How Do Children Convince Their Parents To Buy Unhealthy Foods?

Let's see if we can figure this out...



BTW, There are no unhealthy foods, there is only eating unhealthily.

Sure they're fun and kids love them, but could cartoon characters used in marketing contribute to the obesity epidemic as well as create nagging children? Today, some parents find themselves having a battle in the cereal aisle. Recognizable characters and logos prompt children to make repeated requests for a range of products including low nutritional foods and beverages. To better understand the media's impact on children's health, a team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health examined the "Nag Factor." The "Nag Factor" is the tendency of children, who are bombarded with marketers' messages, to unrelentingly request advertised items. Researchers explored whether and how mothers of young children have experienced this phenomenon and strategies for coping. The results are featured in the August 2011 issue of the Journal of Children and Media.

As if only kids "bombarded with marketers' messages" are the only one's that nag.

Still, that is beyond the point.

Be the friggin' parent and say "NO."

It is always someone else's fault.

It is never the fault of the parents.

Bulls**t.

But do not be this parent: