Bloody toy adverts on the telly.

[rogersmellyonthetelly]

My kids have enough toys. Dd Has just had a birthday, got loads of Lego friends stuff, but has just seen a doll
House on pop tv, it's £100! Even if it was a tenner I would still be saying no on principal. I just get sick of the constant pestering from one of the other of them for the latest piece of plastic tat they have seen on the telly that they just HAVE to get.
I just keep saying "you can save up your pocket money or put it on your Santa list"
She has agreed to sell her littlest pet collection (last years fad) to raise some money towards the doll house, and is even now unloading the dishwasher as an extra
Job to earn more pocket money!

She could sell some old toys on Ebay (but let her know in advance that she won't get what was paid for them, and it will take time)

I get really at the adverts before Christmas. On childrens' TV it is every single flipping advert.
And the toys look fabulous.Grinning, playing children all playing enthusiastically. And the adverts are computer generated, animated and enhanced. I know IRL the batteries would be taken out or the DC would be bored stiff after 20 minutes.

I know what you mean by fads- we've had Zhu Zhu pets (which are going to be saved for her school fayre next year -raising money for trip)
Build-a-Bear
And at the moment, Sylvanian Family (sigh)

This is why cbeebies is the only channel as far as DS knows. Hope it lasts.

As a child I was never allowed to have anything that was advertised on TV. My mother considered a toy rubish if you had to advertise it.

She has enough toys but you're allowing her to sell her littlest pet collection and earn extra pocket money to buy herself this £100 doll's house?

Isn't that sending her mixed messages?

Perhaps, "No you can't have that because you have more than enough" would be a clearer message?

I am allowing her to sell toys that she no longer plays with in order to get something she really wants. Likewise the extra jobs.

Then to be fair, you can't really moan about the adverts.

OP, I feel your pain. I am being nagged to death for this hideous piece of overpriced tat

I am not giving in. Nope. Not going to happen

YY to the selling of toys.
Then she can see it takes effort and time.
And maybe halfway through she'll think, "Well actually I don't want it so much"
And realise that someone has to spend money to buy the original toys.

(My DS 12.6 yo makes Ebaneezer Scrooge look like a spenda-a-holic. It's amazing how he'll put an X-Box game back if I tell him to spend his money!)

I'm not bothered by the adverts, it's the way they enhance everything.

Off the top of my head-
Some toys called Elephantastic or similar.
A big plastic tube that puffs air and plastic butterflies shoot out that you catch with a net.
Cue laughing, giggling, acrobatic children, giggling in delight as the animatic "trunk" parps out another animated butterfly.

IRL, they'd fall to the floor, one child would poke the other's eye out with the net.
And they'd lose the butterflies and break your ornaments.
and a for good measure.

I think you are encouraging her to buy more stuff and be materialistic she has loads of toys yet she wants some more , maybe im just an old misery but 11 quid for a dolls house

I am allowing her to sell toys that she no longer plays with in order to get something she really wants. Likewise the extra jobs.

well adverts job done then you cant really go on about adverts enticing children when she is going to get what she saw anyway ,