Desserts For Kids

Fear is not the best way to land you a dessert

In one of these commercials, the lady playing the role of mother is seen telling the children a scary story. She is speaking in a sort of whisper, looking everywhere but at the children, making full use of the frightening words she is speaking.

The two children are with their mother in a tent. I suppose they are on a little vacation outing.

Just then the mother says something scary and the “dad” makes a loud noise outside the tent, and the children, fright written all over their faces, run screaming out of the tent, into the darkness.

In the next scene, the “mom” and “dad” are enjoying a dessert in the tent, supposedly an adult dessert. It seems the point of the whole commercial was to get rid of the kids so the “parents” could enjoy their “adult” dessert.

This ill-advised commercial, coming at a time so close to Mother’s Day and Father’s Day makes a mockery of those two great celebrations.

I can understand having a dessert for adults, but I can’t understand scaring children just so the adults can be alone to enjoy the dessert.

OK, I know it’s just a commercial, but wouldn’t it make more sense to have two desserts, one for the children and another for the parents? After all, that’s what parenting is all about. It’s not about scaring children. There are many scenarios that make more sense than the one depicting children screaming and running out of a tent into the night, scared half to death.

How nice it would have been to see a scene where the parents and children are enjoying a dessert late at night, together! Good parents share; they don’t frighten their children so they can be alone to enjoy a dessert.

I saw another commercial along those same lines a little later. I can only hope that won’t become a trend. Scaring people is not funny, and when children are the ones being frightened, it’s even less funny. I know I will never buy that particular dessert simply because of that ill-conceived commercial.

Now, speaking of commercials, I need to get this off my chest. A few weeks ago, a young man came over wanting to put a sign in our yard. Friends of mine happened to be here at the time. He asked me lots of questions, and after I had answered some of them, I excused myself and closed the door. One of my friends pointed out to me that I had given the guy too much personal information. I realized immediately she was right.

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