Grandpa and Zoey 101
That said we gave him a call last night. Both kids did the customary Hi, How are you, How is your eye, I love you, bye….conversation on the phone. I kind of half-hearted fussed at them about it, but kids and the phone never mix well.
This morning, Demetrius asked me if Grandpa was better today before he sauntered off to school (between barely eating of the breakfast and the brushing of the teeth). I said I didn’t know, but I bet he is.
Demetrius: That’s good. I can still get my presents.
Somehow he’s connected his presents to Grandpa’s eye surgery. Whew, glad it went well for Grandpa!
Do you think that he’ll get more presents now that Grandpa’s vision is better?
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So we don’t watch alot of Zoey 101 on Nickelodeon, its a few years above Maya (I think) and she, as every other elementary girl at Abbotts Hill, is a big fan of Hannah Montana (Disney). That said, I heard on the news this morning that the star of the show has publicly announced at the age of 16 she’s preggers. Now, should anyone be shocked…I mean, teen stars live in another world…even one more upside-down than grown up stars. Then, they drop she’s Brittany Spears little sister…and when she told Brittany, that the paparazzi have pictures of Brittany chasing her out of her house with an umbrella. I’m not surprised. But my thought here is, PR wise, aren’t you risking this media circus when your star on the show is from a completely whacko celebrity family? The negative PR fallout from a somewhat popular show is 10x worse than it ever should have been - because you should have probably not hired the kid. She’s under a scrutiny/media watch than no other kid on your network is under on any given day…even the great SpongeBob!
So how does this tie to this blog?…Well, ultimately because my daughter is moving into a very impressionable age here, where what she watches is as important becuase she likes it as because other girls at school like it, and this is my first taste of ….will I have to explain something to her I don’t want to at the tender age of six (mind you, only ten years younger than Zoey… and child!)? And I don’t think she’s quite big enough to understand that Zoey is a TV celeb, and they don’t live in the real world…and that she’s even one step more removed being related to Brittany Spears…..
Parenting in this case, if I have to explain some things, may be harder than talking with one of Demetrius’ therapists….
I love the simple Christmas logic - do I get my presents? Maybe I will get more?
Emily has been rather curious about that subject, too, and I have been ducking the issue.
Then again - when does the right age come - when they are getting too embarrassed to ask, and get their info from who-knows-where? Or when they ask, but not really listen, because all they can do is giggle?
We do watch Zoey 101 on occassion. I was a bit surprised to hear the news and wonder what Nickelodeon will do about that. Possibly they will hide the pregnancy on the show? Can you imagine if they wrote it into the show? Ahhhh! I would not think that was cool at all.
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