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Hello, dear Friends in Music!
We are back from the summer break, and ready for singing and fun and rarin' to go with another fabulous semester of Kindermusik. As usual, you can enroll at our website, or just give us a call.
At the beginning of the school year, it would benefit us to reflect on some realities of child-rearing that often get forgotten in our extremely fast-paced lives. The miracle is that our children grow marvelously, without too much intervention from us. Their brains, their skills, their cognitive function, their physical coordination... develop naturally on a curve that is largely beyond our ability to manipulate. Development happens in its own time and so we trust... and it happens! They have their own unique gifts.
Mr. Michael and Miss Mary would like to encourage those new parents who have all the usual 21st-century anxieties about their children being "ready" for preschool, "ready" for Kindergarten, or "ready" for first grade... Let us relax a bit. Remember, the one thing our kids need above all else is the easiest (and the least expensive!) item we can offer them. Our kids need love to make them "ready." They require our time, and our joy. Actually, that is about all that's required. Everything else we give them -- the programs, the kiddie-gyms, the structured playgroups, their Kindermusik class -- stand or fall based on the emotional security of the child.
Of course, we read to our children. Instruct them. Play math games with them, if they are TRULY old enough to handle that level of abstraction. And sports are great! ....But our little ones mostly need to know their base with us secure; and then their natural drive and curiosity will take care of the rest. If you've never read this quote from Dr. Suzuki, the creator of the Suzuki method, now would be a great time. (Of course, Kindermusik is not the Suzuki Method, nor is affiliated with it; but Kindermusik educators share many of the same philosophical and pedagogical views with our Suzuki Method colleagues.)
In our classes we strive to give you the tools to make great parenting easier. Come check us out, and we'll show you what we're all about!
Blessings for the new school year,
Mr. Michael and Miss Mary
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