Is shopping with children fun or not? Secrets of shopping with children: combining business with pleasure Middle and economical price segment

Sooner or later, all parents face the “child in the supermarket” problem.

It’s one thing to go with your daughter or son to a bakery for Borodinsky, but going to a supermarket or a large shopping center correctly is a whole science! That's right - this is without damage to the child's psyche and without damage to the parent's wallet.

Everything's under control

Contrary to the desire of many mothers to protect their child from everyday problems, it is better to comprehend the wisdom of going “shopping” from a young age. It is advisable for the baby to sit in a stroller or strapped into a children's bicycle. This makes it easier to control the grasping reflex of a baby, who is simply not able to drive past bright packaging or catch the mirror surface of a display window with his palm.

Don’t be lazy to periodically bend down and inform your child about your actions. Comment on what you take from the shelves, why, and how this or that product is useful. By communicating with the baby, you will not give him any chance to fall asleep. And this often happens to kids who are just beginning to master shopping skills. To make shopping with children a pleasure, do not stay in the store for half a day. And then shopping together will not be a burden, but a joy.

This is cool!

Having formed the right attitude towards consumption in the child and competently built a model of behavior in the shopping center, the mother will never experience discomfort from going to the store with her child.

Put in a little work and explain to your daughter or son what is good in the store and what is expensive. And then you won’t have to look for a nanny who will agree to stay with your child for “half an hour” (which often stretches) while you shop.

In addition, shopping can be turned into an educational hour. Tell your daughter why these domestic apples are better than those beautiful imported ones. Explain to your son why it is better to take diet bread from the shelf than a package of chips. Such practical “activities” for children are much more useful than boring moral teachings.

Unlike the husband, who dislikes shopping even more than his mother-in-law, children can be taught to walk around the store to their advantage.

It's horrible!

Tears, hysterics, demands to buy an elephant or a remote control helicopter - all this is fully felt by parents who did not explain to their child in time the meaning of the magic word “no”. As long as the child does not cry, at first they buy him what the young buyer pointed his finger at. And then the problem of shopping with children becomes far from a toy problem.

A cute child, entering a store, turns into a monster, frightening both sellers and buyers with his scream. As you approach the checkout, the situation can only get worse. It’s not for nothing that there are shelves with chewing gum, candies and chocolate eggs there. The availability of these children's joys and caries provocateurs forces children to organize the second part of the Marlezon Ballet.

If you are not sure that your baby will adequately endure joint shopping, choose those stores that have educational rooms and children's animators. This will save your and your baby’s nerves.

Amusement in a trolley

The main thing is that a trip to the supermarket does not replace a child’s trip to a puppet theater or a trip to the forest. Getting used to enjoying trips to the cart between shelves with cookies, candies or, even better, toys, it is already difficult to drag the baby to the park. There is no such change of scenery. And you won’t be satisfied with the flowers from the flowerbed. Why look at grasshoppers in the grass, if life-size catfish and bream in the aquarium of the fish department look much more appetizing.

Look for a middle ground and let your shopping experience with your children be interesting and meaningful.

Children's shopping

Children go shopping both with their parents and independently. The choice of purchase depends on this. If a child is allowed to go to the store alone, he is not given very much money. Therefore, his purchases are limited to chips, sweet carbonated water, sweets, chocolate, etc. There is a lot of talk abroad about the dangers of such purchases for children’s health. In America, there was even a law banning the sale of these products near children's educational institutions.

When a child goes shopping with his parents, he realizes that his potential shopping opportunities increase. He begins to ask his parents to buy this or that thing that he cannot buy himself. This could already be a toy, a colorful book, a bicycle and other sports equipment, etc.

Parents, experiencing pressure and pressure from their children, often give in to them and buy the required goods. Otherwise, mothers will never enjoy their own shopping experience, for which they came to the store.

Meanwhile, the demand and desires of children to purchase certain goods are increasing thanks to children's advertising. This type of advertising in Russia has just begun to develop. But children's channels are already appearing, which are filled with similar advertising aimed only at children. There are a lot of children's advertisements on regular television as well. Various bars, chocolates, yoghurts, sparkling water, chewing gum - all this is advertised in large quantities.

Children love to watch advertising because it is colorful and interesting, it has a lot of changing pictures, and most importantly, it is short. Many kids, not yet understanding not only the words, but even what is depicted in the advertising video, nevertheless look at the screens in fascination, unable to look away. From infancy, children’s subconscious is imprinted with the pictures they see while watching TV every day.

At the age of 3–4 years, a person lays the foundation of character and preferences that will begin to manifest themselves at an older age. As soon as the child begins to understand what is what from the advertised things, he will begin to desire it and beg for purchases from his parents. He has a particularly passionate desire to achieve and get his way when some thing is popular among other children - his friends and girlfriends.

Recently, there has been a clear increase in sales of children's products. Stores specializing only in children's assortment began to appear. This is due not only to the emerging demand, but also to the increased willingness of parents to spend more money on children's products than before. The reasons for this lie, on the one hand, in the fact that many parents began to earn more, and on the other hand, in the fact that a lot of cheap, bright children's products are coming from abroad. True, these products are mostly of low quality and even pose a danger to children’s health. Thus, toys and clothing from Asia contain toxic substances. Basically, it all comes down to the paint used and the material from which the products are made. In Europe, such things are not allowed for sale.

Toxic substances contained in toys can significantly affect the health and development of a child.

However, the brightness of the colors attracts the attention of both parents and children. There is no educational work being carried out among the population to explain what is useful and what is harmful for children. Advertising dominates everywhere, which is always silent about the shortcomings and harmful effects.

Meanwhile, even child psychologists are beginning to raise the alarm about the wrong toys. The images that are created by toy designers form in the child incorrect ideas about the world around him, animals, people, etc. Scary images of toys can lead to mental trauma.

Various trends and hobbies also contribute to children’s desire to acquire this or that thing. For example, having purchased a Barbie doll, parents will soon hear requests to buy girlfriends and friends for Barbie, a dollhouse, etc. Toy creators are constantly puzzling over what could captivate children.

Computer games have also become a fashionable hobby for children. The child spends hours on end playing, neglecting homework and socializing with friends. This affects the child's social development. He becomes withdrawn and uncommunicative. Meanwhile, more and more interesting games are being created that take children into the virtual world of robots, vampires, sorcerers, soldiers, etc. All this also negatively affects the child’s psyche.

This text is an introductory fragment. From the book Change your brain - your life will change! by Amen Daniel

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