The author is correct when
he says that businesses try to get children to nag their parents so that the
parents will purchase the item for their children form the business. Even
though children are young, they can be very influential when it comes to the
items their parents purchase. If a child nags his or her parents enough, his or
her parents will eventually purchase the item the child wants, whether it is a
happy meal or a candy bar. Parents tend to listen to their child so that they
won’t have an unhappy child on the parent’s hands.
When I was
younger, I have successfully nagged my parents into purchasing me what I wanted.
Because nagging worked so well, I would use it more and more often. However, throughout
recent years, nagging hasn’t worked so well for me. Perhaps my parents think
that I am old enough to have to earn things that I would like to have.
In a
similar case, my younger siblings can successfully nag our parents into getting
what they want. I think that because my younger siblings are the ‘babies’ of
the family, they often receive special treatment. More often than not, my
younger siblings will get to decide what our family does or where our family
eats. This occurs because my younger siblings tend to nag our parents more than
I do.
All in
all, I agree with the author when he says that children can get their parents
to purchase what the children want, however, it works less when the children
become older, unless they are the ‘babies’ of the family.
