Today I used my electric toothbrush and my little one (2 1/2) said that he also wanted an electric one. OK I said.
Now I wanted to buy one for little teeth and it's so hard to find one that isn't branded to death with cars/frozen/star wars.
So this was all local shops, because you know the environment and stuff, I tried to buy this shit not on amazon/online.
Back home I look for alternatives and they are either branded by advertisement or gender, both of which is fine I guess but not the product I wanted to get.
The unbranded gendered stuff is rather no-name (no problem with that) but more expensive, double the price in fact.
The name-product is branded (and gendered by franchise) but cheap due to coupons plus I can buy local.
Probably go for the branded stuff and try to not make a big deal out of it or scratch it off somehow.
I can fathom some "no fun allowed" comments are coming, but I don't want my child to be influenced/manipulated by advertisement when he is not able to defend himself. A lot of people can't do this as grown-ups. I like star wars myself and are happy if he likes it too someday, but there is no reason to brand non-toy products to further brand recognition. A kid should not care if there is the frozen character on their toothbrush and they actually don't unless they see people making a big fuss about it. I really wish for some legislation that would prohibit or limit this shit. Don't get me started on this firefighter guy and the rescue dogs and whatnot. The purest form of consumer manipulation...
Are you annoyed that it is hard to buy kids stuff that doesn't tries to adopt them as future customers or force the parents to be surrogate customers for their children?
Do you care?
Now I wanted to buy one for little teeth and it's so hard to find one that isn't branded to death with cars/frozen/star wars.
So this was all local shops, because you know the environment and stuff, I tried to buy this shit not on amazon/online.
Back home I look for alternatives and they are either branded by advertisement or gender, both of which is fine I guess but not the product I wanted to get.
The unbranded gendered stuff is rather no-name (no problem with that) but more expensive, double the price in fact.
The name-product is branded (and gendered by franchise) but cheap due to coupons plus I can buy local.
Probably go for the branded stuff and try to not make a big deal out of it or scratch it off somehow.
I can fathom some "no fun allowed" comments are coming, but I don't want my child to be influenced/manipulated by advertisement when he is not able to defend himself. A lot of people can't do this as grown-ups. I like star wars myself and are happy if he likes it too someday, but there is no reason to brand non-toy products to further brand recognition. A kid should not care if there is the frozen character on their toothbrush and they actually don't unless they see people making a big fuss about it. I really wish for some legislation that would prohibit or limit this shit. Don't get me started on this firefighter guy and the rescue dogs and whatnot. The purest form of consumer manipulation...
Are you annoyed that it is hard to buy kids stuff that doesn't tries to adopt them as future customers or force the parents to be surrogate customers for their children?
Do you care?