Parents, what is your reaction when your child asks you for McDonalds? The answer is not difficult because there are only one of two options. You can either give in and pull up to that McDonalds drive-thru or you can say no and mean it. This does not seem like a complex dialogue or discussion but it is certainly becoming just that. Especially when parents are opting to sue McDonalds for having enticing toys rather than telling their kids the word “no”.

Did I Commit A Dating Faux Pas?

I understand that the parents want to feed their children more healthy foods. However it is McDonalds job to sell their product. It is their job to come up with new and exciting ways to not only entice kids but adults as well. Just as it is the parents’ job to determine what their kids can and cannot eat. I’m not buying the crap about the struggle that parents go through when their kids request unhealthy food. Of course they are going to ask for unhealthy foods. They are kids and have no real knowledge of what is good for them versus what is not.

For example, when my nephew was a baby he had a habit of putting things in his mouth as most babies do. If he had decided to put a rubber band in his mouth and chewed it; is the rubber band company then liable for making unhealthy rubber bands? No. Because it was my job as his caretaker to watch what he eats and to make sure that he is eating a healthy diet. It is not the responsibility of the rubber band company. I know comparing rubber bands to McDonalds may seem a bit asinine but in the larger scheme of things their food is comparable in quality. We all have seen the videos of the fries that existed for years without deterioration and heard the studies about McDonald’s foods sitting inside of a human body for years. Yet we still eat it. Go to any McDonalds in a busy metropolitan area on a weekday, during lunch time and you better believe that place will be jumping.

The debate over McDonald’s food is getting old and repetitive. We know that their food is unhealthy. Therefore it then becomes our decision as to whether or not we are going to put it in our bodies. This is our jobs. Just as it is McDonald’s job to come up with different ways to push their crap on us and our children. Parents you have a job to do. Do it. Blaming McDonalds does not alleviate your responsibility as a parent over making the best nutritional decisions for your children.