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Child Actor
We have all heard the outrageous stories about child actors gone wrong - those TV and movie stars we knew and loved in our youth, when they themselves were still youths, who now seem to have hit the skids in a long, arching screech of the tires of personal conflict, crashing unceremoniously to a halt on the front page of one or many tabloids:
"Former Child Actor assaults nun!", with the graphic, intimate details of their slow spiral downward from riding high as a star child actor to their current state of drug addiction, misery, incarceration, or all of the above recounted on page 16.
Well, it doesn't have to be like that. If you are the parent of a child actor, you have the ability, and you are responsible for, making sure that this does not happen. There are numerous sources of information for the child actor about where to find auditions, casting calls, talent agencies, etc. Your job is to provide the kind of information that is harder to come by, like how to stay sane as a child actor in the world of entertainment. Patience, modesty, humility, inner strength, these are the things that many child actors never learn, and the fact that many never even have a chance to be a normal kid merely exacerbates this problem. For child actors, even-handed and forward-thinking parenting is the key to a healthy adult life, whether they continue acting or not.