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Mar232010

Passing on fear to your children

DateTuesday, March 23, 2010 at 11:05AM

I was speaking with a mother the other day about her kids taking music lessons. She was interested in her 3 year old singing and mentioned that her 6 year old son was not musical.

Wow!

It is impossible in my mind for someone to not be musical. Music is no different than speaking, reading and writing, something that anyone who is reading this blog is able to do. There are many kids who don’t play an instrument or sing but if they enjoy music either through dancing, drumming on a table ,or simply listening, they are musical.

In my mind there is no such thing as a non-musical 6 year old. As the father of a 5 year old boy, I know that I influence my kids through my actions more than my words. By involving myself in the music and dance I encourage my kids to do the same. If I consistently tell pwoplw how unmusical I am or my spouse is, my kids will pick up on the energy and pass it on.

Likewise, peer influence is incredibly high even at a young age and singing is something many boys do not consider cool (which is odd considering Bono, Sting, Bob Dylan, and Otis Redding are all pretty cool in most peoples eyes) It is our role to allow kids to experience the full spectrum of possibilities and that means not placing our own fear of music, art, or creativity into their minds at such an early age.

We are NOT born with a god given talent to sing, dance or play an instrument, all people have the ability.

So we can either pass our fear on to our children or we can “take a pass” on fear and encourage kids to experience a rich and full childhood.

Don’t believe me because you don’t think you can sing? Ask yourself where that feeling originated and then come visit me, I’ll give you a free lesson and prove you wrong!



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