Topics:<\/b> Children; Contentment; Discontent; Envy; Family; Greed; Materialism; Media; Money; Peer Pressure; Possessions; Prosperity; Riches; Television; Values; Worldliness<\/p>\n
References:<\/b> Matthew 6:19\u201321; Luke 12:15\u201333; 1 Timothy 6:17\u201319<\/p>\n
Kids are significantly targeted and influenced by advertising. Following are some findings reported in U.S. News & World Report<\/i> in 2004:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Twenty-six percent of kids ages two and under have a TV in their room.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Advertisers spend $15 billion a year telling kids what\u2019s hot.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The average American child sees 40,000 commercials a year.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Children recognize Lego bricks by eighteen months; by age two, many ask for products by brand name.<\/p>\n
American parents do little to correct this trend; rather, they seem to be encouraging it. According to the magazine:<\/p>\n
\u2022 American kids get an average of 70 new toys a year.<\/p>\n
\u2022 In 1984, children ages four to twelve spent $4.2 billion of their own pocket money. In 2004, they were estimated to spend $35 billion.<\/p>\n
\u2022 In 2004, children were predicted to influence $670 billion worth of parental purchases, both small (which snacks to buy) and large (which SUV).<\/p>\n
\u2014Katy Kelly and Linda Kulman, \u201cKid Power,\u201d usnews.com (September 13, 2004)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Topics: Children; Contentment; Discontent; Envy; Family; Greed; Materialism; Media; Money; Peer Pressure; Possessions; Prosperity; Riches; Television; Values; Worldliness References: Matthew 6:19\u201321; Luke 12:15\u201333; 1 Timothy 6:17\u201319 Kids are significantly targeted and influenced by advertising. Following are some findings reported in U.S. News & World Report in 2004: \u2022 Twenty-six percent of kids ages two and under … Continue reading “INDULGING
\n KIDS”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}