Source:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7z2RR1CgnQ or click here
In this video, the dancing bra tells ghosts stories.
While snowed in, I watched the same shows with my kids. There’s Disney’s iCarly about 3 tweens and their web-based show. There’s a voluptuous dancing bra that makes an appearance from time to tome like the segment above. It seemed harmless enough until I found a Google search for ‘Boobs and Tits’ in my computer’s history.
Then there’s “The Suite Life on Deck” where smart-alecky kids lie all the time. And the show finds it acceptable and humorous most of the time. So, my 10-year old lied about feeding the dog until the poor animal foraged for food in the garbage last night.
These are Disney shows but they’re nothing in moral content like those from the Wonderful World of Disney decades ago. So, I’m cutting out cable TV. And I’ll give a good-night talk in the way St. John Bosco did to his homeless youth. The good-night talk is done after night prayers and contains a moral lesson from something that happened during the day. That is how St. John Bosco made faith part of life. And psychologically, it is a most effective time to instill good thoughts. The talk is followed by the great silence – in the monastic tradition where no one talks unless it is an emergency. That silence ushers in sleep but also combats dissipation and distractions. The serenity and stillness brings recollection and a sense of God’s awesome and mysterious presence.
The reckless distractions from TV has to be not only filtered out but replaced with wholesome and spiritual thoughts.
(Cross posted from http://divine-ripples.blogspot.com/2010/02/icarlys-dancing-bra-suite-life-of-zack.html )
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Wow, I had no idea about either of those. Thanks for the reminder that not everything with the Disney brand is apppropriate these days.
We have noticed that more and more Disney has been straying from Walt's vision of a family network. In fact, so much of TV has things like this or subliminal messages that promote "popular culture". We are giving up TV as a family this lent (putting it in the closet) and instead will spend our evenings reading the Chronicles of Narnia as a family with my wife and I taking turns reading. We're hoping to break the slave hold that TV gets on us through Lent this year.
Wow. This one hits really close to home. First, my "older" kids, 7, 10 and 11, like icarly. I've watched a few minutes and never saw the dancing bra.
Second, my kids, especially the 10 and 11 year old, are having some problems with the truth, and it even involved our 11 year old not feeding the dog when he said he had.
Banning their favorite television shows are a good way to make your children resent you.
Drew, I think kids get over such things. However, if TV shows are that important to them -they should be banned on principle so they understand exactly how unimportant they are.
Icarly is from Nickeldeon not Disney you fool
It's just a bra, you cant blame your child's curiosity on a kids TV show. He ( Im assuming its your son) must have already known about boobs before he watched icarly, otherwise he wouldn't have typed "tits" into google, as he wouldn't have known what they were. it's not like he saw a bra on TV and instantaneously had both the desire and the vocabulary to look up porn on the internet. as a psychologist, I can tell you that having such a strict policy against anything even remotely to do with sex can have serious repercussions
later in life, including social detachment or even sexual deviance (I know it seems strange) when they inevitably DO learn about sex .
as for your other child lying about feeding the dog, I'm cant believe you're actually surprised by this. KIDS DON'T LIKE CHORES, and will try to get out of doing them. He didn't learn the concept of lying from a TV show, lying comes naturally and is actually a sign of a developing young mind, I would honestly be more concerned if he couldn't lie (and by this I mean incapable of lying) as this could be a sign of autism or severe psychosis.
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