Thank you Fender for sponsoring this post. Learn guitar at home with Fender Play! My teenage daughters have been playing musical instruments since they were little. They are no strangers to the whole “you have to practice” script from their mother, but I am finding it harder and harder to get them to practice the…
Thank you Fender for sponsoring this post. Learn guitar at home with Fender Play! Music lessons are a requirement for our children. Perhaps that’s just what they get for being born to two professional musicians, but we actually don’t expect them to choose a career in music if they don’t want to. We require them…
Thank you Fender for sponsoring this post. Learn guitar at home with Fender Play. A couple years ago, my teenage daughter Bria decided that she wanted to learn the guitar. She saved up her money and purchased a shiny black Fender acoustic guitar and was SO excited to get started with learning to play it….
A couple of days ago, Sophia had her very last violin lesson. Yes, you read that right. I let her quit music lessons after four years of sticking it out. It wasn’t an easy decision for me at all and I feel like a great big failure of a music mom. The Maestro is the…
Are you shelling out the big bucks for music lessons only to have your child not practice? We sacrifice so much so that our children can have good quality music instruction, and it really frustrates me when they refuse to practice. But it turns out that there are several very legitimate reasons why a child…
In our household, music takes a high priority. Not only does it make our living for us, it is what makes life worthwhile (in our humble musician opinions). Because we have deemed music to be so important, our three children each play an instrument. The instrument is negotiable, but whether or not they play one…
So, here’s the scoop on electronics and practicing… I hate, HATE, hate (and yes, I am aware that hate is a strong word) the way my children are so easily drawn into screens. Their eyes glaze over, their ears stop working, and they turn into little zombies while watching a movie or playing on the…