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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Emirikol" data-source="post: 1078243" data-attributes="member: 10638">This thread has been brought up before, but I was watching PBS with my 2 year old this morning and saw an AOL commercial.  It always surprised me how companies market to kids:McDonalds:  ClownNestle Quick:  RabbitOn Nogin, I jst saw an add for Dove shampoo for kids, Dish Network (a dancing satellite dish!), Kleenex, Nestle Drumsticks, and a couple other things that surprisingly enough didn't have to do with 'moms.'etc.I just finished reading "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser and he goes over how 'tastes' are determined by age 4 and then cravings are determined for the rest of our lives.  It's not just CN VII (Facial), CN IX (Glossopharyngeal) and CN X (Vagus), but includes psychological cravings as well.Kids that are exposed to things like the Ren fest, castles, dragons, unicorns, knights, D&D, LotR, gaming fellowship, etc. at an early age will continue to associate with those early memories for the rest of their lives.Strangely enough, you don't see much of this marketing for D&D.  Worse, game conventions used to have lots of kids running around and they've regressed back to middle-aged people again.  Is D&D cyclical with fads or does it actually get passed down to kids?  Was it passed down to you?  Or were you 'sold'?Em..</blockquote>