<p>I’m going to give you the sort of advice I give everyone (and I am sure people are sick of it by now). I think your D should really think about where she wants to be in 10 years. I suspect she has been so focused on graduating and getting into college that she hasn’t thought about what happens after that. Now that she is a senior, this is the time to start that thinking. And since she is so young, she can take some time to do that.</p>
<p>If she is serious about wanting to be an actress, she should research the actors and actresses who are doing the kind of work she wants to do. Find out how they got where they are now. She may find that some of them don’t even have college degrees.</p>
<p>Another option is simply to start her acting career now, since she has so much talent and experience. If she decides to go this route, the first step would be to get an agent. There are many succesful actors who are even younger than your daughter.</p>
<p>Remind your daughter that college isn’t going anywhere. If she wants to do something else for a while, she can always apply to college later.</p>
<p>Her father needs to get over the fact that his daughter has grown up. Two hours away is not a huge distance, especially since your daughter sounds like someone who could well end up in another continent or something. If she is serious about being an actress, it’s pretty much a given that she will have to leave the Atlanta area eventually, because that is not an area particularly known for having a lot of work for actors. It hurts me to think that her father would ask her to sacrifice her career just because he would miss her.</p>
<p>KEVP</p>