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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I feel like you've entered into a power struggle with your dd and you're focusing now on "lessons I can teach my dd about how bad it is to be a quitter" that really don't have anything to do with whether your daughter likes music or not. She tried band out -- she doesn't like it -- should we all commit to continuing things we hate? How should she have known she didn't like it if she didn't try it? It seems to me you're not going to teach her lessons about not quitting, but that she shouldn't be open to trying new and challenging activities in the first place because you will force her to continue if they turn out to be not her cup of tea. I also think with this particular power struggle that you are teaching her that she should never, ever try instrumental music again.

I would let her quit. She can take up an instrument again later if she wants to -- instrumental music in 4th and 5th grades is really a joke, and the kids hardly have anything to practice anyway. If she wants to try a new instrument in 6th grade, that's a much better set-up because the kids have band every day so the learning goes much more quickly and the class doesn't take away from instructional time. Even there, if she tries it and really hates it, then let her quit after a good solid try.[/quote]

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