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