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  [artexpress94-hotmail-] Questions:

How do we teach our children to be mindful consumers in a hyper consumer society that bombards us with the idea that we must have things and even feel that we need to have these things.  How do we teach them to distinguish between a need and a want. I cannot put my children in a plastic bubble although sometimes I would like to. I try to teach my kids to watch  Television commercials with a critical thinking mind.  I tell my eleven year old daughter that the purpose of the ad is to make her want that item to feel she needs to have it. She experienced a lesson that helped bring my message to her home.  We bought a certain shampoo because she wanted shiny hair like the commercial promised she would have after using their product.  After several weeks of using it, her hair (no matter how much she washed it) looked greasy, heavy, and dull. I began to wonder if she was washing her hair at all; in fact a couple of times I sent her back into the shower to wash her hair again. When I took her to her twice a year haircut to cut her split ends, I mentioned this to the hairdresser.  She informed us that this particular shampoo "Pantene Pro V" causes a waxy build up, and is not good for hair.  My daughter asked me later, "Why do they lie on TV?"  I could not answer exactly why, but she learned the lesson to trust her own experience rather than what the commercial tells her.  She learned that television ads do not always tell the truth.   

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