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Recommendation and Relationship Check

Read the message before making the purchase decision.

Fifteen minutes for one reading or family decisionFree · Two-page fillable PDF

Companion to Help Your Child Notice When a Recommendation Is Also an Advertisement.

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Hypothetical example: A sponsored case demonstration shows its color; the family still checks the actual dimensions before deciding whether it fits.

01Pause at the recommendation, not only at the price

Record the exact product recommendation and the claim you heard.

Product being recommended

Actual claim in the example

What the child understood

02Notice the relationship the creator discloses

Identify the disclosed relationship without guessing at unreported payments.

Disclosure words exposed

Relationship those words describe

Relationship detail still unknown

03Give the product a question of its own

Write the practical product question the household needs answered.

Household job for this product

Information needed for that job

Appropriate place to check it

04Keep permission separate from persuasion

Separate the adult permission decision from the creator’s recommendation.

Adult purchase decision

Reason we can explain honestly

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