.”
“Oh..i want THAT“
Pixo’s are her newest favorite, “i have-to-have-it-right-now” toy.
“MOM!! Come here! I want PIXO’S!“
We usually tell her, “
Charlotte you cannot have everything you see. You have to work for things (she does understand work) and then earn it.” She says ok, momma.
But then a new commercial comes on and it starts all over again…
” I want that…”
“Look at that! I want THAT!” ”
I have let her know that she can pick out a few things to ask Santa for. But she seems to think that EVERY toy is fair game for Santa.
Will it ever end? Lie to me.
(and proof that commercials work? She saw this picture from the other room and said “PIXOS?, I want THAT!”)
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The i wants are getting horrible. my daughter is 4 and recently started that when we started talking about christmas. i just tell her that there are a lot of kids that dont get anything at all, and i dont want to hear about what she wants. or i will tell her she has to tell santa.
My DD also just turned 4 in late Oct. About 2 months before came the “I want that”s and they are still coming after most commercials. It kind of makes me laugh b/c I remember my younger brother going through a similar phase at the same age. He is 35 now and does’t do it anymore if that’s any consolation. lol
Until then, my response to DD is, maybe Santa will bring it for you. After Christmas comes and goes, I am not sure what my response will be.
Well, my son was never like that….he’s 21 now, never had that problem…and working as a retail manager apprx 20 yrs, we wanted to clobber the parents that did that!
I don’t know…..to me, for us….if I didn’t have the money, we went to the park to play, took a drive or a walk….stuff like that..never did i have to do anything…one and only one time did my son ever throw a tantrum in a store, and that was with his relatives that DID buy him what the ‘i wants’ told him he could have…and I handled it like all good moms should, I scooped him up, took him outside til it ended, then we went back in…simple as that..
personally, if YOU make a big deal of it, the child will too…
jmho, it worked for me, husbands are no different, if you say no, they want it, if you say yes, they don’t…go figure…