When you set your kids down to watch a cartoon or two, do you sit and watch with them? Sometimes we do, sometimes we don't, but Nickelodeon and Disney are all banking on you at least overhearing their commercials. We just expanded our cable from the very basic package to a mondo-promotional package - so we get these kids channels again. In the past I remember seeing SUV commercials and get out of debt commercials but nothing prepared me for the following. Yesterday morning I was shocked to hear a commercial that went like this:
"Do you know where your child is most likely to encounter a s*xual predator?"
It must have shown a PC monitor as it went on to talk about internet danger. Now, this was like 9am!!! I was completely shocked and appalled. This was on Nick Jr. Um, there are a lot of very smart kids out there - little 3 and 4 year olds who are now running to ask mom, "Mom, what's a s*xual pred-i-ter?"
If there is anyone out there that doesn't know about internet dangers by now - they probably don't have the internet to begin with. Our news channels have stories about MySpace and predator stings practicly every other night. Enough is enough. Leave my kids alone and save the adult commercials for adult shows (that many of you can FF through)! Let my kids be kids.
