Kid Guitars
Archive for April, 2010
My son wants a guitar for his birthday period. If I can only get him one gift that is fine but make sure that I get him an electric guitar. I must admit that I didn’t expect to hear this from my seven year old! In my mind, age seven is a time to run, play, skin your knees and ride your bicycle to the corner store for ice cream, (it least in my day this was so). Look call me a ‘fuddy duddy”, I mean I love guitar more than anyone but I don’t want my kids to grow up to soon!
Do they even make electric guitars for kids? Yeah, I guess they do. Yeah, I know they do! So it’s off to the “net” I go in search of beginner childrens guitars! Well If I don’t say so myself, there are more websites selling beginner electric guitars than you can shake a stick at! I must say I’m not really surprised I mean if you can’t find it on the internet you’re not going to find it anywhere period! Looks like my “eager beaver” will be “rockin out” with his childrens electric guitar in hand pretty darn soon!
Making It Work Despite Life’s Trials And Tribulations!
My dad lives with us and so my kids are very close to their grandfather. My mother has been dead for ten years now and for the most part my dad seems pretty happy living in our home. I really appreciate him being around now that my husband and I are separated. He is well aware that my eleven year old wants a kids electric guitar in the worst way! I’ve told dad that I’m not sure it’s in the budget. My older son told me recently that he found some discount kids guitars online and has bookmarked them for me to see.
My dad tells me not to worry that he will pay for it all. I think that is incredibly sweet but I also don’t want him to spoil the kids either. If we give him the kids guitar now it will have to be an early birthday gift. Over all I think he will be thrilled because he’s been wanting a crazy guitar for quite some time now! Life is far from perfect in our home but overall it is pretty good, we’re lucky!
As a single parent of five children I do the very best I can. I work full time and do receive child support from the kid’s father but still money is tight and it is hard to make ends meet. It seems like my kids constantly NEED something. The operative word here is need. I call it “want” but they call it “need”. Somehow it seems like I have a birthday to buy for every month even though it’s really only five times a year. My eight year old daughter has been “begging and begging” me to get her an electric guitar! Ever since she fell in love with Hannah Montana and has watched some of her classmates get kids electric guitars, she is convinced that she must have one too!
I must admit that my daughter is starting to make an impression on me as recently I was speaking to a friend who told me to look online for discount childrens guitars. She said that she bought her son a kids electric guitar for under $100.00. I must admit $100.00 is a lot less money than I thought I would spend on a childrens guitar! As a single parent of a large family, the word “discount” is always music to my ears!
My mother has spoiled my kids for many years and while I am delighted to see this, I wish that he had treated me and my three siblings half as well. She is well aware of all my children’s birthdays and because she knows that I am a single parent wants to dote on my kids even more. She knows that my very lovely young daughter is approaching her sixth birthday and more than anything in the world, wants to play the drums! I don’t want my mom to spend too much money and so I told her that a childrens drum set would be just fine
Mom wants to buy a kids drum set that is of good quality and will last. I have been doing a search online for beginner drum sets. My daughter will be thrilled beyond belief! I only wish that when I was my daughter’s age and began playing the drums my mother had been even remotely this enthusiastic. Don’t get me wrong my mother is a lovely lady who only gets more lovely with time!
My son says that we HAVE TO get him an electric guitar for his upcoming fifteenth birthday because he and his buddies are intent on playing in a band. Our son has been playing his friend’s guitar and now says he needs his own guitar. He has pointed us to some websites that host some really cool guitars! My husband seems to be more enthusiastic than myself at this point. I am glad that he loves the guitar so much but I don’t want him to neglect his studies either! My husband says “Just relax!” and I want to but someone in the family needs to be practical.
My husband has reminded me that when our older son wanted to play drums as a child, we got him a kids drum set and when he was a teenager we purchased some amateur drums. While I do remember that I had forgotten how we worried that playing the drums in a band would deter him from college. Our son still plays in a band but is also building a successful career in the medical field. My husband is probably right, buying our son an amateur guitar isn’t a bad idea, is it?
Guitars for children come in different shapes and styles and there are plenty available to suit your child’s needs. If you decide that you want your child to be a good guitar player and want to learn more about guitar lessons for children, here are some important tips: The first and foremost thing that you need to remember when you want to make guitar lessons interesting for children is to find some songs that they would like. This is a sure fire way to hold their attention and get them interested in the session The second important idea to remember when dealing with guitar lessons for children is not to teach them something that is too complicated. Even if they want to learn something that is difficult, you should gently the steer the discussion to some other topic.
You should make the theoretical part of guitar lessons for children as interesting as possible. You need to make sure that the lessons are fun for them. At no point in time should the children feel that they are being burdened with something that is not interesting to them. This is something that you need to look for carefully whenever you are on the lookout for children’s guitar lessons. Making learning fun not only holds their interest but can help ensure that your child continues to grow as a musician. Best of luck to you and your children as learning to play guitar can be quite fun and worthwhile!
Easter has just come and gone and now my son is having a big birthday. He is feeling quite spry at the ripe old age of nine. We will get him some iTunes and some other things like clothes that he needs for school and the upcoming summer. However what he most wants this year is a kids electric guitar. He knows that I have played acoustic and electric guitar and says that he wants to follow in my footsteps! I am for this but my wife is a bit skeptical. However, I think she will be more agreeable when she sees how affordable childrens electric guitars really are.
Recently my wife’s hours at her job have been cut back to part time and so she is very concerned about money. Someone needs to be frugal but I also think that we can still get our children gifts and live within our means. There are many types of electric guitars for children today that are fun and not too costly! I am looking forward to my son’s birthday especially since he kind of sees himself as a “chip off the old block!” Ah, the joys of parenthood!
I have enjoyed being a parent and I have three children. Our son is living on his own and discovering how hard it can be to pay the bill and make ends meet. Our daughter is in her last year of college and hoping to find a job and an apartment. We still have our youngest son at home who will go off to college next year making us “empty nesters”. Both of our sons seemed to gravitate toward guitar. Our oldest son has played bass guitar for years and still plays in a band. Our youngest son has been playing both electric and acoustic guitar for many years. As a child, we bought him a childrens electric guitar and he has been playing guitar ever since. Now he loves to play and have jam sessions with his friends.
My younger sister has a son who seems to be showing signs of wanting to play guitar too! She called me because she knows that both of my sons play. Because of me she is aware that electric guitars for children do exist. She is looking at a particular kids guitar and wants to know what I think. It sounds to me like she has done her homework and is just looking for my support. I am glad that both of my sons and my nephew share this love of guitar and maybe one day we will see them all perform together. We’ll see!
Our son informed us that he recently signed up for guitar lessons being given at school with his best friend. He really seems to want to do this and I guess my husband and I will start to look at beginner guitars that we can afford. This might be easier said than done. We have been shopping and looking online and took our son with us yesterday. He agrees that it would be good to start with a beginner guitar.
Finances are tight right now and we are hoping that our son can contribute to the cost of this amateur guitar. He is willing to do whatever it takes because he really wants to learn guitar with his friend. I think it’s a good chance to show our son that if you really want something in life it’s worth working for!
My son is looking forward to his fifth birthday. I really enjoy the opportunity I have as a father to live vicariously through him. I long for the days when I looked forward to my birthday. He views his birthday like Christmas and has a whole list for his mom and dad of birthday wishes much like his list for Santa Claus. At the very top of the list is the drums! It appeared at Christmas and we didn’t get it then so our son says that now we have a “second chance”. As a musician myself I know how wonderful it can be but as a career it can be quite impractical too. But my God he’s five,” let him have fun” my wife says and “who knows if he will become a musician. He’s too young!” She is always the voice of reason and couldn’t be more right!
So my wife and I have begun our search for childrens drum sets with gusto! It is fun and the more time we spend looking the more the idea grows on me. My son is the “apple of my eye” and I may even be able to teach him a trick or two. There are some good quality kids drum sets out there and after some more thought I think this will be a lot of fun but I can’t help it sometimes if I’m just a little overprotective!