Canada

All kids programming should be commercial free. I don’t have kids, but I’d get fucked up on that hill (probs not die on it, cuz I don’t have kids and it ultimately doesn’t impact me in the slightest)

Kids don’t have money, so at best advertising to them is going manipulate them (because kids are naive as hell and don’t understand what advertisements are until they are older) into wanting things, and create discord in the family by creating a demand that didn’t previously exist (which is literally the point of it). It can also create major interpersonal problems where there weren’t any before if parents can’t afford stuff or whatever.

Plus kids get all the other advertising already - seeing others with things, seeing things in stores, ads on stuff not explicitly for them, etc. They don’t need anything targeted at them exclusively.

If the kid actually likes things, they will let you know and you, the adult, can go look for things that fit that if you want. There is zero reason to manipulate children via advertising other than greed.