Pushy Parents.
By hvedra
@hvedra (1619)
January 13, 2010 8:49am CST
I was watching something the other day called "Almost Famous" not the Cameron Crowe film but a gathering of clips of now famous people's early appearances on TV. (I'm not proud of it but it was the only thing left on the BBC i-player!)
Some were teenagers with bit parts or appearing on talent shows but some of them were tiny kids, under fives. This is where I found it disturbing because those kids were obviously being coached and coerced by their parents. I remember one looked very anxious and kept glancing sideways off camera as she was trying to sing and dance as if waiting to be scolded.
Some of those kids are now celebrities and I couldn't help noticing that the ones who started very young are now the ones in the tabloids with their lives in a mess. Coincidence?
What do you think, are pushy parents to blame for some of our messed-up celebrities?
2 responses
@SAMoralee (95)
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13 Jan 10
Parents should simply provide role models to their children by doing this the parents live their own lives being happy knowing that they are role modelling for their children also guides their own lives with a more positive effect, and then in the future the parents can look at the grown up children aspiring to be great individuals and bring total success to their lives in the way that the parents have done before them
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@kaylachan (84815)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
13 Jan 10
When parents force their children to live dreams they themselves couldn't, it is directly the parents' fault. Quite often child actors and actresses are not doing it of their own accord. Sure they seem happy at the thought of being on t.v. but often are too young to realize what a hard life it is. They can't be kids, and fame is all they know.
Parents need to take a step back I think.
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