To my way of thinking advertising is more informational. Hey, this product exists! It may or may not work the way we are showing you. Let the buyer beware. I cannot recall a product I personally purchased as a result of a commercial. Yet, there are quite a few things I have purchased after watching some show on the Food Network. Alton Brown can have that influence.
Connor, being how he is, tends to latch onto products based purely upon the marketing. The products that peek this interest are few and far between. Usually, they are a one shot deal. For the greater part, he just enjoys the humor in the commercials, which lean towards slap stick.
As a consumer savvy society we take a jaundiced view at people who are "selling something." Most of us easily see the fact from fiction.
Enter this commercial
Connor wanted to purchase the above product. Finally it arrived in the stores we frequent. This became rather interesting. There was a concern on his part that his head would blow up. While this was a minor concern, requiring a modicum of re-assurance. I made the tactical error of thinking he was joking and confirmed the possibility. Bad form on my part.
Tina, being the smarter of us two, was able to re-assure. He tried the candy and I am thinking that is pretty much it for the experience. Her careful stating that it was only a commercial was a much more parental approach.
This got me wondering about any outlandish commercials that I believed and sure enough one from my youth was remembered. It had a mom type actress who put some peanuts into a shaker and after a few shakes, it had turned to peanut butter. As we had a shaker and some peanuts around the house, I was promptly disillusioned by conducting the experiment myself.
All in all a parenting 101 lesson for me.
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The package was nothing like I thought it would be. It's strips of rainbow-colored gummy fruit-snack stuff with the sour sugar dusting it.
Once he figured out his head wouldn't blow up, Connor ate it all. I took a small bite to show him nothing would happen.
Your lives are so interesting!
I guess looking at it from a more literal point of view is so much more entertaining than having your kids say, "what a dumb commercial!"
Which is what K and C said about this one! Heehee
I am quite sure Connor thought nothing of the transformation until I stupidly confirmed it might happen.
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