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- Encourage your child to be curious about the world and its people
- Encourage your child to read books
- Encourage your child to ask questions
- Encourage your child to use her imagination
- Give your child a home environment in which he can feel free to dance and sing without direction or criticism
- Create a Dress-Up Box, even for big kids: this can be old Halloween costumes, hand-me down clothes, Frenchy finds, or cast offs from your own closet. Hats, blazers, scarves, and shoes are more valuable in creative play than princess dresses and Halloween masks.
- Take your child to see plays! From school plays at friend’s schools to professional touring companies to everything in between, your child will learn, dream, and obtain a wealth of knowledge that can be applied to her own stage experiences.
- Help your children learn their lines but don’t give them “line readings” (say it like this…). Often the child’s director has worked hard to help your child find the correct way to say a line by discussing the character’s feelings and attitudes, and these lines now belong to your child. Telling your child how to say a line is a hindrance to his own creativity.
- Your child is part of a team, and each member is a star.
- Go to your child’s shows and treat each performance as opening night and a Tony award winning production.
- Bring your child flowers. Even if it’s a daisy cut from your own garden.
- Never wish them GOOD LUCK! “Break a Leg” is proper etiquette. Luck has nothing to do with it.
- The days after a performance will be emotional for your child. Be understanding.
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