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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
I certainly don't want the government, especially a stinking city council, saying I can't have one because somebody else might try to let their kid live on the damn things.
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But they didn't say that. All they said was they can't put a toy inside the bag with your cheesesteak. And if you think the toys don't play a role, just ask my stepdaughter, who at the age of 10 was trying to convince us that she should be allowed to order
two kids' meals, because she wanted more food than was in a single kids' meal, but wanted that stupid piece of plastic so badly that she didn't want to order off the adult menu. She was way too old to even care about the things, at least half the time she just threw them away... but it was a free toy, and who knows what it might be?! She didn't want to miss out on that!
Yes, in an ideal world everything ought to be up to the parents. But the reality is, parenting is hard enough without businesses making it more difficult. They are not letting the parents fairly decide what they want for their children, they are deliberately pitting the children against the parents, and hoping that the parents cave to a bad decision. They put toy displays all over the grocery store, and candy displays in all the checkout lines, because they
want the kids to make a scene.
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and from the numbers I've seen, most kids don't go that often.
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I'm not buying these stats. Sure, they only go to McDonald's once a month... and they only go to Burger King once a month... and they only go to Chick-Fil-A once a month... and they only go to Taco Bell once a month...
The regular kids that I know--and these are in moderately self-righteous suburban soccer mom circles to begin with, all of these parents would insist they feed their kids "pretty healthy"--they eat at one fast-food place or another about once a week.