I'm a pretty mellow Mom. There are a lot of things out there that don't bother me. But this weekend the Disney Channel, of all things, finally tripped my Mom-censor.
Shake It Up seems to be a fairly new show. I haven't quite gotten the basic plot line, but it seems to involve girls dancing a lot.
This weekend, my daughter and her friend were watching Disney Channel in the background while the adults were having coffee and chatting. Suddenly, I heard *this* snippet of conversation between two characters:
Girls finish a dance number at a senior center.
Older Woman at Senior Center: "You call that dancing? I did better than that when I was a Vegas Showgirl....And I did it in my birthday suit!"
I immediately got up, walked over, and turned the TV off. I've seen some dubious things, but HOW did that get past Disney's quality control? The answer has to be that it was deliberate to add a bit of shock value and further Disney's goal of making it cool for teens.
So, let me get this straight. Disney thinks it is OK to glorify strippers in its teen programming????!!!!
That's not OK. They just lost two families and probably more once I get the word out to the rest of the parent circle. Disney just earned a lockout on our parental control, and all Disney programs are going to either be eliminated or pre-screened in our household. Disney is mixing preschooler programming with PG-13 programming now. That lockout is going to stay until she is at least 14.
I'm not a letter writer. But I'm writing a letter about this incident today to Disney. This episode was called "Give It Up" (series 1, episode 3) aired on Sun Jan 23, 2011 when we saw it.
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Given the amount of time that I have to audit programming, this new family policy means that pretty much all Disney programming will be eliminated. I just don't have time to be watching "kid" shows. And I don't want my 7-year-old exposed to these things.
So, Goodbye "Hannah Montana", "iCarly", "Suite Life of Zack and Cody", etc. --not that she really got to watch those anyway but I didn't actively block them.
And unfortunately, Goodbye "Handy Manny", "Phineas and Ferb", and "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse" because I'm locking out the channel.
I'm not normally the kind of parent who voices a concern about a tv show, however I recently watched an episode of "shake it up" with my daughter and was in shock. Cece and Rocky were locked in a dressing room and to pass the time they were inhaling the helium from a bunch of balloons.
I cannot believe that Disney would allow such a behavior knowing the inhaling and huffing are a serious problem among children and teens these days.
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