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Again - LOL, no.

My daughter takes piano lessons.  1) It was at her request and 2) her teacher has her spend half of each lesson and her practice time working out of lesson books but spends the *other* half teaching her to play tunes that *she wants to play*.  Music that would be years down the road if she was sticking to her formal level.  And of course that would probably make her lose interest entirely.

She is happy to do the not so fun work part because she knows that she also gets to do the interesting fun part, too.

Balance.[/quote]

Lol indeed. Wait until your DD is adult to see what she really thinks of this. [/quote]

I can’t imagine what ominous future you are trying to warn me of… do tell![/quote]

You're too dramatic. My parents also thought I liked piano lessons. In the long run I didn't. I played for 15 years. I don't blame my parents for this though. Usually people who have kids learn that at some point what their kids wanted before they don't want any more. Like you don't want now what you wanted in your 20s. Which is why we usually push our kids to try this and that and see if something sticks. And like a PP said, you never know until they're adults -- some will be mad they didn't get pushed enough and some will be mad they did. If you haven't had an experience where your kid doesn't want to do something and you convince them and after the event they're so happy they did it -- you've got a long way to go. [/quote]

Umm… what?  You’re accusing me of being too dramatic while your point (being generous in characterizing it as such) is that my daughter tells me she likes piano, but she’s actually lying and secretly hates it?

Again, I actually am aware that my kids are real people and I talk to them about their lives, thoughts, feelings, etc.  I have kids in high school, middle school, and elementary school, so forgive me if I don’t put too much stock in the advice of a bunch of toddler moms.

(Or the advice of moms who have adult children who resent them!)[/quote]

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