I believe we can program our children as young as the infant age about real meaning of Christmas. We need do now, or else we will have generation of selfish adult's raising more selfish children. Remember, our baby's really want's our attention, not toy's to conversant for our love. Toy's have never built a relationship with children, your inter reaction with them did the trick. In fact, toy's are used to distract the from the parent's while they are doing something else in the home in most cases. As they grow up the same altitude in life will applied, no peer's, no big purchase's will replace love. They will certainly learn by this thumb a rule you have already set in motion for them. "Believe me" your children will know when they are being loved from false love act from a stranger. Even as a full grown adult's we relate how much a person can do for us financially with love, which is not at true. Society have been so brainwashed expecting gift as a token of their love. You take that equation gift's & money out the mix, you cut down crime, heartbreak's, breaking of marriage's. We need to help our children grow up to be productive adult's without this ideal of this type of gift's is everything. We must take charge our children's live's as our parent did in our day's. We wasn't given everything we see and hear about on some ad on TV. In, fact children played with their friend's, instead of expensive computer gift's, they enter act with other playing other feel game's. We can not allow the toy industry to control our children thinking only to get a lock on our pocket book's as parent's. We must plan of action,by creating our own financial belt tightening. Learning to say the word "No" can be difficult, but it's does work, just try it.

Don't allow these toy industries to run you into bankrupt with your credit card's,saving account's,all because of a emotional guilty feeling you are not keeping up with the Jones' with their children's desire's to buy these expense toy's item's. "Stop" you don't have to buy your children's love in this way, children only really want your attention anyway. I guarantee 10 to 15 day's after our children play they become bore and through everything you have bought under the bed, in the closed from last year's distance toy's. It's simply a case of a novelty that wear off because it no longer have it 's attention after it's purpose has lost his luster. All it is lust for thing's see that look's good to the eye, soon wilder away with next new novelty come's up. We need to stop this type of madness, who's the grown up in the situation. You buy what you can afford, that's it. Going over-board is putting parent's in a bide, making your children spoiled, out of control in regarding to spending habit's, it's become a vicious circle.

We must plan how we going to spend for our children like we plan for our groceries list. We must budget ourselves to meet our finance's. Alway's keep in mind how much no matter how emotional you become to please your children. Don't take your children shopping with you, that is a bad thing, they will pressure you to spend your last dollar on them. You will end up looking foolish if you really couldn't afford to go deep in your pocket book's. Set a certain amount for each child no matter what age. Stick by your budget, never anyone to influence you thinking. Remember, you are the one in charge.
This is a prime example you should brace yourself at Christmas time.
In Columbus, Ohio, Erin Beth Dower Charron has been trying to brace her 4-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter for more subdued gift-getting this year as the family begins financial belt-tightening.
"My 8-year-old is still holding out hope that Santa will get her that one special gift, but understanding this year may be different," Dower Charron said. "My son doesn't understand. Everything he sees, he wants."
Toy ads on kids' TV shows make the process harder, she said. "The onslaught seems to be more intense this year."
Dower Charron was among the hundreds of parents who took up the suggestion to write to toy companies.
"Help me understand why your toy is the better one for my child, and why it should be one of the few I can afford," she wrote. "Don't leave that up to my children."
The director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, psychologist Susan Linn, said she and her colleagues don't expect toy companies to stop advertising - rather, they want the ads directed at parents.
"It's cruel to dangle irresistible ads for toys and electronics in front of kids - encouraging them to nag for gifts that their parents can't afford," she said. "It's just not fair."
The big toy makers aren't likely to redirect their ads for one fundamental reason, according to Richard Gottlieb, a New York-based consultant to the industry.
"Toy companies advertise to children because it works, to be brutally honest," Gottlieb said in an interview.
Gottlieb also contends that it's good for children to encounter toy ads - even in cases where products later turn out to be disappointments.
"It teaches, for very low stakes, how to navigate in our consumer culture," he said.
"They are going to have to spend the rest of their lives listening to every kind of marketing approach, and childhood is where they will learn to cope with it."
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