Advice please! Should I let 15 yrs son quit piano lessons?

来源: cielo 于 2007-03-21 13:15:12 [] [博客] [旧帖] [给我悄悄话] 阅读数 : (1515 bytes)

My 15 years old son liked piano when he was five but at that time we didn't have a piano so he never took private piano lessons. Later when we could afford it, he didn't want to learn piano any more. Two years ago he took a keyboard class in his middle school. He was pretty good at it. So when we arranged the piano lessons for our second son, we asked the piano teacher to talk to him. She is our friend so my son reluctantly said yes because he is always nice with others present. So he and his 5 year old brother started their piano lessons half a year ago. At the beginning it was fine. But now he complains every time he practices. He only does it for 15 minutes and will try to find all excuses not to do it while the 5 year old practices even longer than he is. He asks to quit it and when I get impatient for asking him many times to practice, I want him to quit too. However, I feel we didn't give him the chance when he was young and now we should keep him learning a new skill(He can swim, does Karate, and good at skiing but quit art class after several months). Maybe he's too young to understand it. I wanted to play piano when I was young but it was impossible at all. So I'd like to provide him with the best if I can. However, I get mad whenever he complains his lesson of an hour a week is too long and he has no time practing(but has time watching TV or looking at this pokemon cards). My parents think I'm wasting money on it. So what are your suggestions please? Thanks

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• let him quit. -wendi- ♀ 给 wendi 发送悄悄话 (70 bytes) () 03/21/2007 postreply 13:18:55

• Better things?Play games online or wasting time on TV? -Cielo- ♀ 给 Cielo 发送悄悄话 Cielo 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 03/21/2007 postreply 13:33:01

• A 15 yrs old is a freshman in high school. -wendi- ♀ 给 wendi 发送悄悄话 (509 bytes) () 03/21/2007 postreply 14:09:47

• You're right on your insightful analysis.However, -cielo- ♀ 给 cielo 发送悄悄话 cielo 的博客首页 (614 bytes) () 03/21/2007 postreply 21:28:28

• 少抱怨， 多鼓励 -huangme- ♀ 给 huangme 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 03/21/2007 postreply 13:25:21

• Yes,he likes hearing compliments and he's very artistic actually -Cielo- ♀ 给 Cielo 发送悄悄话 Cielo 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 03/21/2007 postreply 13:34:20

• 15岁的孩子应该很有自己的主意了吧,他真不想弹硬逼不一定有用吧. -忙妈妈- ♀ 给 忙妈妈 发送悄悄话 忙妈妈 的博客首页 (378 bytes) () 03/21/2007 postreply 13:26:42

• I do feel the same way you mentioned and I don't want to feel re -Cielo- ♀ 给 Cielo 发送悄悄话 Cielo 的博客首页 (202 bytes) () 03/21/2007 postreply 13:37:13

• 其实他可能自己也不知道真正要啥,给他一段时间 -忙妈妈- ♀ 给 忙妈妈 发送悄悄话 忙妈妈 的博客首页 (242 bytes) () 03/21/2007 postreply 13:56:21

• my friend wanted to play violin when she was young, -hz82000- ♀ 给 hz82000 发送悄悄话 hz82000 的博客首页 (213 bytes) () 03/21/2007 postreply 14:07:01

• 他从学的时候就不想学，别PUSH他了。。。 -坚果- ♀ 给 坚果 发送悄悄话 坚果 的博客首页 (62 bytes) () 03/21/2007 postreply 14:08:49

• if he wants to quit, that means he really doesn't wanna learn it -noname00- ♀ 给 noname00 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 03/21/2007 postreply 19:01:19

• It wasn't really his intention to play piano anyway. 15 year-old -noname00- ♀ 给 noname00 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 03/21/2007 postreply 19:03:03

• is old enough to decide whether or not he wants to play -noname00- ♀ 给 noname00 发送悄悄话 (103 bytes) () 03/21/2007 postreply 19:04:03

• if u keep forcing him to play, u r wasting money. unless u r ric -noname00- ♀ 给 noname00 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 03/21/2007 postreply 19:04:47

• unless u r rich and have the extra money to afford it -noname00- ♀ 给 noname00 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 03/21/2007 postreply 19:05:20

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