The Family That Plays Together Stays Together

Music can play a significant role in uniting individuals.  Therefore, when a family includes music-making in their joint activities, music can draw them together, producing experiences that are rewarding and motivating participants to further music making.  This self-perpetuating music-making soon becomes a habit and develops into a love.  The memories of these shared musical experiences and the positive feelings associated with them last a lifetime and serve to unite or bond people together.  

Music for Young Children's parent participation style of music lessons is particularly helpful in encouraging family music-making.  In contrast to traditional piano or voice lessons, the Music for Young Children parent brings his or her young music student to class every week and stays in class with the child, participating right along with the child in all the fun learning activities that a group music lesson affords (keyboard, singing, solfege, composition, movement, theory, history, rhythm band, and much more).  

Well, that's great for some families, you may say, but my child is not always so willing to work with me and for me.  it is true that some combinations of personalities require a little "fine tuning" to work together harmoniously, but what better medium for working on building positive communication and self-image and mutual respect than music?!  The harmonies you play together on the piano will reinforce the positive communication and attitudes you are trying to build with your child, thereby building bridges to other forms of communication.  

Music-making can be a thread in the fabric of your family's life that you weave from start to end, changing as a you grow, flexible enough to stretch but always pulling you together.  Music for Young Children programs begin as young as 2 years a of age.  The musical foundations and relationships you build in these classes (with your child, teacher and fellow classmates) can last a a lifetime, enriching your lives from start to end.   

- Mrs. Elizabeth Dettweiler