Commercials That Influence Our Thoughts

As parents we try to block our children from the things they experience. Television is probably our worst enemy with that. We can block TV shows by blocking the ratings and we can protect our children to a point..but then what about the commercials that air between the show the child is allowed to watch?

You cannot block the commercials they are watching, no not even Disney or Nick at Night monitor the commercials they run. Lets face it …it is about money.

So here are just a few commercials I would like to bring to your attention. I say bring to attention as we see so much in this world that we become immune to things and really don’t understand how the subliminal messages get in. Then we wonder why children become nasty, uncaring adults. It is bad enough that there are no consequences and discipline as become a thing of the past, but why add injury to insult. Read on and you will understand.

Twix: The commercial shows someone either saying something wrong, thinking something wrong, or doing something wrong. It then goes on to say “Need a moment?” Lets look at this…really it is saying “dude, you just got caught, hurry up and come up with a lie.” The commercial then pauses everyone else why the person in the wrong comes up with a lie to cover what they were doing…the others then UN-freeze, and the lie is told.

What are we teaching our kids? Not only does the person do something wrong with no consequence but then he lies and gets away with that also, thus saying that lying is also OK!

M&M’s: We start of with the green M&M (no coincidence as we all have heard the green one makes you horny) she is in high heels and appearing to be sexy. The other (assumingly male) M&M’s are filming as she seduces them and they stand there quivering and sweating from lust.

I don’t know about you but that does not make me what to buy M&M’s. When we get to the point that we have to sell Candy to children by means of sexual content you have to wonder what is going on here. Kids love candy and do not need to see this. In fact just wait until your younger child asks you what the commercial means or why the Green M&M is acting that way.