Tonight I was chatting with a friend who lives in Ottawa whom I have not spoken to in a while. We were updating each other about our kids and stuff. All our kids all are learning piano and she mentioned that her kids are wanting to learn another instrument. Then I told her Matthew said that he wants to learn another instrument too, the violin.
When Matthew said that he wanted to pursue another instrument, I told him that he could when he learns to read music better and also implying that he should not give up piano. She pointed out that if our kids ask to learn something, we should let them do it. When it comes to practicing, they would enjoy it more as it is something that they wanted to do. What was I thinking…
Another thing that she mentioned is that kids are smart, they can do it all. Funny I keep telling the kids that they can do anything they want and somehow, I forgot about that. Perhaps Matthew had wanted to learn to play the violin along with his piano, I neglected to ask him. Thanks for the reminder Kiat. Will have to check with Matthew.
As adults, we sometimes forget what is possible, many years ago, when I first thought about home schooling, I thought that I couldn’t do it as I wouldn’t be able to teach them the other languages. Let the teachers teach them. Now that I am home schooling them, they are learning more than a couple of languages, they are learning 4. It is pretty amazing… If I can’t do it, someone else can and that is what I have done. They have tutors for the other languages and it is coming along well.
Do not under-estimate the kids, as I have done with Matthew, they can do it all!