What is it with commercials these days?

[MickeyMomOfThree]

Oh that is bad... They make (or use) catchy tunes too so they do stick in the kids heads.

 

[disneyplanningdad]

I agree also. The reality is that you can't avoid this stuff unless you just put your head in the sand. I wanted my kids to see the political conventions but then I find myself having to explain to DS age 11 why a seventeen year old (the same age as his cousin) is pregnant. He really isn't ready for the full talk but we had to have it anyway. Thanks a lot John McCain.

 

[The Moonk's Mom]

I agree also. The reality is that you can't avoid this stuff unless you just put your head in the sand. I wanted my kids to see the political conventions but then I find myself having to explain to DS age 11 why a seventeen year old (the same age as his cousin) is pregnant. He really isn't ready for the full talk but we had to have it anyway. Thanks a lot John McCain.

Let's not go there okay...I think this was about commercials and not anything political. Plus, last time I checked, John McCain is not the father.

 

[pixiepower1971]

I agree also. The reality is that you can't avoid this stuff unless you just put your head in the sand. I wanted my kids to see the political conventions but then I find myself having to explain to DS age 11 why a seventeen year old (the same age as his cousin) is pregnant. He really isn't ready for the full talk but we had to have it anyway. Thanks a lot John McCain.

An 11 year old not ready for the full talk of why a 17 year old is pregnant? Really? Just curious, but why?


As for the commercials, I agree that many are a little over the top. I really wish they would consider the target audience of a show a little more.

 

[disneyplanningdad]

An 11 year old not ready for the full talk of why a 17 year old is pregnant? Really? Just curious, but why?


As for the commercials, I agree that many are a little over the top. I really wish they would consider the target audience of a show a little more.

He's just not interested in girls yet. We have an open dialogue on these subjects. We try to keep things age appropriate. That means that when they were younger we warned about inappropriate touching etc. As they get older we talk about body changes, progresing to sexual awareness, abstinance and then thornier issues like contraception. DS13 was much more interested and the big talk (that included everything up to and including homosexuality). I had the talk with him because he asked for it independent of what he was seeing on TV when he was barely 11.

My point is that I think commercials are only a reflection of our society. Sex is in front of our kids all the time. It is our job as parents to prepare them for that because we just can't change what they see unless we totally cut them off from the world.

 

[Shagley]

This topic sooo reminded me of the "Feminine Hygene" song...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvoT0ZicwZY

 

[disneyplanningdad]

This topic sooo reminded me of the "Feminine Hygene" song...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvoT0ZicwZY

Thanks. I neded that laugh.

 

[The Moonk's Mom]

This topic sooo reminded me of the "Feminine Hygene" song...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvoT0ZicwZY

 

[Karlzmom]

im 32 and tampon and maxi pad commercials were surely on when i was a child. i just think kids arent paying as much attention as we think, i know i wasnt.
if my child asked me what herpes was i think i would just tell them its a disease. you dont have to go into so much detail.

my kids watch mostly disney channel, nick and discovery . none of them run any of those commercials. i think if you watch local channels you have more of an issue.

The early maxi pad commercials were very vague about the "Whats"...amazingly, the Stay Free/Cathy Rigby ads were the first in the late 70's so they really only started about the time you would have been born Now a'days its all discussed, and loudly at that! Its one more reason we just turn the box off.....

 

[powellrj]

Its nothing new. I am almost 50 and I know when I was little I couldn't wait for my period because I always thought I would get to go horseback riding! It was a promotional campaign used in the 60's that showed women who used tampax riding horses.

One of my DMs favorite stories is the time she took my DS to a meeting with her and he announced to the women that they shouldn't eat too many donuts or you get a yeast infection. He is 25 now and his little 3 year old brain decided that a yeast infection was caused by eating too many yeast donuts. Her friends still remember that day!

I got to explain to my DD who is 12 today how a woman knows she is pregnant 5 days before she misses her period because she saw it on a home pregnancy test commercial.

 

[susykt4]

I remember in junior high (1984ish) a friend and I loved to torture our mothers with questions about feminine hygiene products, especially douche. "Mom, do you ever get that not so fresh feeling?" "Mom, now that you're older, AND wiser, do you use Semicid?" (no idea how to spell that last one, but wasn't it some birth control method?) Ah, the good old days...

Honestly, I would rather deal with Viva Viagra and the most advanced piece of technology you'll ever pee on than the nonstop advertisements for Sketchers Z-straps and the new non-lethal variety of Aqua Dots they show on Nick. My 5-yr-old son won't shut up about Sketchers.

 

[Angelbabee1]

Definately, its all targeted during the wrong times

 

[ISP2MCO]

The worst for us is when our DD9 started singing "Viva Viagra"...at first it was hard to not laugh, but then I told her to not sing it...it really is hard to explain some of the stuff that shows up on tv.

I read this thread just to see if anyone brought up this commercial. My DS 9 has always picked up Jingles from commercials. Immediately after seeing the commercial, I wondered how long it would be before he was singing it in class.

 

[Echo queen]

I had to decribe what the prostate was to my 10 year old. In the end he thought that was to much info.

 

[ALittleDisneyFan]

I was just mentioning all of this to DH a few days ago. I mean really, ED???

 

[lorisnuts]

the commercial that gets me is the new pregnancy test one...

it shows a picture of the test stick and a "stream" (of something) hitting the stick in just the right spot, while the announcer says... it's the best stick you'll ever_____on.

dropped my jaw when I first seen this commercial.

 

[Syrreal]

Between ads telling me about living with Herpes and TV shows showing me people puking every two minutes, I can hardly keep my lunch down

 

[tchrrx]

Has anyone seen the commercial where the guy is dressed up like Santa? It's some sort of male enhancement commercial & it ends with a lot of women lined up to sit on Santa's lap after he takes this pill or whatever it is. I can't remember what channel it was on, but I was very glad DD wasn't watching it with me!

 

[mjantz]

My biggest problem is that we're a football family & we watch a ton of football games (mostly college). Its very akward to watch an ED commercial with not only your kids but your parents as well. I realize that football games would be in their target audience but it doesn't make me any less uncomfortable.

 

[Syrreal]

Has anyone seen the commercial where the guy is dressed up like Santa? It's some sort of male enhancement commercial & it ends with a lot of women lined up to sit on Santa's lap after he takes this pill or whatever it is. I can't remember what channel it was on, but I was very glad DD wasn't watching it with me!

I know exactly what commercial that is! They are always showing it on SPIKE while I'm trying to watch CSI reruns.