what do you do with a recorder when your child is done with it?

[Anonymous]

Does your child never want to touch it again? If so I wouldn't feel guilty about throwing it out. Or you could bleach it and donate.

But the recorder can start to sound reasonable if the kid likes it and continues to practice. I felt the same way in the beginning but my DD has actually learned to control the thing and plays many many songs with it now.

[Anonymous]

Apparently allow it to get buried in my kids things. I have no idea where it is, and now I am terrified he is going to find it : )

[Anonymous]

My parents kept my old recorder (I am 40), and my kids (both under the ageof 5) use it all the time (I cleaned it with boiling water a few times before letting them use it.)h

[Anonymous]

Break it in halp and never see it again

[Anonymous]

Put on the grill and do a dance while it melts? I hated that thing! So happy DS moved on to another instrument.

[Anonymous]

I just threw out 5 recorders. My twins are just done with them and I am sure I only bought two. How we ended with 5, I don’t know but so happy to get rid of them.

[Anonymous]

One year ago I saw this thread. Was saying to myself, one more year! One more year!!!

[Anonymous]

Throw it away.

[Anonymous]

Yes. I couldn’t last year. Couldn’t stand the hot cross buns, ode to no joy, the spit dripping on my dining table and the need to smile at school concerts when you have so many kids going at it

[Anonymous]

BURN IT. There is a special place in hell for whoever invented that thing.

[Anonymous]

If your school requires it, as many do, simply clean it in a water/bleach solution and then give it back to the school. I get that many parent don't like it but why would you throw out something that can be safely reused. At our school the teacher was always happy to take them back and had them available for kids who could not afford them or forgot theirs.

[Anonymous]

No parent in their right mind would buy a used recorder for their child so it's plastic garbage so just throw it in the recycling bin and be done with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Throw it away. As a musician, they are the worst introduction to instrumental music a child could ever have. Don't pass it on.

I appreciate your perspective, but recorders are required in 3rd-6th grades at FCPS.

Is that the case once the kids are old enough to either do strings, or band?

[Anonymous]

Our school has a donation bin. A teacher once told me they boil them to sanitize and then hold for the kids who can't pay for them.

[Anonymous]

garbage