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Old 06-06-2005, 07:01 AM
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This isn't really advice on a the schol or modeling or anything, and here's my disclaimer: by saying this I DO NOT mean to tell you how to raise your kid. Just sharing experience I have witnessed.

Be very very very careful and make damn sure your daughter wants to do this. I see too many parents that push their kids into stuff, be it modeling, acting, singing, sports whatever. these parents don't do it for the kids, they do it so that they can live vicariously through their children. The end result it usually pissed off and disappointed parents and a really fucked up psychotic kid, becuase they believe they'll never measure up to what their parents want them to be.

Case in point. I teach at a local middle school. We have several girls that do modeling, but one has started to make it big. Her parents have pushed and pushed her, lining up her auditions, buy clothes no twelve year old girl should wear, shuttling her to acting, singing dancing and ettiquete coahces, even to the point of making her business cards with her hair and eye color, clothing sizes, and measurements printed on them. (Yes, measurements! For a tweleve year old! I swear to god, that makes me want to vomit)...but I digress. This has been going on for a year. Their daughter has been in therapy for bulemia for the last six months, becuase some douchbag photographer told her she was too fat (she MAYBE weighs 105 pounds) and has been harassased, threatened and picked on at school because the other kids think she is stuck up. They have also ingrained in her little brain that money is the solution to all her problems, and so now she is absolutely obsessed with money and nice things. She's had her stuff stolen on numerous occasions.

I guess my point is that she's hurting, and she's missing the opportunity to be a kid. and I feel like her parents are to blame for it.

cliff's notes: Be careful what you wish for and listen to your kids.

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