{"id":14,"date":"2012-10-08T23:22:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T06:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sandrawoo\/?p=14"},"modified":"2012-10-08T23:22:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T06:22:24","slug":"baby-see-baby-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sandrawoo\/2012\/10\/08\/baby-see-baby-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby See, Baby Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/timburke\/2012\/09\/13\/advertising-to-children-good-or-bad\/\">Tim Burke<\/a> from my COMM 101 class wrote a brief summary about companies that advertise towards children. Although his points are valid, I disagree with his views on supporting advertising to children.<\/p>\n<p>When I watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Gz8dsR5vPzM\">McDonald\u2019s baby advertisement<\/a>, I observed a couple of main points. As the video starts, the baby is<strong> alone <\/strong>swinging in a room in front of a window. I felt like this symbolized that the video specifically to targeted children. The baby is swinging in a chair and begins smiling when he sees the golden arches of McDonalds and cries when he doesn\u2019t. This imagery suggests that the baby, who doesn\u2019t know any better about his personal health, is unable to control his emotions without being able to eat McDonalds. At the end of the video, the maid\/mother comes into the room and even smiles while\u00a0<strong>acknowledging <\/strong>his behavior as if it\u2019s completely normal for him to be acting that way.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s true that parents should watch over their child and stop blaming advertisements. However, it\u2019s not always easy for a parent to completely ignore their child\u2019s wants and needs, even if it\u2019s bad for their health like McDonald\u2019s is.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.proteinpower.com\/drmike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/_freeform_images_mcdonaldsfeed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Children and Mcdonalds\" src=\"http:\/\/www.proteinpower.com\/drmike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/_freeform_images_mcdonaldsfeed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">&lt;Photo Source: Google Images. Baby Eating MCdonald&#8217;s Cheeseburger. McDonald\u2019s AT. February 10, 2004.&gt;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Burke from my COMM 101 class wrote a brief summary about companies that advertise towards children. Although his points are valid, I disagree with his views on supporting advertising to children. When I watched McDonald\u2019s baby advertisement, I observed a couple of main points. As the video starts, the baby is alone swinging in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14769,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sandrawoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sandrawoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sandrawoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sandrawoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14769"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sandrawoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sandrawoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sandrawoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sandrawoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sandrawoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sandrawoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}