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Sep. 28th, 2007 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mommydamaI have protected my children from the mainstream media to some degree. They watch PBS kids and Noggin. They watch parent selected movies from Netflix. But for the most part they've been protected from a lot that their peers know about. We listen to an eclectic mix of music around here, everything from classical and jazz to the college angst music of Brad's and my younger days, quite a bit of Orthodox liturgical music and, of course, the requisite Raffi and Laurie Berkner Band.
However, I think I've made a grave mistake in this department. Flipping channels one day several months ago, I paused on the Disney channel just in time to see and hear the Hannah Montana song "Nobody's Perfect". I thought it was a fun, upbeat song, with a good message. One Maria needed to hear. So I looked it up on Youtube and played it for her the next day. I should have realized what I was unleashing...but I didn't at the time. I thought it was innocent fun.
Maria and Luci have both become obsessed. I ended up downloading the Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus album. Maria listens to it whenever I will allow it. The emotional intensity of her rockin' with Miley is something to behold. This is bubblegum pop at its worst, wholesome and somewhat mindless, sucking you in and forcing you to tap toes and wiggle your head. But I can't laugh. Maria is very serious about this music.
Luci is the funny one. Nearly everyday she asks to watch Hannah Montana videos and, if I allow it, she then gives me the speech: "When I am big like her, I'm going to dance and sing on a stage like that too. Can I mom?" Which leads to an hour of Luci in her finest fairy regalia, leaping around the room with a hairbrush microphone, singing at the top of her lungs. My four year old wants to be a rock star.
What have I done?
However, I think I've made a grave mistake in this department. Flipping channels one day several months ago, I paused on the Disney channel just in time to see and hear the Hannah Montana song "Nobody's Perfect". I thought it was a fun, upbeat song, with a good message. One Maria needed to hear. So I looked it up on Youtube and played it for her the next day. I should have realized what I was unleashing...but I didn't at the time. I thought it was innocent fun.
Maria and Luci have both become obsessed. I ended up downloading the Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus album. Maria listens to it whenever I will allow it. The emotional intensity of her rockin' with Miley is something to behold. This is bubblegum pop at its worst, wholesome and somewhat mindless, sucking you in and forcing you to tap toes and wiggle your head. But I can't laugh. Maria is very serious about this music.
Luci is the funny one. Nearly everyday she asks to watch Hannah Montana videos and, if I allow it, she then gives me the speech: "When I am big like her, I'm going to dance and sing on a stage like that too. Can I mom?" Which leads to an hour of Luci in her finest fairy regalia, leaping around the room with a hairbrush microphone, singing at the top of her lungs. My four year old wants to be a rock star.
What have I done?
