Beancounters working for Nielson claim that kids aged between six to 12 want an iPad.
It has done a survey and asked them what electronic gear they would like to see Santa bring them.
Among kids ages six to 12, Jobs' Mob's keyboardless netbook outranked the Nintendo DS, iPod Touch, Sony PlayStation Portable, and larger gaming systems such as the PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii.
Nielsen's corporate blog said that with Black Friday approaching, parents may want to get up early Friday morning to find deals.
Or maybe they want to teach their kids that life is not about providing them with every useless gadget they want. Maybe they should sit down and point out the value of consumer discrimination. Too much to hope for, apparently.
If parents do what their children tell them, they will be buying iPads by the bucketload during the Black Friday sales.
About a third of kids age six to 12 expressed interest in owning an iPad within the next six months, leading the survey.
Another third wanted an iPod Touch and a quarter wanted a Nintendo DS.
Among kids older than 13, one in five wanted a smartphone within the next six months, followed by the iPad at 18 percent, Blu-Ray player at 17 percent, e-reader and Nintendo Wii at a respective 15 percent, PlayStation 3 at 13 percent, and iPod Touch at 11 percent.
What is a little disappointing for Microsoft is that only 14 percent of kids between six and 12 expressed interest in Microsoft's Kinect hands-free games controller. Only eight percent of teens wanted one.
Microsoft is pouring millions into marketing the Kinect, however most of the marketing seems to be based around a game where you stroke a tiger and most teens would like something a bit more violent.
Still if you are the sort of family who gives a kid the most expensive gear on the market simply because they wanted it, you really deserve the sort of spoilt brat you have got.
Respect is of vital importance to humanity because through anger, which happens to be guilt at some other moment, destruction issues forth. When one attains respect in that there is no longer anger and therefore neither will there be guilt, something which animals and infants, oka non-thinkers, lack, the individual is paving the way for communion/communication with Divinity - the real one and not the ritualistic mumbo-jumbo one [What?, how do we know what is being relayed/preached is not the real mumbo-jumbo - excellent point - never thought of that, but take it as a fairytale, hokay? At least that saves the cost of a ticket to that looney bin called the “cinema”]. If nothing else, when anger is dominating, the heart, physical and/or otherwise, takes a hit and as in a journey being the sum of all its steps, that hit will not be forgotten and those heart-hits will all add up to one big cardiovascular “imbalance”, oka changing the localised genetics.
When we disrespect, we will not be able to witness and being able to witness and not react, oka sympathy-indifferent, means we have immunity to nonsense, the “overs” and the “unders” in everything that are being thrown at one’s Attention - the attempt at stealing/damaging one’s essence.
A normal human body begins assembling his antibodies until he reaches around 12 years of age and should this process be “over-ed” or “under-ed”, that is when there will be too much or too little immunity. All were children once and the duty of those who have yet to fully developed their antibodies is to their parents/guardians, physiologically/materially, intellectually/”mentally” and emotionally, since conception. When parents act like juveniles because their concept of maturity happens to be based on being able to copulate, rationalise and corrupt, their children will, mostly unknowingly and immaterially, attempt to fill-in the void - to transfer some “energy”, energy as in being spoilt/over-comforted or being made heartless/under-comforted - and all because their dumb-cum-stupid parents/guardians do not know, let alone realise, what or why they exisit for. Groom ‘em young as in “footie-ing”, “podding”, finger-pointing, alcoholing, debating, hallelujahing, and that biggy, disrespecting.
The “fundmentals” of a human being is anchored upon his ten-commandments, oka one’s self mastery/immunity/true-religion [founded upon realisation and not “scripture”] and this aspect of Divinity came in the form of 10 avataras spread over the ages and they all talked of only one thing - one’s self mastery. He was/is Moses, Abraham, Zarathustra, Socates, Confucius, Lao Tze [though the Chinese are not so sure about his reality] and that biggy for “Christians”, “Jews”, and, “Hinduism”, Mohammed [which was why he returned as Guru Nanak to mediate between the Muslims and the non-Muslims]. Should this be a fairytale, and it is so until one has realised/”communicated-thus”, just continue on with the partying but should it be true, what then? The collapse of the Semitic relgions for one, and that would be the biggest “No-No” known to humanity. A nuclear holocaust would be the preferred option. 2men to that.
The first aspect/reality/principle the Primordial Masters taught is - respect. It doesn’t matter if the parent, the screw-nut or the other are unjust, impossible to bear, wrong as hell, and so forth, just ensure that your respect is preserved and maintained otherwise, “they’ve got you/your Attention”. This fundamental immunity is lacking within “Westernised” types where parents and children are treated as equals - especially amongst the new-found know-it-all really know-nothing democrats shackled by the “evil regimes” controlling their country. Afterall, being denied of a Pad and the freedom to porn/gossip/voyuer/rebel is worse than being abandoned for some. And these types are able to vote/buy-votes, decide on The Earth’s well-being, voyage to Mars and beyond, pope- on this and that and much, much, more. The fact about over and under respecting is that others are then relegated to the status of the living-but-dead.
Without respect, one is merely alive whereas with respect, one is truly living whilst realising that Truth/knowledege is first order, the Flow of Truth, oka Love, is second order, and the Flow of Love, oka Joy/Bliss, is third order - the acceleration of Truth. Disrespecting one self is disrespecting others which is disrespecting “The Earth”. We cannot change anything when we do not know, let alone realise, how we are truly constructed and why we are so constructed - for expressing Love/to be truly alive, and not mere “love”/living but not really living, that ever expecting and demanding spoilt brat excused as “others”. Like all aspects Real, knowledge, oka accumulating/owning/possessing that which is not attainable, is not the point, its “speed & acceleration” is [the point]. What knowledge do we need to realised that 1+1=2, that eating one’s stool is not real, or to see an apple without dissecting it on behalf of Fame, Fortune & Immortality. None for Reality is thoughtless, innate and merely flows and accelerates such that when we looked into a mirror, we are able to realise that it is our image/reflection of oneself and not someone else. Bliss is what God liberates/derives when He sees His reflection in those who have attained Him and not those who have tried and are always trying to own Him. Met any religious of faith who does not own his god? You jest. Met any religious of the material-intellect who does not own his knowledge to the point of sleeping with his gadget/achievement? You are not some chappie named jobbie or sump’fink, are you?
If you can harness their inquisitiveness on the iPad, you make a step towards using it as an educational resource having successfully grabbed their attention. Perhaps not buying every asking twelve year old an iPad is the answer, but reading a story with them from yours is.
At Bold we've recently released an App which tells the story of The Heart and The Bottle. Parents and teachers have already started using the App to explore emotive topics with their kids. For example The Heart & The Bottle has been used to explore loss and bereavement with children.
See it in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGfQM9-gILs