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Baby, Baby, Oooh! Justin Bieber Nail Polish.
Parents needn’t worry that fallen idol Miley Cyrus has moved away from her teenybopper roots, because heartthrob Justin Bieber is right there to pick up the slack. Yes, while Hannah Montana items were once ubiquitous at Wal*Mart, soon you’ll find in their place Justin Bieber nail polish – just in time for Christmas. Get it? Justin, just in time? Thud.
The 16-year-old boy wonder has “designed” six new shades of nail polish for Nicole by OPI that will be sold exclusively at Wal*Mart stores beginning in December, then shooting out to the broader retail market by February. Continue reading »
Miley Cyrus' New Tattoo
Miley Cyrus is sporting a cute new tattoo. She’s got a little black heart gracing her finger. This is the 17-year-old’s 3rd tattoo.
As the writers at The Stir put it, maybe someone should act like her mother and suggest this is too much? After all, tattoos are adult decisions. They’re permanent. They don’t always age well. You can’t know when you’re 17 what you’ll want inked on your body when your 64.
Clearly, Ms. Cyrus is in need of some adult guidance on this topic.
Maybe. Maybe not.
Is a tattoo really that serious?
Laura M. Holson at The New York Times recently wrote about how some of Miley Cyrus’s young fans are disenchanted by the young star and her new sexy persona. Some of the young girls who once worshipped Miley have moved on to new idols such as singer Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez from “Wizards of Waverly Place,” and Miranda Cosgrove, the star of iCarly.
In June, when Miley released her first “post-adolescent athem” “Can’t Be Tamed,” the sexy video that accompanied the album’s release sent a clear message that she didn’t want to be seen as Hannah Montana anymore.
“It was weird,” 11-year-old Perry Hamm, a once adoring Hannah Montana fan, said of Ms. Cyrus’s sexy outfit, which included black ribbon corset. “I feel like she acts 25. She looks so old. She is too old for herself.” Continue reading »
Lylah M. Alphonse, parenting blogger for the Boston Globe, has posted a great list of tips by child and teen development expert Dr. Robyn Silverman about how to help your child deal with being let down by a role model, centered around the recent “hypersexualization” of Miley Cyrus. (You can read my take on Miley’s transformation and the Perez Hilton photo scandal on my personal blog, if you like.)
Silverman’s ideas include exposing your child to real-life role models, as well as athletes and celebrities. Sure, Tiger Woods may be a great golfer, but what about lauding the coach of your son’s t-ball team as a successful sportsman? If your child is uncomfortable with or disappointed in the way a role model has changed, help them brainstorm alternative behaviors their hero could have engaged in. For example, ask, “If Miley is interested in changing her image from one of a child star to an adult, what would you suggest? Is this the only way to convey that she is not a child anymore?”
Silverman says for parents of daughters, it’s important to “define what an empowered, confident, bold, beautiful girl looks like.” Continue reading »
The kerfuffle over child stars as they begin to grow up always floors me – and I’m not just talking about Miley and her penchant for stripper poles.
We have adult actors and actresses in kids movies all the time – and we’re fine turning around the next day to watch them hack up a body in a horror film or play a prostitute on SVU. College Humor has taken that point and magnified it to hilarious effect, making Aladdin, Buzz and other beloved cartoon characters talk like the comics who voice them. Continue reading »
There are some of us who wouldn’t be caught dead buying our kid a Hannah Montana doll. Then there are the parents who go on TV and admit it, but complain that their kid’s doll is dropping the F bomb.
They did catch ol’ Miley at the Teen Choice Awards, right?
The flap about the doll is actually quite funny when you watch the news report. Continue reading »
Michelle Obama took her daughters to a Miley Cyrus concert at the Verizon Center last night, putting both election results and weekday bedtimes second to Sasha and Malia’s desire to “Party in the U.S.A.” with their peers. Continue reading »
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