Re: Mr. Hannah Montana's Achy Broken Heart

> I wonder about that. Do the trainwrecks truly outnumber the "clean 
> ones" or do we just never hear about the "clean ones" because they go 
> on to boring normal lives, like being a school teacher or something?

Yeah, I was going to make that point. If you think about the number of
"child stars" over the last 20 years, and then realize you can count the
number of trainwrecks without even using your toes, I think it's pretty
clear that the good ones outnumber the bad. It's just that the media loves
to spotlight the bad ones.

**I will concede that

> You may be right.

> But then again, there are so many trainwrecks, shouldn't that count as 
> a very obvious warning sign?

I don't think so. There are a lot of serious injuries in football and
gymnastics, but if a kid has talent and aspirations, most parents are
willing to let them risk it for the sake of doing something they love.

**apples and oranges must be your favorite fruit salad.  :)

**but seriously, I think that you are making a flawed analogy.  You could
say the same thing about any activity I suppose.  What is means is you as
the parent should heed the warning signs and watch them.  Cyrus made the
point that he was being kept from her by her handlers, and that was before
the 18th birthday party.  He mentioned how he was pulled in to smooth things
when she was still a minor. Well, hello?  Why didn't he act then when he
actually had the ability to do so legally?

I think most parents simply don't think their kid is going to be the one
that they read about in the papers. Heck, on a micro level, Patience let her
15-year-old hang out with pot-smoking dropouts because she "knew her
daughter wasn't like that" -- until she started skipping school and Patience
caught her smoking. As an outsider to that relationship, it was obvious to
me that she was making a *huge* mistake letting her daughter hang out with
that crowd, and it was
*incredibly* naive to think that she wouldn't be influenced by them.
But Patience was wearing a parents' blinders; she saw her daughter as that
little girl she raised to do the right thing. I think *lots* of parents are
guilty of that naivete.

**I understand that, and have dealt with worse.   But in Miley's case, her
activities were sanctioned by him to a degree when he took no measures to
control them when he had the chance.  He say the dangers growing and did not
act.  Why?  Was it to allow her to have freedom at age 15-17?  Or was it
fear that the gravy train would end?  Crying about it now still makes either
scenario likely.




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