I was channel-surfing today just as Elizabeth Hasselbeck on The View was introducing Billy Ray Cyrus. I stopped because my daughter watches Hannah Montana every day on the Disney Channel. It’s a cute and clean show and I think Billy Ray does a good job playing the dad of his real-life daughter, Miley (AKA Hannah).
Elizabeth asked him what it was like being a TV dad and real-life dad at the same time. Billy Ray said he always wanted to be his children’s “best friend” and it worked at home and on the show. Uh oh, I thought. I hope he doesn’t really mean that.
Then, The View guest co-host Dayna Devon asked Billy Ray how he planned to steer Miley away from the dangers that have beset Britney, Lindsay and Paris. His answer? He said Miley was a really sweet girl and all he plans to do is make sure she has a good time. I couldn’t believe that was his answer. Having a good time is exactly what has lead the afore mentioned starlets into all the trouble.
In Billy Ray’s defense, the questions may have caught him off guard and he simply wanted to come across as fun-loving and cool. But both of his answers were wrong.
First, Miley doesn’t need him to be her best friend, she needs him to be her father. She needs him to teach her values, morals, limits, and responsibility, both by example and by word. And “having a good time” is not the answer to keeping Miley on the straight and narrow (which is the phrase Devon used when asking him the question.) The problem with this is it only leads to more and more “fun”, pushing the limits, trying harder and harder to have a good time. It’s exactly the lifestyle we keep seeing with those troubled celebrity vixens.
Miley can (and should) have loads of fun, but Billy Ray must clearly explain to her that there are consequences to her actions and that certain lifestyles will lead her where she doesn‘t want to go. Britney and Lindsay were both cute, innocent, Disney girls too. Billy Ray better adjust his parenting style, if what he said today is true, or one day that cute little daughter of his is going to stomp all over his achy breaky heart.
Elizabeth asked him what it was like being a TV dad and real-life dad at the same time. Billy Ray said he always wanted to be his children’s “best friend” and it worked at home and on the show. Uh oh, I thought. I hope he doesn’t really mean that.
Then, The View guest co-host Dayna Devon asked Billy Ray how he planned to steer Miley away from the dangers that have beset Britney, Lindsay and Paris. His answer? He said Miley was a really sweet girl and all he plans to do is make sure she has a good time. I couldn’t believe that was his answer. Having a good time is exactly what has lead the afore mentioned starlets into all the trouble.
In Billy Ray’s defense, the questions may have caught him off guard and he simply wanted to come across as fun-loving and cool. But both of his answers were wrong.
First, Miley doesn’t need him to be her best friend, she needs him to be her father. She needs him to teach her values, morals, limits, and responsibility, both by example and by word. And “having a good time” is not the answer to keeping Miley on the straight and narrow (which is the phrase Devon used when asking him the question.) The problem with this is it only leads to more and more “fun”, pushing the limits, trying harder and harder to have a good time. It’s exactly the lifestyle we keep seeing with those troubled celebrity vixens.
Miley can (and should) have loads of fun, but Billy Ray must clearly explain to her that there are consequences to her actions and that certain lifestyles will lead her where she doesn‘t want to go. Britney and Lindsay were both cute, innocent, Disney girls too. Billy Ray better adjust his parenting style, if what he said today is true, or one day that cute little daughter of his is going to stomp all over his achy breaky heart.
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