WASHINGTON—A mother of two from Sacramento, Calif., says that McDonald’s uses toys as bait to induce her kids to clamor to go to McDonald’s and to develop a preference for nutritionally poor Happy Meals. With the help of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, today the mom, Monet Parham, is filing a class action lawsuit aimed at stopping McDonald’s use of toys to market directly to young children. The suit will be filed in California Superior Court in San Francisco shortly after the court opens for business Wednesday morning.Dear Mrs. Parham, you're the mommy, not McDonald's. Just because your little princess demands a Happy Meal doesn't mean she gets one...unless you have the backbone of a squid. Try saying "No".
According to Parham, the main reason her six-year-old daughter, Maya, asks to go to McDonald’s is to get toys based on Barbie, i-Carly, Shrek, or Strawberry Shortcake. The food seems almost beside the point to the kids, says Parham, because the toy monopolizes the attention of Maya and her two-year-old sister Lauryn.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Food Nazis Aid Mom With Bad Parenting Skills
I don't know how else to describe this story:
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So the food "seems almost beside the point to the kids" and "the toy monopolizes the attention" of the children? So if the child is distracted from the egregious food by the toy, isn't that a good thing? Why doesn't mommy-clueless just throw the bad food away? Oh yeah, she's going to make sure they eat it since she paid for it.
A pillar of maternal virtue she is not.
A squid has more of a backbone than this twit.
Sorta reminds me of the old story about the guy who kills his parents and pleads for his life on the grounds that he's an orphan.
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