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).
