Do, Re, Me For Parents?

By: Tatiana Bandurina

There has been a huge number of research and articles written about the beneficial influences of music education on a human being.

Many parents would like for their child to become just a bit smarter and, moreover, happier and luckier not only among his peers but also more so than his parents.

Nevertheless, not everyone knows that music lessons increase children's intellect by the average of 40%!

Everybody likes music. But even those moms and dads, who are well aware of the music education benefits, try to avoid the subject of music lessons. On the contrary, they are making every effort to discover other talents their child might have and attempt to load him up with other extracurricular activities. Why do they do it?

Simply because most of them either did not take music lessons in childhood, or they have unpleasant memories of being pushed to do so in order to please their own parents.

In the new age of technology both parents and teachers are concerned by the fact that a vast number of children commence and very soon end music lessons. Once committed to the music education of a child, parents invest a lot of money, time, heart and soul into it and then, when failed to see the results, quit. The common thinking is that all that time and money could have been spent elsewhere.

And the most interesting fact is that adults do not even try to figure out what caused the child to lose interest in the first place. The answer to a question

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