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Life As a Millennial Stage Mom
A journey into the cutthroat and adorable world of professional child actors.
Or it might have been the summer before, when her cousin taught her the words to “Dear Theodosia” from Hamilton and they spent weeks singing the song everywhere we went: outdoors and indoors, walking down the street, in the back seat of cars, on a crowded train with headphones on. Dorothy Savage, whose daughter, Honor, first signed with an agent when she was 7, pointed out that free time nowadays usually means sitting in front of screens, with all the attendant negative effects on mental health. No matter what your child is interested in — soccer, robots, swim team, theater, chess — parents are challenged, when spending this kind of time, effort, and money, to enable their children’s dreams while blunting the force of their disappointments.
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