- Are you clear on the goals you have for your kids and piano?
- Do you have time to participate in their learning?
- Do the kids have time to practice?
- Do you know how to help them practice?
- Are you clear on the goals you have for your kids and piano? Are you, the teacher, and the child in agreement? Possible goals: recreational pianist, exam superstar, etc. This is an important first step.
- Do you have time to participate in their learning? A children's hockey team is coached. The kids are not left to their own devices with a bucket of pucks, and instructions to practice their drills while the adults go for coffee.
- Do the kids have time to practice? Monday piano, Tuesday tennis, Wednesday hockey, Thursday dance, weekends more hockey. If their schedule looks like this, recreational keyboard is possible, exam superstar not.
- Do you know how to help them practice? Details in a future blog.
David