‘Hollywood Exposed’: Former Actress Tina Griffin’s Valuable Advice for Teens and Parents

Tina Griffin left Hollywood to shine a light on what today’s media is really teaching kids, and how parents can counter it.
‘Hollywood Exposed’: Former Actress Tina Griffin’s Valuable Advice for Teens and Parents
Hollywood glamorizes content that many of its stars don't allow in their own homes. AJ_Watt/Getty Images
Jeff Minick
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At age 20, Tina Griffin left the Wisconsin farm where she’d grown up milking cows and bailing hay and drove 2,000 miles to California to take her shot at acting. She was a working actor for 10 years, appearing in movies and TV shows.

Over time, Griffin became aware of the gap between the roles played by her fellow actors and their lifestyles off the set. Many of them were glamorizing or at least prompting negative behavior and values on the screen while sheltering their own children from such influences.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.