Children are the Future

I think teaching marketing to kids before the teenage years will encourage creativity, awareness and confidence. Through TV shows and even packaging on favorite snack foods, children are exposed to marketing on a daily basis. Rather than putting blinders on them, I feel we should allow them to understand the purpose of certain statements and why they are worthy of their attention. Upon children’s learning how to critically think of influence and storytelling as a means to convey thoughts, they are taught to interpret the world around them.

For the children, marketing should never be presented through lecture or note learning. Marketing for children should be within the realm of fun and creativity, instilling the curiosity needed. Children are spontaneous learners, so let the lessons offer learning through fun experiences. Children learn well through fun potential, so the lesson could be more creative: Design your own cereal boxes, inventing commercials, teaching how colors, logos mean etc. If the lesson is presented in visual, experiential and in tune with the age, children would automatically absorb the concept without it being of a forced ideal.

When a child learns the business of marketing, it becomes soon realized that the business of marketing or marketing is not a business subject as understood. Marketing turns into a communicatory or self-revealing outlet through their competitive type of educational perspective obtained. It teaches children empathy through thoughts, the means of storytelling, and the influence of thought bestowed upon community in the communication of thought. I feel this way, because I think that By giving the young acceptance and offering their marketing mindedness, they are not only being molded for futurism as future careers, but they are early molding the imagination and the confidence that medium of thought who knows its purpose in dealing with people through creative thought basis and purpose with ideas.