Really Terrific Tunes For Kids

One of the hardest parts of teaching children the guitar is helping them to visualize the placement of the hands. Holding down the guitar strings is quite unnatural to begin, and requires a bit of muscle memory to really capture the concept. An easy way to help the child visualize the correct placement of the [...]

What is it with kids and glasses.  I know that growing up, I hated wearing my glasses.  For years it seemed, I just stopped wearing them because I didn’t like them.  Eventually, I think my parents just got tired of reminding me to put on my eyeglasses and gave up.  That was fine with me.  [...]

There are so many career opportunities for kids these days, it’s amazing.  That is, if we can ever get through the current economic slump that is.  It just seems, that with so much new technology floating around, and the need for practical applications of that technology, that their are kinds of cool jobs out there.  [...]

Being a young mother is not easy. But it is surely very unlike what it was twenty or even ten years ago. Now it is much more fun and convenient and it’s easy to see why more and more women want to combine motherhood and their dynamic lifestyles. With breastfeeding tops it is possible to [...]

Trinette Robinson sure has been having a lot of fun showing off her extremely smelly pair of sneakers. At the Annual National Odor-Eaters Rotten Sneaker contest she was announced the winner from a group of nine contestants. As the name of the contest suggests, all she had to do was prove that her sneakers were [...]

This can be a tricky question to answer, as there every kid is different. There are of course the old standbys, where you can pick just about any movie by Disney or Pixar, and your likely to end up with a movie that works well. But I know of a few parents, that aren’t too [...]

Believe it or not, the local drum corp was not always seen as the coolest activity for a kid to do where I grew up. As a result, we did seem to get quite a range of children involved in the activity. Some form very affluent homes who had a genuine love for the activity. And then there were others, whose parents seemed to view it as a way to unload their kids (and their problems) for long periods of time. My dad the director never turned any kid away, but at times seemed to be running a foster care business. He was a well respected teacher as a career, and other adults and teachers marveled (with some confusion) as to why he would want to spend even more time with kids after hours. I think, he just genuinely loved kids, and the activity of drum corp. That's what kids really need. A role model that treats them with respect, demands respect from them, and shows them how to be passionate about something in life.

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So, If remembering words over a long period of time could be considered education, then I guess music is an amazing tool. What about music from other cultures and different languages. Why not give a listed to a little greek radio ( ελληνικό ραδιόφωνο ) and find out for yourself. I suspect it will work pretty well, and you may even educate your self in some Greek language speaking skills. I know I learned a few french words from a certain disco song that Patti Labelle made famous a few years ago. You can get greek online radio ( ελληνικό online ραδιόφωνο ) right in your web browser these days. All you need is a computer and the internet.

Once they turn at least five years of age, and have the physical control to start learning an instrument, then I think they should start. It depends on the instrument to some degree as well. Our kids had a piano instructor, that wouldn't start teaching piano to children until they were at least seven years old. She thought that prior to that, their fingers simply weren't big enough to play all the keys. Speaking of pianos, you may be wondering what brand to get for your kids. Well, it doesn't have to be the best of the best, like James Bond's brand of watches. We had just an old piano that my father bought years ago. I think he traded in his De Ville Co-Axial replica on it when he was younger. Not a bad decision in hindsight, considering all the use we've gotten out of the piano. Friends of ours also bought just a regular Yamaha electric piano when their kids started playing. Personally I'm glad to have had all the music lessons I did as a kid. And I never had to sell my replica Omega for a pair of drumsticks to get started.