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From: cindy@ada-uts.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: How do I get my 6 yr old to practice
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Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 13:51:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 20 13:51:00 1985
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Nf-From: ada-uts!cindy    Sep 20 13:51:00 1985


    I studied piano from 4th thru 8th grades when my parents told me
that they wouldn't pay for lessons if I wasn't going to practice.  I
decided to quit at that point because I really hated practicing.  At
the time it seemed like the correct decision, but now I'm sorry I
didn't continue.  I've thought about this recently and have decided
that it wasn't the playing that I disliked, as I'm an avid dulcimer
player now and really enjoy my music, but perhaps it was the fact that
I was bored with the material.  My style was probably not the best, but
I found that after the first day of practice for the week, I had memorized
all the new material, and was ready for more!  Spending an hour a day
for the next 6 days playing them over and over just got to be too much.

    I would suggest that you make sure that the practice is challenging,
and /or fun.  Try to find out why the child doesn't like to practice
and try to remedy the problem.  And from my own experience, don't make
her do it if she really doesn't want to, do try to encourage her not to
quit.  I wish now that I had kept it up.

NET: {harpo, allegro, bellcore, ihnp4}!inmet!ada-uts!cindy



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