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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP - I would stick with piano if you want your kid to have some skills, trombone if you want your kid to have the social experience of band.  Not both.  My son took a few years of piano and by the end wasn't practicing much.  We took a break for a year and started back with a different teacher.  He now practices all the time and is progressing rapidly.  I can tell you that as a middle schooler my son is good enough on the piano to have fun with it, and this is great.

The foreign language: unless this is religious training, or literacy training in a language you speak at home, I would drop it.  Class without reinforcement is useless.

I say all this as the parent of a middle schooler doing three sports and piano (one sport ratcheting down, one ratcheting up and as long as grades are good I have no valid reason for saying "no").  For us, this works, but my son has complete buy-in.  We both let out a huge sigh of relief when the intense years of religious training ended.

I would not cut tennis if he enjoys it, but personally I think one class and adding some practice in its place is plenty.  My son played travel soccer by that age, and therefore spent a fair amount of time practicing. It was really good for him and he slept well every night.[/quote]

I'm 21:03 with the 3rd grader and think this is a good analysis. Pick the instrument he prefers, musical training is excellent. Only one tennis lesson per week but amp up practice because that is when muscle memory and skill building kick in. If you can not offer immersion in the foreign language at home (ie one of you is fluent and speaks it with him), then it's a complete waste of time. I say this as a multi-cultural person who can only speak one of my two "native" languages. My kids will only speak one out of three, because it's the one DH and I speak. Too bad.

Ask your wife why she pushes so much. I suspect it is a social thing - her friends do it, and she probably meets them there and chats, etc.[/quote]

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