5 Best Parents on Disney Channel Original Series (And 5 Who Weren’t So Great)

5 Best Parents on Disney Channel Original Series (And 5 Who Weren’t So Great)

Many parents on kids’ shows are pretty uninvolved. There are diamonds in the rough, though. Here are the best and worst of Disney Channel parents.

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Scads of scholarly books and articles have touched on the parental failings of children’s programming. They’re not entirely wrong. Many parents on kids’ shows are oblivious, silly, and uninvolved. There are some diamonds in the rough, though. Parents in Disney Channel history try their best, and they run the gamut when it comes to the quality and quantity of their time with the kids.

Here are five of the best parent groups on Disney shows and five who weren’t so great overall. Check them out on Disney+ to see what you think.

10 Best: Sam and Jo McGuire

Lizzie McGuire is one of the crowning jewels of Disney Channel history. Sam and Jo McGuire are awesome because, like the show itself, they are realistic. Every family is different, but to make a television family feel real, it is important to have parents who teach their children right from wrong and know how to discipline them.

Sam may be a little kooky at times, but he’s a wise and caring father, and he really tries to relate to both Matt and Lizzie. Jo works to bring her kids together, and she is on their team in the best and worst of times.

9 Not Great: Morgan and Christina Ross

The Ross kids have one of the longest screen time records on the Disney Channel. Jessie debuted in 2011, concluded in 2015, and led to a spin-off called Bunk’d. Debby Ryan played the title role of Jessie, nanny to four children who live a luxurious New York City life. While the late Cameron Boyce reprised his role as Luke just twice on Bunk’d, his three TV siblings were regulars on the spin-off for the first three seasons–they are living at a camp in Maine on this show.

One thing the two shows have in common is the absentee parents. Morgan and Christina Ross are wealthy and career-minded people who travel all the time, and they are rarely seen. Morgan Ross appears four times on the entire run of Jessie and is never seen on Bunk’d. Christina Ross is on seven episodes of Jessie and only one of Bunk’d. While many real adults employ nannies to help take care of their children, the fictional Ross parents should have been more present in their kids’ lives.

8 Best: Steve and Eileen Stevens

Even Stevens is one of the funniest shows in the Disney Channel canon, period. Some might find Steve and Eileen a little odd, but that’s the best part! Steve is a temperamental lawyer, and Eileen is a driven senator. They’re busy with their careers, but they are present in the lives of their three teenagers.

Louis may pull one over on them from time to time, but his parents are intelligent people. They’re not afraid to discipline their kids, and they are great listeners who show compassion to each child equally.

7 Not Great: Connie Munroe

“Connie Munroe” not ringing a bell? That’s because no one saw too much of her. Sonny with a Chance was on for two seasons, but Sonny’s mom only showed up on five episodes. She gives Sonny some good advice and support early on before fading into the background. She helps Tawni and her mother reunite at the end of season one and makes her final appearance in season two’s two-part episode “Falling for the Falls.”

It’s hard to make a judgment call on Connie’s parenting based on these five episodes, but Disney clearly shifted the focus away from family life on this sitcom. Instead, the show is focused on the lives of young actors on the set of their comedy sketch show. And of course, without Demi Lovato to play Sonny, there was no Connie on the Demi-less spin-off, So Random!.

6 Best: Robbie Ray Stewart

Fans of Hannah Montana sometimes had a hard time separating Miley Cyrus from her character, Miley Stewart. Just as Miley Cyrus and Stewart are not the same person, Miley’s real-life dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, is not synonymous with the TV dad he plays, Robbie Ray Stewart.

But just as Miley loves and respects her dad in real life, her character is grateful to have Robbie Ray on her side. His job on the show is not easy. He has to manage the career of a superstar by night and parent a regular teenager by day. Robbie Ray is funny, sensitive, and not afraid to discipline Miley or Jackson when they need to learn a lesson.

5 Not Great: Carey Martin and Kurt Martin

Carey Martin has some good mom moments on The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, but she steps back from the twins’ lives on The Suite Life on Deck. Zack, Cody, and London join new characters like Bailey Pickett and Woody Fink to attend high school at sea. Carey visits her sons on four different episodes, and Kurt Martin visits on three, but he was only on six episodes of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody to begin with.

The divorced parents make it clear on the original show that they are still a team when it comes to raising their boys, but they don’t remain as present when Zack and Cody are older.

4 Best: Cory and Topanga Matthews

Boy Meets World fans everywhere were thrilled when Disney announced a spin-off called Girl Meets World. While the spin-off was directed at a younger audience than Boy Meets World was back in the day, it still included several nods to original characters and storylines.

The best part of the newer show (which ended in 2017) was that Cory and Topanga were great parents. They retained the characters they had so perfectly embodied in the 1990s, and they worked together to teach their kids, Riley and Auggie, about the world. The Matthews family also looked after Riley’s best friend, Maya.

3 Not Great: Wilfred Tipton

The Suite Life of Zack and Cody made Maddie Fitzpatrick and London Tipton pretty independent. Their families are not central parts of the life of the show, but we know that Maddie comes from a nurturing, working-class home. When London temporarily loses her fortune, Maddie’s family allows her to stay with them. Unlike Maddie, London has no family support system.

Her friends become her family, and the hotel manager, Mr. Moseby, is her father figure. Mr. Tipton occasionally visits behind a barricade of bodyguards, but his actual face is not seen until the end of The Suite Life on Deck. It’s not too surprising that his heiress daughter gets to live in a hotel suite and then spend several years on a cruise ship, but Wilfred Tipton’s absence is sometimes a source of sadness or stress for London. The busiest people in the world should still make time for their kids.

2 Best: Amy and Bob Duncan

The Duncans are the comedy kings of 2010s Disney Channel. Their show, Good Luck Charlie, recently turned ten. Bob and Amy Duncan have five children by the time the series ends, and they do their best to take care of everyone and love them all equally.

Amy finds herself in ridiculous situations, particularly when she tries to be a cool mom for her teenage daughter, Teddy. Bob has some one-liners that give classic 1980s sitcom characters a run for their money.

1 Not Great: Lloyd Diffy

Even if we love him, Lloyd Diffy does not provide the most solid example of parenting. His wife, Barb, has everything under control most of the time and is a comforting but levelheaded mom. Lloyd isn’t on her level, though. He spends quality time with Pim and Phil and certainly cares for them, but Lloyd has his ditzy spells rather often.

He sometimes feels intimidated by teenagers and gets talked out of punishing them when he’s not careful. Even so, Phil of the Future is fan-favorite that is totally worth a rewatch.

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