Kid Guitars
Archive for January 10th, 2010
Last summer I decided to try to teach my son how to play guitar. Since I have been playing for over 30 years, I figured that I would be able to impart my knowledge fairly easily. It turns out that playing the guitar is much easier than teaching it, and after a few weeks of our lessons, it was evident that he wasn’t making any significant progress.
Instead of doling out hundreds of dollars on professional lessons, I decided to try our luck with guitar lesson videos. After just a few hours practicing with the video, he already had learned more than in the weeks that I was teaching him. Now that he has some of the basic knowledge under his belt, I have been able to give him a few pointers that he can actually take advantage of.
Helping Your Child Be Who They “Really” Are!
For the most part I am a happy man. While I don’t love my job every day and you could even say that there are those days when to say I “like” my job, is pushing it! However in these troubled times, one must be grateful to even have a job. We have a nice home and while we certainly don’t live “high off the hog” we do feel very blessed. What is most important to my wife and I is that are kids are happy and well adjusted. It is at times a never ending job to see that you are kids are happy and learning to love themselves but if I could use anything as a barometer of my own worth as a man it would be that my kids love themselves for who they “really” are.
My five year old son kept telling my wife and I that he wanted to play the drums. He not only told us this verbally but he also showed it by his actions, (i.e. beating on anything he can find around the house including chairs, the floor and even his mother’s beloved coffee table!) This past Christmas we knew we had to look for a kids drumset, there was no question about it! We looked at various types of childrens drumsets and found much more than we bargained for. We chose a childrens drumset that we thought he would like and he just LOVES it. Our house is filled with the beat beat beat of the drum! I must say however that even at the age of five, he seems to have good rhythm and I believe he has potential. If he’s happy than I’m happy and all is good in the world, (at least are corner of it!)