| Helping your older piano student learn to love music | | | | Up. Follow these and your older child in piano lessons |
| and keep playing piano for a life-time is really easy. All | | | | will be a lot more likely play piano for a life-time. |
| you have to do is clearly define your parental role and | | | | 1. The Law of Who is the Student - |
| your piano student will know what to do. | | | | Your child is the piano student, not you. It is not your |
| Older children in piano lessons need a different kind of | | | | job to decide what music your child will play. That's the |
| support from their parents than younger children do. | | | | student's and the teacher's job. |
| Older children who want to be their own person | | | | 2. The Law of Piano Progress - |
| become very confused when parents start being the | | | | Progress is the student's department. They will make |
| student and the piano teacher has to be the parent. | | | | the progress they want to make. If you don't compare |
| For older children piano lessons involve three clearly | | | | them to every other piano student you've ever known, |
| defined roles - the student's role, the teacher's role, and | | | | they'll probably make more progress. |
| the parent's role. When the boundaries defined by | | | | 3. The Seven to One Law of Piano Support - |
| these roles become fuzzy, older children do not learn | | | | Give your child in piano lessons seven |
| how to take responsibility for their success and feel | | | | encouragements to every one criticism. If you use the |
| their effort is unimportant. This is because there is | | | | word "but" in your encouragement it doesn't count. |
| nothing that drives a kid crazier than to have two | | | | Follow these Universal Laws for Parents of Piano |
| adults telling them different things and being unable to | | | | Students and your child in piano lessons will be a lot |
| please them both. Here are three Universal Laws of | | | | more likely to learn to love music. |
| Piano Lessons for Parents of Children Ages 12 and | | | | |