Jun 25th, 2009
My little Sister kills me at times (in the “I’m inwardly laughing my head off all day sort of way.)
I was going through some month old e-mail in an account I rarely check and found this gem from my little sister.
I thought it was hilarious. She’s 20, in college in another state. Apparently she’s still a fan of the Disney Channel. (No she is not a full time nanny. But she MAKES A GOOD POINT PEOPLE!)
I was watching the disney channel and I saw some stuff that I knew I wouldn’t want my future kids to see. So, I made up a few lies about myself, and what was happening when I was watching it, in order to write a more convincing letter to the president of the disney channel.
I’m looking out for your kids!
Mr. Ross:
My name is (Eve’s little Sister), and I’ve been a fan of the disney channel for many years. I enjoyed disney channel shows as a child, and I now watch them with my nieces and nephews. I’m also a full-time nanny, and when the children I take care of watch tv, I most often choose that channel for them. I choose the disney channel because I believed it to be the cleanest and safest for them to be able to watch without requiring me to peek over their shoulders to make sure that there is nothing in the shows that is too adult for them to be seeing.
Tonight, however, I was sorely disappointed. I watched an episode of “iCarly”, called “iSpy a mean teacher”, with my 8-year-old nephew, in which young teenagers discussed a boob job, and there was a short segment involving a floating, talking bra. As a result, I was forced to explain to my nephew what a boob job was, and what a bra was used for. Those are not questions I would have ever imagined I would need to answer after watching a disney channel show. Those are a discussions that parents should be able to decide to have with their children when they deem it appropriate. They should not be forced to have them because a show that is meant for children has adult content in the script.
This is the only offensive material I have ever come across on the disney channel. For that reason, I will continue to watch it with my younger family members, and the children I take care of. However, I would appreciate it if disney would keep this kind of adult material out of its shows from now on. If, in the future, I find that the channel does not keep its reputation for clean, healthy content for children, my family will not watch anything on the disney channel again, neither will any of the families whose children I take care of.
Respectfully Yours,
Eve’s Little Sister


Good Enough

