Should parents force children to learn music

mommy should have spent the money on your retirement fund. invested in SP 500 shares at age 50 you could buy a steinway and a women teacher that would suck your cock during breaks with champaign. you would love the piano.

Some parents think their children should know how to play a musical instrument because it makes them a more rounded person. Some parents have always wanted to be a musician, and they try to live vicariously through their children. Some parents genuinely love playing music, and want their kids to know that feeling of joy.

I think some people are musicians by nature. There are loads of kids in the world who would have been thrilled to get piano lessons as you did, and they would have had the enthusiasm to do the practice necessary to get good at it. But for whatever reason, you weren't like them, and your parents couldn't see that.

I had lessons in violin and coronet when I was a kid. I was never any good, I didn't have the self-discipline to practice, and my parents never pushed me.

My wife was made to take guitar lessons for years as a kid, but her parents decided that she should learn classical guitar, rather than styles more interesting to a kid. Her memory of that is of just learning to play endless scales and never getting around to anything interesting.

My daughter has absolutely no interest in learning an instrument. We have a keyboard and guitar at home, but she's never even messed around with them. From a very young age, it's been clear that her thing is visual art, and so we do all we can to make it possible to develop that interest. I'd really like to have a rock-chick daughter, but I guess that's unlikely to happen, and I can live with that.

That's so old school forcing a child to play piano or do anything they really don't want to. There are exceptions of course. You WILL clean your room. You WILL go to school. Etc.

If anything, the experience made you dislike piano more than if you'd never had the lessons. So it's not only a waste of time, but it damaged you in personal ways and ruined any potential interest you may have had for music later in life.

I've seen this happen so many times that it thinking about it now really bugs me. Children being forced to play boring things they're not interested in just doesn't work, in my opinion.
Maybe if parents are determined to produce a child prodigy, that's what has to be done (wouldn't know) but shit...who wants to inflict that on a kid? Who's probably going to rebel the first chance they get.

If a kid is genuinely interested in music, I think they have to be taught in a way that's engaging by playing music they enjoy themselves, for it to work. Otherwise it's just a nightmare.

Maybe people who don't play music are under the impression that you have to go through years of boredom to get a payoff in the end. Imo, that's completely untrue. It's the opposite.

That's been my experience anyway; I stuck with it because I loved to play and I was learning music that *I* liked. Had I been forced to play boring shite I had no passion for (like so many kids are) I would have quit like they did.

Dont feel guilty. The acerahe 5 year old foesnt care about pianos. She was living through you man. Parents do that all the time

Parents should'nt force their childrens to do anything.

I think learning to play a musical instrument is a good thing if it's what the child wants to do! I can play the flute, and although I haven't played in many years I'm glad I learned. I also studied ballet, and really loved that as well. It's all about nurturing the child's natural talents, and not forcing them to be something they are not. I also think it's good to learn a foriegn language as well.