Ask Yourself, Are You Ready to be a Parent of a Kid Actor?

Parents of future kid actors

Is to be a Kid Actor right for my child?

1. Think

Being the parent of child actor is a lot of work. You'll have to travel to auditions and either be accompanying the kid to acting classes or to drop and pick up, regularly to be in contact with kid coordinators and agents and put together headshots and resumes.

There are many fraudsters and cheats in Mumbai and other towns in India who know very well that the kid’s parents are totally ignorant about the business of kid actors and will try to squeeze large money with a false assurance to make your kid a model or a kid film star celebrity.

2. Learn Business

Therefore, you have to learn about the acting business while keeping your child up to date with school work and protecting him or her from any negative aspects of the showbiz. Not every parent has the time and resources to do that, especially if they work. If you decide to make sacrifices to support your child's acting career, make sure it's a choice you can live with so you won't put pressure on your child to succeed.

3. Make sure this is the right decision, not based your or on someone else's views!

Sometimes we mistake our own ambitions for our children's.  Sometimes you get carried away by a child’s few stage performances on school’s or community stage and you just want your kid to be an actor. Or, perhaps due to praise showered by neighbors or visitors on how cute your child is and that the kid should be an actor.
Be careful! None of these are good reasons to start a kid acting career.

Find out your child's interests and typical signs in your kid’s early life right from when the child was a baby. What are your kid’s dreams? Then let the child tell you whether he/she likes to act. If they don't really have a drive to act, the constant rejection that inherently comes with auditioning could be harmful to a child's self-esteem, so make sure they are the driving force behind this whole pursuit of acting before you spend time on training and money on auditions, portfolios, demo-reel, website and on registration with coordinators.