Not in front of the kids Early Day Motion

Fran

prior446&#64 wrote: »

The only people who have the responsibility and the right to control what their children see on teleivision are the parents. They must control access, monitor content, discuss implications of advertising.

For the minority of parents who won't or can't do this a different approach is needed: how about all this energy being directed to them, instead?

We all have a responsibility towards the future generations that will look after us when we are old, not just parents.

This energy is being directed to parents. It's just that they don't have the babies yet.

trafalgar_2

kidtechnical wrote:

I believe ITV got rid of the Crazy Frog because it was driving people nuts (they proudly proclaimed they no longer ran the ad when asked about complaints received about it)...!

I beleived ITV didn't get rid of the ad ,the crazy frog was an intensive ad campaign that ended when it was meant to anyway..........................can anyone verify please.

bpyoung

Ha, that's rather clever marketing. Although anyone who can be persuaded on major financial commitments by their children shouldn't have been allowed to breed in the first place.

Personally I'd rather see a campaign to require basic intelligence testing before people are allowed to start a family so that these problems would never arise.

I know most of you won't agree with my views, but I hope you can at least accept that people are entitled to different opinions.

rchddap1

I can understand your opinions, but the point is how those children will then react to credit and debt when they get older. Will they take the view point that it is their right to get credit and will then get into debt upto and beyond their ear holes? Parents should know when it is right to get credit and when it is not, but these adverts are teaching our children then getting into debt is a normal thing to do when you want something....and that they don't even need to consider the future consequences.

bpyoung

Well then it's the responsibility of the parents to explain why getting into debt is a bad idea. If they can't manage that, then they're not particularly great parents.

trafalgar_2

'specialist childrens tv chammels'.........what does that mean,cbeebies that sort of thing

anybody know what age group we are talking about here

jo_b_2

trafalgar wrote:

'specialist childrens tv chammels'.........what does that mean,cbeebies that sort of thing

anybody know what age group we are talking about here

I think Nickleodeon / Nick Junior was a particularly bad offender, Traf (from the results of the survey on here the other week). Don't have it myself but they are aimed at primary school / pre-school children.

Hunnymonster

It does - means Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney etc. - age groups involved are zero up as far as I can tell.

Jazzycat

maybe we should have adverts for fags and booze - hey why not. If you're of the opinion that its fine to have debt managements firms advertising to children then why stop there. It has nothing whatsoever to do with good parenting - 4 and 5 year olds don't have a proper grasp of money so to let them think that a magic wand can be waved and debts vanish is crazy.

Ban them I say and leave the education to the parents.

trafalgar_2

jo_b wrote:

I think Nickleodeon was a particularly bad offender, Traf (from the results of the survey on here the other week). Don't have it myself but they are aimed at primary school / pre-school children.

so we're talking toddlers to say 7

Just interested what sorts of ages we're talking about here,because if that's the case these children are not influenced by car credit ads or debt consolidation (my grandson could repeat the slogan but wouldn't have a clue if you asked him to explain what it was about ) they mimic ,it's a jingle etc,nothing more.............ok lets say the worst happened and his mum said no we can't afford that and he come up with ,but 'so and so can help you' then we could afford it



most of the children aren't even paying attention and are twiddling their thumbs waiting for the next cartoon to start......................


the ads are aimed at the adults with the children,not the children


IMO