I coach all ages of actors from tiny children to adults. I get questions all the time from parents with kids and teens who want to be actors. This is a favorite question: “Is acting good for my child?” Yes! If you’re a good parent!
How is acting beneficial for your child? I can answer that question with the authority of a coach who works with lots of kids and teens, as well as someone who started as a child actor. The best parts of me are because of a combination of my loving mother and my beloved acting. Allow me to share some of these great life tools. Here is why acting is beneficial for your child.
1. It allows you to support your child’s dream. As a good parent, if your child finds something that truly makes him or her happy, you are blessed. I suspect you would do everything you could to make them happy. You would support them joining the Boy Scouts, tumbling, tennis, music, baseball, academics. Right? Acting is just another activity that they love doing.
2. It builds confidence. I started acting because my sister, Morgan Fairchild, was too shy to get up in front of her elementary school class and give a book report, so our mom sent us to a little acting school to help her to get past her shyness.
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