Apr 16, 2008
Parents, obey your children: Paraphrase of a Pediasure commercial
Bratty child in grocery store:
But I don’t like chicken!
Mom:
Oh, I’m sorry, honey. Let me buy you a milkshake instead.
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Thank you, Steve. So I’m not the only one!
My answer would be, “Well, I guess you’ll be hungry tonight then, dear.”
Nice try son, but “Spare the rod and spoil the child” isn’t a command…
Since when did strong parents become politically incorrect and children who raise their parents become the applauded norm?!!
Somehow that seems to have happened…though not in our house!
My two-year-old daughter loves this TV commercial. . .because she loves to loudly announce that the little girl is “NAUGHTY, NEED A SPANK!”.
Yes! We use that commercial to teach our 2-1/2 year old how NOT to respond to us!
Incidentally, what kid doesn’t like chicken?!?!
That’s staple meat in our home…with ketchup of course.
lovely to hear other parents to find that little girl offensive in that commercial!! Way to go mom! Teach the kids that they make the rules!!
I saw that in a store just the other day. Growing up as the one kid in the family who wouldn’t eat anything but PB&J, icecream, and cereal, I look back thankful for parents who didn’t capitulate, even though I’m sure that my behavior oftentimes caused them to want to cast me into the raging seas.
Sad to see parents give into their kid’s manipulation.
So very true. My wife and I have been scoffing at that commercial for months now (or is it years….?)
I think everything in parenting (including what we challenge our kids to try and require them to eat) is a soul-shaping experience.
It’s just a commercial……by the way, I just love that little actress! Great facial expressions. She could be the next Natalie Wood.
Found you through google search. I despise this commercial.
Parents are NOT short-order cooks! In our household growing up you ate what was served…none of this “what do you want” stuff…
I HATE that commercial!! I am 26 and have a 1 year old, she is a little under weight for her age and her pedi. suggested that I put her on pediasure. First of all it is basically sugar. Secondly I can find more nutritious foods that dont contain all that sugar, beside I keep telling her DD is allergic to milk products but she does no hear me. If that were my child saying “I dont like chicken, waffles, or broccoli” she would be one starving child because the last thing the little brat would get is Pediasure. If you cant eat what I am making for dinner, you will have to see whats for breakfast.
lol I think it is hilarious. It’s just a commercial people – get a grip. Plus, I don’t notice the parent particularly giving in -just because the kid announces she doesn’t like something does not mean the mother is not going to buy it.
Incidentally, as adults if we don’t like something, we don’t eat it. If our pets don’t like something, we’ll buy a different kind of food for them. But the kid better eat every dang thing in the plate! Ever think about that?
I was a highly finicky kid when I was small… sometimes being forced to eat something my palate deemed inedible caused my involuntary gag reflex to go into operation. I could not be persuaded that if I didn’t finish my (whatever) that I would get no dessert item (or some other ruse parents employ ). I am sensitive to children who are ordered to eat food items that adults know is good for them, but which the child has a natural revulsion towards.
Forcing kids to eat “yucky” food may validate a parent in a battle of wills, but in the long run it can damage a child, and have residual effects in behavior as the child grows up. And we all feed
our children their favorite food(s) when we want to
show them that we love them.
But the cute little girl in this PediaSure commercial isn’t whiney… she is not a “brat” ! Rather she is sweetly saying the words ” I don’t LIKE (such & such) like it’s a game based on her past behavior when perhaps she was finicky. The Mother is not swayed by her child’s comments.
She is knowingly wise to her daughter and doesn’t cater to the child’s whims except to purchase a product that is both healthy for the young’un as well as something she will like the taste of.
Take it from a former kid who (at one time)
didn’t want the spaghetti sauce touching the spaghetti (now I don’t know how anyone could have one without the other)… this girl in the commercial is definitely NOT a bratty kid !