Thursday, November 10, 2011

Effects of advertisement on Children

Kids are among the connoisseurs of advertisements; they are extremely good at identifying logos, singing along to jungles, quoting slogans and the like, and are at most times fascinated the by products sold.

They nag parents into buying commodities. But there is more to this, ads have a way of distorting reality and creating fake ideals and. When ideas on how to behave, what is cool and what is not is picked from advertisements, there is certainly something to worry about, on how influential these advertising strategies are.Kids are the age group that is least resistant to advertisement, and the effects of advertisement on children cannot be ignored under any circumstance. Advertising to children below twelve has been banned in numerous countries. Children when attracted to the artificial world created by advertisements are seen to lose happiness without materialistic gains. There is also the danger of bad habits like junk food eating is picked up from advertisements, which certainly needs to be controlled

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