A child’s first piano recital is an important one because it establishes a performance history they will look back on - unless they’re too young to remember it! So why wait until your child is an adolescent to give them piano lessons when they will be much more concerned about their peers, and feel uncomfortable playing with students who have had years of experience. Look at your young child and imagine them as a fearful adolescent at their very first piano recital, wondering why their parents hadn’t given them piano lessons years ago? Now image that you didn’t wait to be there! And enroll your children in piano lessons when they’re young.

If you did wait until your child is an adolescent to give them piano lessons, explain to them that they will need to accept the fact that other students in piano lessons with them will have been taking lessons for a long time. Explain also that you and their piano teacher cannot insulate them from this fact. Their piano teacher will not be able to create an environment where they will always be with students of their own age and limited experience.

The fact that your child is a fourteen year old beginner cannot be changed. But over time as your older beginner in piano lessons becomes fifteen , and then sixteen, and then seventeen they'll see how much progress they can make, and won’t feel like a beginner any longer. Then as a parent you can use this experience to teach your older child other valuable life skills, such as investing for their future in a timely way. On their eighteenth birthday celebrate by taking them to visit a financial advisor to start a retirement account so they can plan to own their first home, or purchase their first new car.

For great home piano activities parents can use to help children ages 5 to 11 develop their musical talent, visit Piano Adventure Bears Music Education Resources You’ll find a treasure box filled with piano resources to create an exciting musical adventure for your child - right in your own home! Visit their website and subscribe to their f’ree internet newsletter so you can download f’ree piano sheet music and mp3s of original piano compositions.

These exciting stories, games, piano lessons, and inspirational gifts feature the Piano Adventure Bears, Mrs. Treble Beary and her new piano student, Albeart Littlebud. Young students follow along with Albeart to learn what piano lessons are all about in a fun way that kids readily understand appreciate. Click here to visit PianoAdventureBears.com For a wealth of information about piano lessons, visit tallypiano.com

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