Watching iCarly with dad - OMG, am I aging or what?

[Mickey's Minion]

So... in short... does anyone else remember seeing this episode and thinking perhaps kids are taking too many differing lifestyles for granted these days?

Thank goodness kids today are taking different lifestyles in stride.

So, no I don't think it is ever a bad thing for kids to be tolerant of other lifestyles.

And yes, I have seen that ICarly episode and found absolutely nothing even remotely inappropriate with it.

 

[RadioNate]

THANK YOU! I have been asking my kids for months what happened to the parents! I like to at least know the backstory! Loved it when on My Two Dads they explained the premise in the opening each week so you could understand the concept.

Now, can anyone tell me why Zach and Cody are now living on a boat and what happened to mom?

They are doing a "semester at sea' type HS program on the SS Tipton. The mom has visited an episode or 2. She was able to afford the program with her 'employee discount.' Can you tell which episode my DS was watching this weekend.

As for the OP...yeah, I'm not finding anything inappropriate and I don't think my mom or my grandmother (who is nearing 91) see anything inappropriate with the shows DS watches in their presence.

 

[a paper star]

Shows like this normally have one sex dressing up as the other sex, it's happened on Disney before. But Disney (to me) seems to push morals down your throat ( there is nothing wrong with that). I don't see any problem with Nickelodeon shows they might get away with some stuff that Disney can't but it doesn't mean the shows aren't for children but if you feel uncomfortable watching that then maybe your children shouldn't watch Nickelodeon. I'm not trying to sound offensive so sorry if I come across as that.

 

[griffinstorme]

As far as icarly goes i think of it as an appropriate show for all audiences

 

[dicar123]

THANK YOU! I have been asking my kids for months what happened to the parents! I like to at least know the backstory! Loved it when on My Two Dads they explained the premise in the opening each week so you could understand the concept.

Now, can anyone tell me why Zach and Cody are now living on a boat and what happened to mom?

There really might have only been the one episode where Carly's family situation was explained. I don't think my son watched from the beginning. I would like to see them hear from dad from time to time.

Frankly, I'd rather see no parents than the Family Guy/Homer Simpson type examples.

I LOVED My Two Dads!

 

[allison443]

The premise of My Two Dads was bizarre imho and I would consider THAT inappropriate for kids under a certain age. A woman didn't know which of two men fathered her kid and never bothered to find out? Hello, Maury?
Full House had three "father figures" but they weren't all possible fathers.

 

[emer95]

As far as icarly goes i think of it as an appropriate show for all audiences

I respectfully disagree. My girls were watching it last summer (they were 7 and 9 at the time) and I was taken aback by how much kissing was going on. Not appropriate or necessary for kids that age. We changed the channel. They can watch iCarly when they're older. I prefer to keep them innocent as long as I possibly can.

 

[merryweather20]

I'm a little surprised that your parents were surprised at Spencer dressed as a woman. They never saw Milton Burle? Flip Wilson?

As for "family situations", Spencer is an adult and is Carli's guardian while their father is serving in the military. Mom died.

Don't you remember Party of Five?

Or Family Affair from the 50's. I don't get it
What about the Brady Bunch, heck even on the Beverley Hillbillies Elly May' mom was never around, ditto The Andy Griffith Show and most Disney cartoons come to think of it.

What adults watch and what seniors expect their grandchildren to watch are very different things.

They watched the same thing back in the day There was no childrens programming, mostly people sat down to watch as a family.

Milton Berle most certainly was a family show. The Little Rascal's dressed in dresses. What about Bosom Buddies in the eighties?

 

[bumbershoot]

my sophisitcated very liberal stepdad was watching with a sort of restrained disbelief on his face. He didn't say anything but it made an impact nonetheless.

I think you should talk to them, to see what exactly the "restrained disbelief" thing was all about. You might be surprised.

It's not so much a question of are they appropiate as much as a "wow, have things changed and I just stopped to realize it" commentary....

They are remaking history.

I don't know how old they are, but my mom was born in '44 and thought that some of her friends had lost their minds as they got older. They just forgot everything as they got older, and made themselves out to be perfect.

Born in '44, my mom married at 17 to get OUT of the house, she was addicted to cigarettes from the first smoke at age of 15 (remember, smoking was in EVERY show and movie back then), moved all the way across the country to get away from her abusive father, who basically married her off to my (soon to be abusive) father in a closed-door "deal". Times weren't all Leave it to Beaver...that was *television*. You used the phrase yourself; most kids in the world don't experience what TV kids experience...Leave it to Beaver was utter fiction.

They don't realize how fast the children grow


Now I know I've got to watch TV more. I just searched it online and discovered it was an "American Teen drama television series that aired on FOX for six seasons, from September 12, 1994 until May 3, 2000." Somehow I must have missed it altogether though I'm not sure how...

Oh gracious, to the first sentence there.

Party of 5 was about a family whose parents both die, and the older kids get custody of the youngers.

Now, can anyone tell me why Zach and Cody are now living on a boat and what happened to mom?

They are doing a "semester at sea' type HS program on the SS Tipton. The mom has visited an episode or 2.

Is it b/c the mom actress had a baby? She's taking some time off? Or was I watching old episodes and she wasn't recently pg?

I always thought Milton Berle was a family show, that children watched?

Absolutely!



Adult/kid shows..my mom and aunt liked Howdy Doody...they also listened to The Shadow after bedtime. Well, my aunt did, my mom cowered under her blankets trying to ignore it (aunt was 3 years older). Kids have been paying attention to "older" things since time immemorial...


As for age appropriate...in my high school we read Romeo and Juliet our Sophomore year...how old are sophs? how old were R&J? How crazy is THAT?


I really picked up my mom's highly realistic attitudes as she got older, along with her "what is wrong with their memories" thoughts as her friends dropped all the inconvenient truths to pretend like they were good influences. I don't like it when people rewrite their history as they get older...

 

[SereneOne]

In an episode of Zack and Cody, one of them dressed as a girl and entered a beauty pageant. I don't think either show was trying to make a statement about alternate lifestyles, it was suppose to be funny, which I thought the ICarly episode was. Spencer usually cracks me up, I really do not care for ICarly.

I think the Jackson, Reco and Oliver from Hannah Montana are a riot! Cute, cute show.

I do understand what you are saying OP. We were watching some old movies and it was nice to not hear foul language, nudity or violence. However, the female character acted like a simpering pouting four-year-old. *sigh* I think it was called The Glass Slipper, with Leslie Caron.

 

[Disney1fan2002]

I remember an episode of the Partridge Family where Mr. Kincade was dressed up in a dress and make up. (Danny had something to do with it, I'm sure)

I really don't think television has changed all that much since we were kids.

 

[Kickapoo Joie Juice]

Drag is funny. Always has been, always will be