Please sign the petition to STOP debt ads on Children's TV

[MarsLady]

petition here!

Glad someone has started this cos it's ridiculous having these ads in the middle of children's programmes!

With you all the way my chocolately friend x

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Excellent posts, marthamoo and MarsLady. I'm astonished at the way this has been turned into a parenting competition. For me, the issue is not so much what my children are exposed to as children in general. I use these adverts as a way of teaching them about the immorality of marketing loans to people so that they can get even more in debt. My children are pretty clued up now (and no, they are not watching violent cartoons either). But that's all very easy for me- I'm not in debt, I have never had a loan apart from a mortgage, and I find it relatively easy to engage with my children about issues like this. I signed the petition because not everyone is in such a comfortable position. I am aware that this might sound smug and patronising, but actually, I don't care. How many of the people who feel it's simply a matter of educating our children would mind if the ban on cigarette advertising was reversed?

And please, how many people on here have children who read junk mail and flyers???

I don't think Ocean Finance is targeting children by advertising on Nick Jr. - just because they are there doesn't automatically mean that their message is getting through in any meaningful way. Budget ads are usually sold by media companies as a package to be distributed to groups of cable channels, and they don't really distinguish between the target audiences of those channels.

Our children don't know that commercial television exists...they have cbeebies and will have cbbc when they are a little older (4 and 2). It's how db and I were raised so I know it can be done.

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"And please, how many people on here have children who read junk mail and flyers???"

DS1 (4 3/4yrs and who will be learning to read 'properly' at school come September) always picks up the flyers to look at - and asks me what they say.

I also let him open the junk mail as we get some much post that's for the business he likes to have his 'own'.

"How many of the people who feel it's simply a matter of educating our children would mind if the ban on cigarette advertising was reversed? "

Wouldn't bother me - TBQH - my children see people smoking as I take them out and about, I'm sure many parents of older children on here have 'soaps' on, or watch movies, with people smoking in them.......what's the difference???

There's one MAJOR difference between loans and cigarettes (the products not the ads) though........ Smoking Kills - Loans don't.

And what about all the adverts that start early evening for alcohol?

Adverts on the radio??

signed the petition. Excellent post tamum. The real issue here is what I do with my children, and how we interpret what they see on TV. That's not the point.

I don't like the general message loan ads give to children - the idea that you can have what you want without waiting. And that message is repeated again and again and again. IMO it gives children a very distorted view of adult life. I don't like the idea of children growing up with that message.

I wouldn't have signed the petition if the loan ads only popped up now and then on children's TV. The message would then have been one of many advertising messages out there. It's the blanket coverage I am against.

mistake in first line!! should read - 'the real issue here is NOT what I do with my children....'