Mom, I Want A Snuggie!

It's become apparent that my five-year-old pays close attention to the advertisements during his daily allowance of TV.  He's informed me that there are diapers that stretch and move with your baby - "shouldn't we have those for my baby brother?"  Half of his birthday wish list was comprised of items "As Seen On TV" such as the Zero Gravity Micro Car and the RC Helicopter Apache.

It's one thing to try to convince kids they want to consume blue yogurt because there's a cool looking kid on a skate board on the container. Or hamburgers with 50 grams of fat to get a $0.05 lead-infused plastic toy that will break in the car on the way home from the fast food restaurant, causing endless tears.  Or collect fifty CARS movie cars, half of which are no longer made so you have to search for them on eBay - not that I would know anything about that! Or collect Bakugans (like any 5 year old can figure out that game!) or Transformers (when they can't even see the movie) or YUGIOh/Gundam/Pokemon whatever-the-heck cards and/or action figures.  I know my kids will ask for these and I will tell them to put them on their birthday/Christmas list, then I'll choose just a few items off of said list.

But the most recent addition to his wish list was a Snuggie.  A SNUGGIE!  "It's BIG, and it's a BLANKET, and it comes with these SLIPPER SOCKS, and it's BLUE and I want one, Mom!"

ENOUGH, television advertisers.  With all due respect to adults who choose to wear Snuggies, I will not have my child traipsing around in one.  Talk about a ticket to social ostracism.  Have you seen that family in the TV ad at the football game?  They look like a bunch of cult members waiting to catch a ride on Halley's comet!  Come on!  Growing up is hard enough without saddling a kid with that sort of baggage.

Sorry son, don't even bother putting it on the wish list.  Not. Gonna. Happen.