Weary Parent: Parenting Tweens & Teens

Disney’s Camp Rock

by Christine on June 21st, 2008

Disney’s Camp Rock premiered last night. Were you plastered in front of your television with your tweens like we were? My eight-year-old daughter liked it, but she think High School Musical is better. My thirteen-year-old son said Camp Rock is better. What did your kids think?

I enjoyed the movie. The acting was good (for a Disney flick). The music was cute. And I even enjoyed the plot. Plus, there are two main themes in Camp Rock that many girl’s will run in to as they weave their way through junior high and high school.

1. It’s always best to just be yourself. Lots of girls tell lies to make themselves seem more desirable, more popular or more something they aren’t. In the end they usually get caught. Often lies take on a life of their own and eventually you forget what you’ve told somebody. And getting caught is way worse and much more embarrassing then just being yourself in the first place. If your friends don’t like you for who you are then why are they your friends?

   As adults we know and understand this, but to a teenage girl, whose whole life revolves around being friends with the right people and going to the right parties, it’s more difficult to understand. In the movies, a girl gets caught in a lie, but she still ends up with the boy or still has her best friend. In real life it doesn’t always work that way. In real life things don’t get wrapped up with a big happy ending in an hour and a half.

2. Sometimes mean girls are mean because they don’t feel loved at home. She may be mean, but you’re the lucky one because you have a better home life where you are loved and cared for. You have a mom giving you hugs and kisses every night and coming to your music programs. She may have a mom who is absent.

   We see this all the time with bullies. They act out to feel superior because at home they feel so inferior. Unfortunately, unlike how things end in the movies, bullies often don’t have a change of heart. Instead, in real life, it’s best to just understand why they are bullies and stay away from them. Reasoning with a bully rarely works. Bullying them back seldom works. And talking to her parents almost never works. Teens just need to take the high road and be glad they come from a happier home.

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