Re: Do you make your child practice?
It's a struggle to get my daughter (4rth grade - second year player) to play her cello for 10 minutes a day. She has a great ear but is lagging at reading music. She gets a lesson at school every 6th school day (we'll see if that is part of next years budgeted cuts or not) and she gets once a week outside school lessons. She loves the idea of playing more than playing often, I think. She has a Yamaha Classical guitar that was rescued from the garbage and set up by a friend in her room too. I expect she'll morph onto that post tween and teen time. Her computer time is contingent upon faithful practicing.
I feel after a few years when she starts to read better, and knows more tunes, she'll either love it and continue or do something else.
I was briefly taught, not well or formally, violin when I was in 3rd grade. Epic fail. From 6-9th grade I played French Horn. I picked up the mandolin when I was 32 or so.
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. Logan Pearsall Smith, 1865 - 1946
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