Despite serious reductions in funding for arts programs in public schools, there is a great need for studying music.? Band, orchestra, and choir all offer students a chance to work together in a social and intellectual group setting and excel at complex tasks.
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The trick for parents is to enroll their children in high quality programs and assist them in purchasing high quality instruments.? There are indeed many benefits to be realized from a musical education and a quick reference guide is listed below.
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Playing a Musical Instrument Can
- Help your child develop a commitment to excellence
- Help your child develop self-esteem
- Provide an opportunity for your child to experience self-expression, creativity, and heightened achievement
- Engage the imagination
- Contribute to a balanced, positive, challenging, and stimulating education
- Prepare your child for other stages of development and participation in society by fostering dedication and sensitivity
- Increase your child's brain development, math abilities, and higher thinking skills
- Help your child develop perseverance when things are looking bleak and hopeless
- Raise your child's awareness
- Expand your child's knowledge
- Help your child develop mind and body coordination
- Contribute to your child's spiritual growth
- Help your child develop teamwork skills
- Be a source of great fun!
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Tony Bancroft, Music Teacher and Author of "Growing Your Musician: A Practical Guide for Band and Orchestra Parents" assists parents in developing their musical children.? He is an alumni of Yale University and UCLA.? He can be reached at
www.growingyourmusician.com