Thursday, February 3, 2011

Understanding The Fate Of Several Child Stars These Days

By Wilma Jenkins


You don't even have to be out of diapers in order to have a career in the movies or television these days it seems like. So where are all these child stars coming from? It seems they are growing out of the walls. But they have to come from somewhere. And even with their own talent, they may be suffering.

Unfortunately, so many of these kids go from the spot light to the jail cell or even worse. It is a wonder they can't manage to make more out of all that talent, but their whole lives are kind of dedicated to this facade of importance and publicity and it makes their lives a mess.

These child actors and musicians and such just don't seem to be able to get it together. The casualty list is endless for child stars who when they get to be adults, find themselves unemployed.

Child actors don't get the chance that everyone else does, to just be a kid and play and learn. Family and friends are very important. They are usually the ones who observe a problem early on. Don't assume it's nothing. Always err on the side of caution.

They have no chance to learn how to behave in normal situations, like so many of us do. The parent's role in child development is to provide the scaffolding for their child and gradually remove it as the child attains skills and abilities.

These kids lose the ability to figure out their own directions in life and so many of them turn to other avenues for regaining their own distinction and opportunity.

This is where things turn bad. Their dreams conflict with real life. The ones that don't get the attention are probably the ones living the most normal lives.

It turns out that whatever gifts they were given in life just aren't enough to make them into model adults they need to be. When they were not immediately fed when hungry, they learned to tell themselves that dinner would be ready soon. This morphed into delay gratification.




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