Are you trying to decide if your child should learn piano and you just don’t know whether to move forward or not? Well, there are two ways families get to the point of deciding whether or not your child should learn piano. It’s either your decision or your child’s. Yep, that’s it!
Don’t focus so much on how the decision gets made, but on if it’s the right one. In this blog post (and episode 4 of the Learn Piano Together podcast), I’ll explain how to not only make a decision, but how to move forward with your child once that decision is made too.
Just Go For It
If you want your child to learn piano, then that’s enough reason in itself. Just like with anything in life like sports, art, drama, boy or girl scouts, or anything else they try, they won’t know if they like it until they try it. So, how do you decide?
Then, once you make the decision to begin lessons, just go for it! It will be an adjustment phase for sure, but once you all get the hang of this new schedule and season of life, you’ll be glad you made the decision to begin.
How Should You Decide
Some parents will see that your child has a musical talent. You just always hear them singing, tinkering around on another instrument, or asking questions. As the parent, you know your child better than anyone. You also know in your gut if it’s time to get your child in piano lessons, whether in person or online. Maybe you’ve always wanted your child to learn, and that’s also a great reason to make the decision to begin.
If your child has been coming to you wanting to learn, that’s an obvious sign. It’s like a blinking neon sign that you can’t turn off. No matter how many times you try to change the subject or think they’ll forget, they keep asking. Whatever the case, there isn’t a wrong reason for putting your child in piano lessons, unless they’re absolutely dreading it or telling you a big fat “no”.
Once the Decision is Made
So after you decide to put them in piano lessons, here’s the next steps you should take:
- Have a conversation with your child about how they’re going to get into piano lessons.
- Talk about how a new piano or keyboard will be coming into your home soon.
- After finding an online program or a teacher, figure out how your child will meet them or what needs to happen before they even push down one key on the piano.
- Then, talk about your expectations with your child (your child’s teacher will give them expectations as well) and how just like they apply themselves to learning other subjects, the same will go for the piano.
- Tell them about others in your family who know how to play (including you if that’s the case) and your experience with learning piano.
- Let them know that by learning piano, what other opportunities for learning other instruments it will lead into.
- See if your child has any questions and have a conversation with them.
Have you wanted your child to learn piano, but just haven’t started for whatever reason?
If you’ve been noticing your child is ready to start learning to play piano, then I would love for you to check out my online piano lessons.
