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There is no getting around the fact that teaching a child to learn to play an instrument is something that can potentially bring him or her a lifetime of joy and enrichment. However keeping a child interested in practicing can be a challenge. You might want to consider the guitar for your child. Guitars for children come in many different shapes, styles and varieties. One type of children’s guitar to consider is classical guitar. Classical guitar is a good choice for your child because it takes advantage of the allure of the rock star. Almost every child is familiar with pop music and therefore would take quickly to learning to play pop songs giving him bragging rights to his or her friends. With classical guitar your child will learn the fundamentals of sound music theory and will focus on learning how to read sheet music. While doing this your child will also learn the basics of classical music.
It will probably be difficult for your child to lose interest in playing because while the classical guitar is a good instrument for learning theory, history, ability, and classical music, it is also an instrument that offers an incredible range of pieces to play in many genres. He or she will be able to play pop, rock, easy listening, country, jazz, blues, or any other type of music as well. Because of this wide variety of music available to the student, he or she will be much more prone to continue practicing and continue playing. As the child grows and his musical tastes change, the classical guitar can accommodate these changes. The classical guitar is also very portable and comes in half and three quarter sizes. Classical guitars are usually less expensive than other types of guitars and often run between fifty to a hundred dollars for a first guitar. Finally a classical guitar is quieter than other types of guitars and can be played in a room without the music being intrusive to other people in the home.
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As a parent I can’t help but compare and contrast what is available today for kids. Sometimes it really seems worlds away from the toys and gadgets of the 1970’s and the 1980’s. For my parents, it’s almost incomprehensible. Thanks to the digital age, everything has changed! I am fascinated with all the X boxes, Ipad’s, Ipod’s just like everyone else. My concern however is that too many kids like my own spend too much time isolated from their peers and too much time indoors. Even if they are online talking to their peers or texting their peers to me it doesn’t take the place of real human interaction! Ok. I’ll get off my soapbox for now!
My dear son says that what he most wants more than anything else in the whole wide world for his eighth birthday is a kids electric guitar! I must say that I really wasn’t expecting this! As a child I would have never thought to ask for that! Thanks to the internet, ( obviously not available when I was his age) I can do a quick search for childrens electric guitars and see what’s available. One can find almost ANYTHING on the internet and most certainly a childrens guitar that is well suited for each and every child! Despite my resistance/fascination, I can go with the flow! Believe it or not I can’t wait to see what the future holds!
As I look toward what I have to face for the rest of the year in terms of financial responsibilities, I feel a little scared. My husband and I make a pretty good living as least as compared to a lot of other Americans who struggle to put one foot in front of the other. By no means do we live “high off the hog” but we really try to count our blessings. With four kids, two birthdays coming in the fall and Christmas in December, it will be a bit of a tight squeeze this year. My adorable little son who will turn eight in October has been “begging” my husband and I to get him a kids guitar so he can one just like the neighbor kid’s down the street, (who might as well be living at our house anyway!) Since his birthday is not until October we do have some time to look into this.
Tomorrow at work I will google cheap childrens guitars just for the heck of it and see what comes up. My husband is vey frugal, even more so than I and he has come up with a budget that we need to stick to so I will keep that in mind while I search. Of course we don’t want to get him something that will fall apart in 2 weeks but if we do our homework I think we can find a childrens guitar that will fit the bill for all concerned. Only time will tell.
When I was growing up or rather when my mother was growing up we would have never believed that a kid could get a childrens electric guitar
for his birthday that was affordable and have so many options from which to choose! I guess when it’s all said and done kids don’t fundamentally change on the times in which they grow up do. My parents bought my son a kids electric guitar for his eighth birthday and you never saw a happier kid. My mother had no clue where to shop for a childrens guitar so I helped her out by looking online. My how the times change from generation to generation!
As we approach the 4th of July weekend, my son has guaranteed us that we will be blessed as he will serenade us at the family picnic. I’m sure mom will love this! Actually my parents and siblings are wonderful to my kids and will bend over backwards to see them happy! While life hasn’t always been easy, I really need to count my blessings! If it weren’t for the love of family I don’t know what I’d do! Happy Independence Day everyone!
My daughter wants to grow up and play in an all girl and one day. When I think of chick bands from my era I think of bands like the Go Go’s and how while I was growing up they always looked like they were having so much fun. Living the life of a band member can be quite a wild existence. Of course my daughter is only ten years old and may just be going through a passing “phase” in her life. I guess I need to calm down and just have fun with it!
The other day I went online for the fun of it and decided to start pricing guitars for children. Man there are some really cute kids guitars out there that are not all that expensive and seem to be of good quality. I am now more inclined to want to purchase a childrens guitar for my eager little musician. Who knows this purchase may inspire me to want to start playing the oboe again, (yeah right!)
My niece and nephew mean the world to me. My brother is a single father and I have been a bit of a surrogate mother to his two children. I couldn’t be happier as I think his kids are adorable. I see the kids quite often as they come to my house and I come to theirs. Birthdays and Christmas never go unacknowledged. If anything I have a tendency to spoil the kids and my brother sometimes has to set limits with me. My adorable little nephew will turn six in two weeks and I very much want to get him what I know he really wants, (a kids electric guitar!) My brother is very unsure about this but I told him that childrens guitars are not as expensive as he thinks and if we go in on it together it will bring the cost down.
A search online has helped convince my brother that I was right, kids guitars are not as costly as he thought. I think we may have even found the childrens guitar that we want which is good because his birthday is only two weeks away! Money and materialism cannot replace the fact the kids don’t have a mother but there is plenty of love to go around in our family!
As a father who has been around for a while I can offer some input and some insight. I have five children, a 25 year old son, and a 21 year old daughter to my first marriage. In my second marriage, I have a 15 year old daughter, a ten year old daughter and a six year old son. It seems like I have been a parent for forever having witnessed all the stages of childhood and adolescence over and over and often in succession. Kids go through phases, try on new identities and as a parent and at times a “single” parent, I have done the very best I can to be there for my kids in the way they need me most!
Birthdays seem to be a constant event in our home that we are always preparing for and just seem to “sneak up” on us! It seems that all my kids are really into music! My oldest son from my first marriage has played drums for years and still plays in a well known local band in our area. It all started when my first wife and I bought him a kids drumset at the age of six. He’s been playing ever since! Now his kid brother, my six year old wants a kids electric guitar in the worst way as he too wants to play guitar in a rock band some day! I said to my current wife, “I’m not sure I want to look for crazy guitars when it seems like only yesterday we taught him how to tie his shoes!” I guess since our six year old is the youngest, I want to savor his childhood as long as I can and thinking of him playing in a band is something I’m just not ready for! But as my wife maintains purchasing him a childrens guitar doesn’t make him that much closer to moving out and being on his own. I must admit that I rather agree!
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!
I was not aware that one could buy a childrens guitar but my buddy Sam said that he just bought one for his youngest son and it was really not that expensive at all. This is very good to know! I too have a young son who I really believe would enjoy learning to play guitar. On a whim I began looking at childrens guitars online and I am thrilled at how many cool guitars are available for a kid his age. I might even get one for myself!
My son seems to really like music but he is a little shy so I think this might be a hobby to bring him “out” a little. As a father it can be hard sometimes to find the line between encouraging and not pushing. We will try out the guitar and if he doesn’t like it we will move on to something else and who knows, maybe I’ll start playing the guitar!
My Aunt Sally has been like a grandmother to my children for many years. My own mother for various reasons has not been able to be there for me or my children in any kind of parental way so I have always considered Aunt Sally my mother. She was always there for me growing up and now that I have children she loves nothing more than to “spoil” them to death! She knows that my young daughter has a birthday coming up and as one would expect, Aunt Sally is BIG on birthdays!
I told Aunt Sally that I know what my daughter wants the most this year and she literally about fell off her chair! A kids electric guitar tops her list and Aunt Sally would like to purchase this but doesn’t even know where to begin. I will do the leg work and Sally will buy the guitar. I have begun my search for childrens guitars with my daughter’s wishes in mind. I think this is fun and I know my daughter will be SO happy to get a childrens guitar from her beloved Aunt Sally. I am so looking forward to my daughter’s special day! Life hasn’t always been easy but at least there’s always been plenty of love to go around!