Apple mania leaves me with a sour taste

Consumerism is really bad to children. Also, advertisements trigger kids want to buy what they don’t need and parents are pressured to pay for it. Children are educated by advertisement that is ok to have nice things. Children want to be the most fashionable and they want to wear the most expensive clothing or high-end products. Children often want to but the products that are advertised and they will do anything to get their parents to buy by giving tantrums that their parents easily give in. Parents can no longer afford their Children demands. Consumerism has reached a new level of dangerous pursuits for children. The news outlet chinadaily.com.cn recently posted an article online that a 17 year old student who sold one of his kidneys to a dealer he met online to buy an iPad 2. His parents learned about it called the police on the dealer. As the article shows, children can put themselves in grave danger when their desire for certain items makes them act in ways that can create disastrous consequences. This is a phenomenon that if left unchecked it can cause tremendous damage to children growing up in today’s consumer society.