Tips

Encouraging Kids to Engage in Music

Ever consider using music lessons as a way to spend quality time with your kids?

I’ve noticed parents who learn with their kids really have a great time. It’s a way to combine education and parental positive reinforcement. Both of you can take a lesson together (guitar works really well for this). For example, you can start by having young kids play a scaled down version of full chords while you challenge yourself with unmodified chords.

Even if you haven’t played a musical instrument before, it’s not too late to start.

Tips for practicing an instrument

At the very least sit down with your child once a week for 15 minutes and ask them to play what they learned and be sure to be positive.

The kids that do best unless they are prodigies are those that are routinely encouraged.

Use the time wisely to connect with them and help them see the benefits that music discipline has on many aspects of life and brain function.

There is no perfect instrument or perfect result with playing music, it’s about the learning process.