Tuesday, February 12, 2008

The Best of Both Worlds

I let my children watch Hannah Montana, no, I watch Hannah Montana with my kids.  It is something that I never thought I would do until this school year.  We monitor what our kids watch.  My children do not watch spongebob, for example.  Actually, my kids were almost completely limited to PBS and what they see outside of our home (we can't really control that, and yes they have seen spongebob outside of our house).

I am not even sure how Hannah entered into our living room for the first time or where initial exposure took place.  I

know that I was picking Ashli up from a sleepover the first time I saw a Zack and Cody episode and that we don't watch that show.  Some parents just let Disney Channel, Nick, or CN run constantly in their homes and trust the content.  I can not in good faith do this.  I don't supervise everything my children watch but I do try and exercise some jurisdiction especially for 7y/o Ashli.

Hannah made it on to our TV somehow and I have to say that I am completely suprised.  The show harkens back to

my youth and reminds me of shows like Growing Pains, Who's the Boss, Silver Spoons, Different Strokes, and Punky Brewster.  Every episode seems to have a lesson, and I play a game with Ashli to see if she can find it.  For example, Last night Miley lied to her friend Lilly about a party.  Miley, as a consequence didn't have fun at the party and had to go to great lengths to keep the fact that she went a secret.  Lilly in the end finds out and Miley realizes that she should have just told the truth in the first place.  The episode even hits on being loyal to your friends. 

Sure the show has some campiness.  It isn't really educational either.  It is fun for the girls and they love singing along to the songs.  As far as rolemodels go, Ashli could do far worse than Miley Sirus and probably couldn't do much better(at least as far as the teen girl rolemodel arena goes). 

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7 comments:

grrrace said...

i saw a picture of her in concert and she was wearing a little mini school girl skirt. that's the real reason you like to watch it with them isn't it? :P

Budd said...

really? I have never seen her in anything like that. Hannah is getting the ax now.

grrrace said...

LOL. i haven't watched the show at all. i don't know how she is in the show. but i think in concert she wears different things... here's the article.there's a pic there, too. hehe. it's not that risque. well, i don't think it is, anyway...

Budd said...

It is a little more adult than what she wears on the show, but not really risque. She gets a pass this time.

Phil Davis said...

Why are you hating on SpongeBob? He knows karate!

Budd said...

If you have to know. He stole my GF in high school. I have never forgiven him.
No, there is only so much silly that we can allow into our house and still remain sane. by myself, I fill that quotient and then some. Anyway, his Karate is no match for my Chinese Kung-Fu, I must avenge my master.

Jim said...

Glad to see Hannah is recovering ok from her breadown. I thought she might be a bit Britney;but, hey there's still time and alot of Holleywood crack to be smoked.