Never noticed this about Easter Commercials

[anewvance]

I never really though about it until my kids were watching Jeff Corwin on Ellen and a commercial came on. My kids don't watch very much regular tv, they watch dvd's. But a commercial for KMart came on, the kids are egg hunting and the dad asks the mom if she got the candy and then it says fill the Easter baskets. We still believe in the Easter bunny in our house, so how are they supposed to continue to believe if the commercials are telling parents to make sure they fill the Easter baskets?

I know believing in the Easter bunny doesn't really last as long as Santa and it's kinda not as important. But if they figure out they are fooled by their parents with the Easter bunny, i'm sure they will figure out the truth about Santa.

Sigh, the joys of having your children grow up....

 

[cardaway]

That is interesting. It would be company suicide to do that with Santa.

I'll have to watch for those since I've never noticed before.

 

[joshsmom]

WOW, guess I don't watch TV that much. I hadn't noticed. DS is 10 and "says" he still believes. I'm having my doubts though--too much influence from friends, etc. But, the Easter Bunny is planning to make an appearance at our house!

 

[hlbtimes2]

You tell them that they are talking about the baskets for people that the Easter bunny doesnt bring them for. You know, basket for mom or dad or grandparents. Or for Grandparents or Aunts to give the kids.

My daughter (7) and I recently went and helped fill baskets for the food bank. She wanted to know where those baskets would go. I told her they were for the kids that the Easter bunny might not be able to find.

 

[pogopossum]

last christmas, our tv seemed to be a minefield, i seem to remember at least 4 instances of guests on talk shows iwas watching or dw was watching, from oprah to david letterman, talking about their experience being "enlightened" as to the santa claus thing. i kept having to check to see how well the ds and dd were paying attention. why do these people do this?, even if they are supposed to be adult talk shows, children still come in and out of the room, and sometimes get to watch these shows.

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

I hate when companies and also tv shows do this type of thing. I swear it is because they are run by people who have never been allowed to believe in either Santa or Easter Bunny and they want to wreck it for the rest of us.

I would write K Mart a note and tell them how displeased you were with this commercial. Kids get their childhood taken away much too soon and I am sick of these insensitive corporate fat cats or tv executives taking it away sooner.

 

[cinmell]

I saw that KMart commercial and thought the same thing you did. I don't know why companies do that.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

well on the flip side--as a kid I always wondered---if Santa and the EB brought us all this stuff--what the heck is all that stuff doing at K-Mart.


And if a commercial is marketed towards a target audience-while it sucks if Jr sees it and puts 2 and 2 together--but there are ways to deflect it (and unfortunately they will find out sooner or later).

And then the television police will have their opinions about commercials.

Truthfully--I do try to avoid commercial television with my kids. Bugs the oldest b/c she wants to watch Nick Jr. Primarily to avoid the "gimmes". I understand that other parents do not have these issues. But for 6 months straight---without commericals it was I want this for Christmas, I want that. So for now--we are keeping with our no commericals rule. Spoilage of SC and EB is also part of that, though that isn't the first thought on my mind.

Heck--I get afraid with children's story books where the kids are doubting SC or EB--just b/c I don't want my kid to doubt.

 

[MsLeFever]

I keep trying to distract the kids whenever that commercial comes on - I really think it was a poor choice....

Although I loved the Christmas one where the father is trying (and failing) to put together the kid's bike and the kid sees it and runs and gets the directions from the internet, prints them and somehow (paperairplane?) sends them to his dad.....but in that case I could have said that Santa left the bike for Dad to put together!

 

[aprilgail2]

I noticed that too and this year my 6 year old daughter said ""mommy, you really don't expect me to believe that some giant bunny hops around the street carrying a basket of eggs and chocolate and can get into peoples houses and hide eggs and not get eaten by peoples dogs and cats. They don't even have "poseable thumbs", they couldn't even open the door".....so.... thats the end of the bunny

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I noticed that too and this year my 6 year old daughter said ""mommy, you really don't expect me to believe that some giant bunny hops around the street carrying a basket of eggs and chocolate and can get into peoples houses and hide eggs and not get eaten by peoples dogs and cats. They don't even have "poseable thumbs", they couldn't even open the door".....so.... thats the end of the bunny

You have a very SMART child. Posable thumbs .

 

[ryka]

I have seen one from kmart that says they have filled Easter basket not fill the Easter baskets. My kids know the bunny brings them baskets to my house and they get baskets from grandparents and friends so they know the ones on sale in kmart are for family and friends to buy for them cause they Easter bunny only brings you one.

 

[Stitchfans]

I didn't see that commercial. Often though different commericals and even movies make comments like that. Like in the movie Gremlins when the girl told the story about her dad getting stuck in the chimney dressed as Santa and dieing and she says thats how I learned there isn't a Santa.

How many kids saw that and hear that line? Even though they shouldn't be watching it cause it would scare them half to death and it is too old for them.

 

[aprilgail2]

You have a very SMART child. Posable thumbs .

We made a lot of trips to the museum of natural history this year and she was very interested in the evolution stuff....

 

[lilprincessnbuzz]

I have seen that commercial and I thought the same thing. Another example, on our local news one anchor said to the other "Do you have all your Easter baskets made and ready to hide?" The other anchor replied "No, I LET the Easter bunny do that" At least she covered for him. Alot of people might think that kids don't watch the news, but you never know. And this was the 5:00 p.m. news, not the late night broadcast.

As others have said, there are ways to explain it. We are having a big block Easter egg hunt and my house was egg stuffing central! Approximately 1500 eggs were stuffed by neighborhood kids and myself, the older kids will hide them. The egg stuffing kids all understood that the Easter bunny couldn't be responsible for ALL the Easter egg hunts, just the ones in your home on Easter morning.

I am relieved that none of the kids asked in depth questions or even mentioned posable thumbs! That is too funny

 

[MosMom]

My kids have always known that some stuff comes from us too. That way if they ever see anything I've hidden I can cover my ***.

 

[MinnieM3]

Well, here the EB brings the baskets/candy/toys. Then DH and I hide the egss in the yard. It's not a secret about hiding the eggs. That part of Easter, the egg hunt, is a family event and not an EB thing.