tft addendum

I feel like I really wanted to add a little to my TFT yesterday.
Maybe I just don't want to feel like I'm stepping on toes of you pro-High School Musical people... haha!
I wasn't saying at all that I think High School Musical is inappropriate... as a kids/family movie itself. I think (though I haven't seen it) that it is a great, clean, kid appropriate movie and I love that it contains all the singing and dancing that kids get excited about. I think 'bringing musicals back' is good for our kids. And I think Hannah Montana has good music as well... kids need stuff that is fun and safe to listen to and I'm all for it. I wouldn't mind having a Hannah Montana cd, or the soundtracks to High School Musical around here. I love when my kids ask to turn on music and start singing and dancing.
It's the watching the Hannah Montana show or being so "into" High School Musical at 4 years old that gets me. I know Savannah would enjoy the singing and dancing. But to watch episodes of Hannah Montana and her friends dealing with high school, or watch the HSM movie all the time and then get carried away with collecting all the dolls and paraphernalia that goes along with it... I just don't see that that's what my four year old needs to be surrounding herself with. I don't need her to see that all the time, and then want to be and act like she's fourteen like the girls in the shows, when she's only four. I don't think I'm being overprotective or sheltering... I just don't see how those scenarios relate to my preschooler.
I hope there are plenty of good quality shows like this around when she's ready for them. I just don't think it applies to her world or her interests now. That's just my opinion for my own kid.

Like I said before, it kind of boils down to me feeling like if this is what kids are watching as preschoolers, what are they going to be watching when they're 10? Aren't they going to be bored of the same old "tweeny bopper" stuff? And looking for what next?...