Parents want to control your children but handcuffing them to the bedpost is frowned upon by the law?

Ever since the media caught on (2 months late BTW) that Miley Cyrus made a Youtube video making fun of fellow child actresses Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez, but sides have been on an "ah shucks" offensive, wanting Disney's tweener audience to know that they're one big happy family after all.

Here's Demi Lovato's latest damage control, from a cover story in Teen Magazine: