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Parents, obey your children: Paraphrase of a Pediasure commercial

April 16, 2008 at 8:22 am · Filed under Parenting

Bratty child in grocery store:

But I don’t like chicken!

Mom:

Oh, I’m sorry, honey. Let me buy you a milkshake instead.

10 Comments »

  Really Robin wrote @ April 16, 2008 at 8:30 am

Thank you, Steve. So I’m not the only one!

My answer would be, “Well, I guess you’ll be hungry tonight then, dear.”

  ED wrote @ April 16, 2008 at 8:35 am

Nice try son, but “Spare the rod and spoil the child” isn’t a command…

  Melisssa Eimers wrote @ April 16, 2008 at 8:37 am

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!

  Barnabas wrote @ April 16, 2008 at 8:56 am

My two-year-old daughter loves this TV commercial. . .because she loves to loudly announce that the little girl is “NAUGHTY, NEED A SPANK!”.

  Jayson wrote @ April 16, 2008 at 9:06 am

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.

  Karen wrote @ April 16, 2008 at 10:07 am

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!!

  nathan wrote @ April 16, 2008 at 9:50 pm

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.

  Mark Culton wrote @ April 17, 2008 at 5:51 am

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.

  Liz Leonhardt wrote @ May 21, 2008 at 1:21 pm

It’s just a commercial……by the way, I just love that little actress! Great facial expressions. She could be the next Natalie Wood.

  Lois wrote @ June 18, 2008 at 12:23 pm

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…

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