5 Steps to Transform Practice for Music Lessons
Daily practice with our children as they are learning to play an instrument can be an intense experience.
For many families, it is the most challenging part of learning an instrument.
No one wants to fight with their child over practice every day.
As both a teacher and parent I have learned this important lesson over the years: It is your child’s job to practice, but as parents we have a unique impact on the practice environment and on our child’s developing sense of what it means to practice.
You can’t control your child’s mood, or their willingness to be cooperative on any given day.
But, you can observe what helps your child get started practicing more easily and what factors influence them having a calm and productive practice session.
You can take note of what made a particularly great practice work for your child, and help re-create that on a daily basis.
Over my last nineteen years of teaching I have had countless conversations with parents about how to improve practice with their children. I’ve helped many parents turn around practice sessions that were filled with arguments and conflict and made them wonder if learning an instrument was worth it.
Lately I have been thinking about how to more clearly help parents through this process. I’ve narrowed it down to a checklist of five questions that parents should ask themselves after each practice as they are working to improve the process with their child.
You can find my complete guide to this process available HERE 
