When's the best time for my child's private instrumental lessons?

Are you ready for the answer? According to Liza N. Burby of Parenting.com, October 2000, the best time for private instrumental lessons is between ages 7 to 9 years when children have better control over those fine motor skills, are able to sit, concentrate and practice for a longer periods of time and can process information more abstractly. In the meantime, Lewis P. Lipsitt, Ph.D., research professor of psychology at Brown University recommends that parents, "foster your youngster's music appreciation by exposing him to live and recorded music. If your child likes listening to music or singing, present the lessons as an extension of the fun he or she already has with music."

Zoltan Kodaly, the famous Hungarian composer, was quoted: To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.

Hmm, sounds a lot like the Kindermusik philosophy, doesn't it?

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