Are kids what they wear, or is advertising out of control?

in Faith Health by Bill Hadala — June 28, 2010 at 1:09 am | 0 comments

Peer pressure.  What would society look like without it?  If you turn on the television you can’t but notice all the commercials enticing the youth to live a life as if you are part of the show.  All too often what kids see on the Internet and television dictate their ways of being at school as it isn’t cool not to look like what you see on tube.

Over the years peer pressure has increased and a recent online article entitled, “Clothing advertisements might have a bad influence on your kids“, says it all.  If you are a parent this is a topic you know all too well unless you are a parent who continues to give your children everything they could ever want.

Now it’s not bad to dress your children in brand name clothes, yet the kids who can not afford the brand name clothing are often made to feel bad by their peers.  Regardless if kids wear brand name clothes or not more times than not they are all watching the same advertisements which creates the same desires and needs whether it be healthy or not.

Sure television and the Internet is entertaining but all the content we watch is powered by advertising.  It’s what makes the world go around.  It would be nice to see more advertising that is positive, but as parents it is important to talk to your kids at a young age about social influences, specially peer pressure.  Conversations with your children on this topic should focus on what they wear doesn’t make them who they are and no matter how old they are in life people will always look down on all of us no matter what it may be.  Kids need to understand this is okay, and to look beyond the judgments of their peers as they should take comfort in knowing they were created to be a unique treasure in the world.  In our uniqueness comes the strength of knowing you are different versus conforming to what the world telling us how we need to look to belong.

Would our children rather be sheep being herded or unique individuals who find strength in their uniqueness regardless of the clothes we wear and the commercials we see on the Internet and/or t.v.?

I would definitely check out the article, “Clothing advertisements might have a bad influence on your kids” to learn more.

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