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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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My oldest is 6 and still thinks he should be able to have any toy he wants. If you take away tv commercials, they still want everything they see in the store and that’s even worse because the toy is RIGHT there!
Thanks laura and mindy. I looked it up and supposedly the bad materials were destroyed, but their reputation was so tarnished, they tried to repackage and start over w/ new materials. But i still told my DH we should not get this toy. I appreciate you looking it up.
trisha
FYI: I googled this…
http://www.gearfuse.com/pixos-is-essentially-a-recalled-childrens-toy/#more-8561
I am not sure how to stop it, ‘J’ my 3 year old does it none stop! I just say ” ask Santa”
HA HA HA
Its normal for kids to want everything they see. and fortunately it does end! my kids have stopped asking so much.
OMG PIXOS are ruining my life right now!! lol My 6 year old wants them too and now she has the 2 year old saying “I want that Mama!!!” I try to limit the time they watch t.v. but it seems that they amp up the ads right now and until Christmas…sorry hun, it doesn’t go away…LOL…I STILL tell my parents what I want….haha
wasnt it cleaned up though? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122541224721086433.html
Either way, i am not sure its a safe toy for a 4 year old
Hey trisha,
just wanted you to know that is the recreation of the aqua beads that were taken off the market for having a “like” a date rape drug in them. They were pulled off the market a few months ago. Slap a new name on it and I guess you have a seller again.
I think it’s totally normal for children to see things and say they want it. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. They learn as they get older what they will realistically get and how they have to earn things.
I am not looking forward to that phase. I try to let the boys watch commercial free education DVDs right now or Sprout.
Will it ever end? LMAO Unlike dirty diapers, this doesn’t end until you die. The only thing that changes is the “I want that” continually focuses on a more expensive item each year.
Ok,I will lie and say it ends. LOL !
Oh yeah I totally forgot that I wanted to mention that we have Satellite over here so most of our programs don’t have commercials in between so Audrey doesn’t see very many, I always really liked that about the disney channel too, the seem to do very few toy commercials.
Audrey has started it a little bit already, especially because I’m such a shopaholic and always shopping online. She knows what santa looks like and reall likes him but she hasn’t seemed to put together that Santa brings toys yet! What my mom used to tell us was Santa had to use his money for the toys that were brought to the poor kids and so since we had a house and car and nice things that Santa only brought us what mom and dad could afford to pay him for. We bought it the whole time and it really helped with the Santa bring me everything mentality. It also helped us to understand why some Christmas’s were bigger than others, especially when my dad was unemployed. That might be something you can use with Charlotte I plan to use it on Audrey when she starts the give me everything on my list phase…
And that would be why we watch Boomerang and Noggin – no commercials! I tried Disney and Nick Jr. for two days but the “Can we gets” made me actually say, “No and if you don’t stop asking for everything Daddy is going to be asking if we can get a new TV!”
I haven’t seen those yet. What does it actually do?
We’re dealing with that too. Every commercial my 3 year old says “I want Santa to bring that”. He wants those stupid Pixos too. I’m sure all of those little balls would be PERFECT to have around considering we also have an almost 6 month old. As much fun as it would be to hang out in the ER trying to explain how my baby has a tummy full of Pixos, I think I’ll pass. Brody’s big thing is Spike the Ultra Dinosaur. He calls it by the full name too. No thanks! I’m not going to spend $130 on a dinosaur that you’ll launch across the room if you get mad!
And those PIXO’s look awfully familiar… Aren’t those like the little plastic beads we used to place on a round peg thing and have our moms iron to melt the plastic together? I think the end product was supposed to be a coaster. I was a 80′s kid. It seems like they are revamping and re-running a bunch of the same toys we had.
I am dreading the day when Suzi starts watching commercials and wanting the stuff in them. I am even more dreading the day when I have a son who does (toys aimed at little boys are just horrendous). I prefer silent, beautiful, handcrafted (if possible) wooden toys which require children to use their imagination, but none of that ever shows up in TV commercials. A bunch of walking, talking Barbies and junk like that would drive me nuts! I know the answer is to keep my daughter from watching TV, and that’s a nice thought, but difficult to implement.
We went through the same thing. It’s so much worse this time of year with commercials for toys every 5 seconds. Then I heard “I’m going to get that, and you can’t stop me,” come out of my sweet little 4-year-olds mouth. Whoa, buddy, that stopped quick. We discussed much nicer ways of talking, and the fact that we can’t have or afford everything. Now I just hear “I’d love to try that.” It’s a compromise, but it works.