| Young girls don't have enough good heroines to look | | | | other day. A friend, who also has a daughter too old |
| up these days. Sure, there are lots of cute girls | | | | for Dora and too young for the Housewives, |
| running all over the television, but half of them seem | | | | stumbled across Miley Cyrus. Not only does Miley play |
| to be on the verge of stripping off the rest of their | | | | a great character on her television show, she also is |
| clothes and the other half are unbelievably | | | | a quality person off the screen. |
| goody-two-shoes. I was a girl myself once, and I can | | | | Onscreen Miley plays a girl who struggles with her |
| still remember Punky Brewster and the girls on Full | | | | true self and leans on her friends and family for |
| House. It just seems like now that I'm a mother, I | | | | support. She dresses appropriately, but fashionably, |
| can't seem to find the same "normal" type of | | | | and looks healthy and happy. She is everything I |
| characters for my daughter to watch. | | | | know my daughter is and offers her a role model she |
| Role Model | | | | might try to emulate. |
| I know that I am the best role model my child needs. | | | | Off screen, there is even more to Miley Cyrus. She is |
| I already do what I can to avoid some of the nastier | | | | a real singer with a real solid wholesome family. She |
| curse words around her and find nice things to say | | | | lives with her family who tries to protect her from |
| to and about everyone. (Believe me, it's definitely a | | | | the crazy Hollywood lifestyle and actually attends |
| challenge sometimes.) I carefully screen her friends | | | | church every Sunday. Her father is a famous singer, |
| (and her friends' parents) to make sure she isn't | | | | and Miley is working to become one herself - in fact |
| going to be hanging out with the next Brittany | | | | she's already there. A wholesome family girl who |
| Spears or Lindsay Lohan, but there is definitely | | | | goes to church while following her dreams? What |
| something lacking still. | | | | else could a mother ask for? |
| When I sit down to watch television with my | | | | Building Up Miley Cyrus |
| not-so-little girl in the evenings, I want to find | | | | So without being obvious about it, I starting working |
| something that everyone can enjoy and something | | | | to build up a "relationship" between Miley and my |
| that is appropriate for everyone. This leaves out | | | | own rising starlet. We watched her show together; |
| 99% of the reality shows and anything on a music | | | | we shopped to find clothes like her. I even found |
| channel. As far as evening television shows go, there | | | | some online Miley Cyrus dolls on that were a big hit. |
| just isn't much out there that satisfies the whole | | | | I'm not looking to raise a clone of Miley, and my |
| family. | | | | daughter would never allow it, but if my angel is |
| A Stroke of Luck | | | | willing to look up to Miley, I'm certainly not going to |
| Fortunately, we had a serious stroke of luck the | | | | discourage it! |