The Momager's Playbook: Supporting Your Talented Child's Dreams

By Janice Robinson-Celeste

My daughter started modeling at 12. By the time she was grown she had a Vogue cover, the Victoria's Secret runway, and a ranking as the 13th top working model in the world.

I was her mother. I was also her manager - the one reading contracts I didn't understand yet, sitting outside auditions, arguing with the school, and trying to work out where the line was between supporting her dream and running her life.

Nobody hands you a job description for that. I learned it the expensive way.

The Momager's Playbook is what I know now, written for the parent standing where I stood. It isn't only about modeling. Whether your child is drawn to acting, music, modeling or sport, the pressures are the same: the money, the schooling, the adults with their own agendas, the siblings who feel invisible, and a child whose sense of worth can quietly attach itself to whether the phone rings.

InsideProtecting your child's emotional wellbeing when the work becomes their identityAdvocating for fair treatment in industries built to move fast and ask questions laterBuilding a life underneath the dream, so a rejection is a bad day and not a collapseHolding your family's values when everyone around you is calling them naiveKnowing the difference between supporting a child's ambition and carrying it for them

Reflection exercises throughout, for the parts you need to think about rather than be told.

This is the book I wish someone had handed me the day my daughter said what she wanted to be. Give your child the best chance to thrive - on stage and off it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F6YN4973
• ISBN13: 9798281824279
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"