wot so funee? wear your seatbelt!

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wot so funee? wear your seatbelt!

drivingtv advertising has a lot to answer for. as parents, we know all too well the dangers of allowing our children to see the adverts whilst watching the latest episode of tracy beaker (that girl has a lot of tweens with a bad attitude on her conscience if you ask me)! and the business of ‘i want…’ drives me mad. thank heavens for sky+ – does anyone watch the ads any more?

well it would seem they do. in an episode reminiscent of michael mcintyre’s 3-year-old requiring cilit bang from santa, a friend recounted this story to me last week:

my son’s friend was over for a play date, and i had offered to drop him back home afterwards. getting into the car, i reminded my charges to put their seatbelts on. “why do you need seatbelts?” he queried.

“well, just in case we had a car accident, you’d be safer if you were wearing your seatbelt, so put it on now,” i instructed.

“oh but it’s fine!” came the confident response. “if we crash, we’ll just call injury lawyers 4 you. you could get £10,000, you know!”

sky+ my friends, it’s an essential parenting tool.

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Comments

  1. January 21, 2014 / 19:11

    hahaha! My girls have quoted adverts before…..lol
    Adverts do have a lot to answer for especially around Christmas time….All the toys they see they want!

  2. January 21, 2014 / 19:28

    Funny! Also: why couldn’t I be that smart when I was young?!

    (Don’t answer that…) 🙂

  3. January 21, 2014 / 20:17

    lol! It’s like school – they come back with all sorts from there too – Ozzy has been singing ‘What does the fox say’ today despite never seeing it here once!

  4. January 22, 2014 / 07:24

    Love this post. That’s hilarious. My son is starting to repeat everything from the tv adverts so I have been sky recording them and skipping fully. But this had me rolling with laughter! Nice to pop over to your blog from Actually Mummy’s for this weeks wots so funee! Off to check out the rest of your blog.

  5. January 22, 2014 / 13:56

    Oh I love it, kids say the greatest things! Adverts though are just terrible, we have Tivo on Virgin, so the same as sky+ really and therefore hardly ever watch adverts.
    Love the idea of sharing the funny things kids do! xx

  6. January 22, 2014 / 21:10

    Kids are like sponges so it’s no wonder they absorbe everything that is said around, cute though!

  7. January 27, 2014 / 11:17

    And they say advertising is dead! Fabulous logic there ;))
    Just sneaking in with a late entry X

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