Shopping with Kids
My mother in-law needed to step into Wal-Mart today to pick something up. Since I was the one with the credit card, all of us had to go in - including the kids. Mom stopped the cart and told us to watch the cart.
My neise started talking about a tea-pot. I looked over and realized that Mom stopped the cart at the worst place. She started crying when I said no. Mom came back and said her magic phrase - “We’ll see about it on Tuesday, Ok?”.
This trick seemed to work throughout the day, but I’m getting the feeling that my neise is going to start catching on after a while. She is three and a half and just as smart as any other.
It’s that holiday season where kids are baraged with advertising left and right. They start asking for everything they see on T.V. The main thing she has been consistent on asking for this week, and last week is a pogo stick. Yea … I could just see a little girl like her on a pogo stick. NOT! But she sees all of these other kids on pogo sticks when she watches tv and it looks fun.
I’m just an uncle, so I’m confused what to get for her. I’m low on funds as it is, and I’m not going to buy her parents a medical bill. I do know this - she loves to do a lot of physical activity.
Tags: Shopping, Kids, Mother In-Law, Wal-Mart, Credit Card, Cart, Niece, Tea-Pot, Magic Phrase, Holiday, Season, Advertising, TV, Pogo Stick, Pogo, Uncle, Physical Activity
November 29th, 2004 at 2:57 am
As a mother, I’d rather have a pogo stick for my kid than poster paints!
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November 29th, 2004 at 3:05 am
We got her special paints from Crayola that only work with special paper. She finger paints with them and also uses those cheap paint brushes that come with water color books. It is a lot less messy and doesn’t leave scars.
November 29th, 2004 at 8:35 am
Oh, that’s an old trick, but a good one. It works on all sorts of kids for a long time, and really is a good test of if they want something. If they can remember they wanted something specific, rather than a barage of random firings in their head induced by commercials, then they probably do really want it.