How much should I push my child to learn music?
Below is the kind of response from one of our teachers that indicates a student isn’t interested in continuing. Sometimes it is good to give children the option to choose when to stop lessons.
Well, maybe she’ll come to enjoy another instrument someday in the future.
I hope so…her family is very musical. But I think maybe that intimidates her. The fact that her dad keeps forcing her to have an interest probably makes it worse. She is at that early teen age when she wants to do nothing her parents want her to do. Just sit in her room and text friends.
She did progress though with me. She learned to read music. Early into her lessons…I realized her previous teacher had her copying hand movements on the piano instead of learning fundamentals so that hurt her for a while. She did not know so many basic things and I think that made her frustrated about learning because she could not do much on her own without those tools. But she did not realize that was not her fault…and lost confidence. So she did overcome that and hopefully one day she will come back to music with some confidence.
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