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Originally Posted by Marie
My bad...I didn't get that. I was agreeing w/MysticCat who he seemed to be disagreeing with.
Anyway, I didn't really know the movie was quite as creepy as it was until I saw it. I would be kinda disappointed in Mickey D's endorsing it too.
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I took DA to be agreeing with me, not disagreeing. Too many parents
do confuse marketing with "kid friendly" -- "well, if McDonalds is giving it out in Happy Meals, it must be okay for kids." -- and corporations like McDonalds and Disney capitalize on that. The rest of get to say, "yes we know it came with your Happy Meal, but no you can't go see that movie."
One of the most gratifying things to me as a parent right now is that MysticCat Jr., at the age of 8, can already articulate to his 5-year-old sister why she shouldn't believe everyting she sees in commercials (or as she say, "commercionals"). The kid has a pretty good grasp of what marketing is all about -- including the idea of toys with Happy Meals. ("They just do that so kids will want to eat there.") I like that almost as much as his recognition that most of those toys are "lame."