My daughter is 8 and would love to have a Hannah Montana CD. She doesn't because we won't buy it and she'd rather use her money for other stuff (thank God for the Nintendo DS). I wasn't thrilled when she came home from her first summer at day camp (age 5) singing Hilary Duff songs, so we talked about it.
When I sent my kid to daycare at 8 months I knew that was the end of my control over what she heard, read or saw. She knows what we think about Disney and Nickelodeon, and she knows why. She knows what music we like, and given her own choice these days will probably play Springsteen or Tom Petty or Indigo Girls (yes, we're old and square) but I know she listens to Hannah Montana with her friends.
I think Bikini Kill lyrics would go over her head right now. I suspect if she thought about them they'd scare her. I could deal with that, if I had to, although I'd as soon now. I agree that the parent had every right to be upset, and that the appropriate ways to deal with her distress would be to talk to her child and to the camp, not to Faux News.
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Jay said on August 17, 2008:
My daughter is 8 and would love to have a Hannah Montana CD. She doesn't because we won't buy it and she'd rather use her money for other stuff (thank God for the Nintendo DS). I wasn't thrilled when she came home from her first summer at day camp (age 5) singing Hilary Duff songs, so we talked about it.
When I sent my kid to daycare at 8 months I knew that was the end of my control over what she heard, read or saw. She knows what we think about Disney and Nickelodeon, and she knows why. She knows what music we like, and given her own choice these days will probably play Springsteen or Tom Petty or Indigo Girls (yes, we're old and square) but I know she listens to Hannah Montana with her friends.
I think Bikini Kill lyrics would go over her head right now. I suspect if she thought about them they'd scare her. I could deal with that, if I had to, although I'd as soon now. I agree that the parent had every right to be upset, and that the appropriate ways to deal with her distress would be to talk to her child and to the camp, not to Faux News.