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Happy Meals are dropping toys for books (for a while)
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ElectricBlanketFire
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Genuinely curious when they'll stop asking if it's for a boy or a girl and just ask which toy you'd prefer.
LongDongJunon
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Strangelove77
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Lame.
So desperate that they are putting potentially less desirable things in their happy meals?
I'm completely fine with this. Depending on the quality of the book and size of the book, it should be a good "early literacy" move. Libraries have been doing this with the United Way and the like in regards to baby kits, but if low-income families can get a "free" book with their fast food purchases (as it's common for low-income to go fast-food over supermarkets) this means they're helping their kid in the long-run provided they actually help the child read/read together.
It's a noble strategy, but I'm not sure how effective it'll be.
It's a noble strategy, but I'm not sure how effective it'll be.
biggersmaller
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As a parent - this is awesome. We have enough toys to run a daycare center in our home, but I will never say we have too many books.
yongeandcollege
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lame. on the rare occasion i take my kids there i expect cheap plastic crap for them to play with that afternoon.
John Kowalski
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Dark Ninja
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Why not give away some sort of app game. Physical books sound expensive
Samurai G0SU
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Catching up to chik fila meanwhile they change their books to build your own toys with stickers and shit.
DJ_Lae
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I noticed this last time I went on the weekend - which is probably the first time I've been to McDonald's in over a year.
Got a Pete the Cat Valentine's book and Pattington Bear. They're obviously dinky books, but they're printed well enough. My daughters liked them - didn't hurt that the Valentine books was one of a few Pete the Cat books they haven't read.
They also included some Valentine's cards, stickers and a little pop-up card.
Better than a shitty toy, i'd say.
Got a Pete the Cat Valentine's book and Pattington Bear. They're obviously dinky books, but they're printed well enough. My daughters liked them - didn't hurt that the Valentine books was one of a few Pete the Cat books they haven't read.
They also included some Valentine's cards, stickers and a little pop-up card.
Better than a shitty toy, i'd say.
tiggerkiddo
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Eh doesn't hurt to get kids interested in reading.
Teach your kids the love of the written word, they will be better people for it. Also helps a lot in school.
ValkyrUser
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If I had gotten a book from a happy meal when I was a kid I probably would of been pissed. The adult me thinks that's great though.
Outtrigger888
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Yep I feel the same. I take my kids there once a month and think it's pretty shitty they throw in apples. I always tell them to substitute the apples for extra fries. Do people seriously take their kids there that often they had to make happy meals some what healthy?
redmetal86
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I probably would have skipped this if I was a kid. I usually didn't ask my parents for a Happy meal during the times when they had toys I didn't like.
Razgriz-Specter
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Actually they tried this before and it didn't work out that well.
evilromero
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Same. I'm really trying to understand why Rabbids, Pokemon, Adventure Time, Turtles, etc were "boy" toys.
DeaconKnowledge
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My daughter has forgotten about the toy by the time we get home from McDonalds. A book would be much better.
ThusZarathustra
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Shoulda been comics
BronsonLee
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The fuck kind of Happy Meal toys did you get?!
Inkvoterad
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They've done this several times in Sweden. Pretty good idea.
yongeandcollege
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You have no idea who you are talking to but thanks for the parenting advice Hemingway.
psychotron
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My wife and I were just talking about this. Her "moms" boards are losing their shit over this, which seems crazy to me. My daughter is 2 /12 and she loves books. This appeals to her even more than some shitty toy. I read her Paddington just the other day and she couldn't get enough. I think it's a wonderful idea.
I don't think it's a controversial thing to say that teaching your kids to love reading is a good thing for them , quite the opposite really. Being well read and enjoying the written word are a gift in of itself, no need to get insulted.
Also thanks for the Hemingway compliment though I have nowhere near his skill!
crazyrabbits
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Not that giving out books is a bad thing, but this just sounds like they're throwing ideas at the wall and seeing what sticks.
Fun fact: If you Google the title of this book, Google gives you a message to seek help and I'm pretty sure I'm on some sort of list since I looked it up a couple months back.
Because "lolita" is a go-to term in child pornography.
I realize that but I don't think Google is the place most child porn perverts are going to use to find their filth.
Just glancing at the search results is that there are tons of links to both the movie and novel without specifying either. These are followed by several businesses that use the word in their name.
Its got some ugly connotations but its not unheard of in totally normal everyday language.
Interesting. I just did it again and didn't get anything. Maybe 2016 is truly the key magic year as when I searched it before it was the far flung past of 2015.
notworksafe
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vita owners to start buying happy meals in droves
Letting kids play with toys isn't detrimental in the slightest
I'm always curious what the person taking the order through the drive thru must be thinking when they ask if it is for a boy or girl and I have to get an answer from my daughter.
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