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It’s nothing new for me to write about how my television viewing is often limited to what a 6-year-old girl would watch.

But my viewing might have reached an all-time high or all-time low during the past few days depending on how one might view it.

On Friday, we watched an “H20” movie.

“H20” is a weekly series set in Australia and is about three teenage girls who have accidentally become mermaids (when they are in water) and try to keep their identity secret from their family and most of their friends.

That seems to be consistent theme for TV shows popular with young girls—secrets.

The weekly Disney series “Hannah Montana” is about a teenage girl who by night is a pop star wearing a blonde wig and only her immediate family and a few very close friends know.

By day she is a normal school kid.

First off, I realize by writing about all this, Sports Editor Corbitt Hollingsworth will keep my “man license.”

Last week he revoked it when I said something unusually sissified even for me.

To which I replied: “I thought I lost my man license years ago.”

It’s kind of like when I found out George Carlin had died Monday….I thought he was already….never mind.

Anyway, as far as TV shows go, “Hannah Montana” is not bad.

In a lot of TV shows for kids, the parents are portrayed as complete clueless idiots.

But on Hannah Montana, the dad is halfway knowledgeable and keeps good track of his kids.

Which is kind of ironic.

The teenage star of the show is Miley Cyrus and her father is played by her real-life dad, Billy Ray Cyrus.

You might recall Mr. Cyrus’ judgment was called into severe question when 15-year-old Miley posed recently for a rather provocative photo (at least in my view).

I guess I got off track.

On Saturday night (yeah I know it came on Friday too), we watched “Camp Rock” starring the teenage heartthrob music group, the Jonas Brothers.

Thankfully, Lauren did get bored with this show, which had a love interest for one of the Jonas brothers.

I guess Lauren thankfully is a bit too young for that right now.

But when she got bored, she and I grabbed microphones and performed our songs for Marie.

My wife told me not to quit my day job, of course, which is often already a night job too but you get the point.

tommy.millsaps@advocateanddemocrat.com | 337-7101.

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