9 Ways To Motivate kids to attend piano lessons and home practice
1)We strongly believe that children who refuse to go for piano lessons or home practice is due to difficulty or stress that they encounter during lessons, so what we do is to focus on solution to sort out the technical difficulties, make sure all problem like reading notes or technical difficulties are solved during the lessons, after that it will be much easier for the child to just repeat and revise what they do during the piano lessons.
2) Children nowadays are busier than adult, their schedule is packed with tuitions, enrichment classes and all kind of activities, hence creating a practice routine which suits the child’s daily time table is important. One of the effective way is to agree that piano practice should always be done before any fun time is allowed.
3)Organising piano concerts with children of the same age so that they get a chance to share their piano music with other children and build confidence by playing to each other regularly.
4) Reward a sticker for every new piece, so that you can keep track the progress of each new piece’s time frame by completing a goal.
5) Allow the child choose a specific favourite piece that sounds catchy and easy to sing or remember the tune – it always couraging if it’s their choice!
6) Make sure the piano is placed in the main living room, but not chucked in the corner or quiet room, children like applause from family members as an audience, they dont like to be left out!
7) Since the piano is placed in the living room, you should allow the child give you a mini ‘concert’ for 10 minutes before going to bed. Make sure you concentrate and pay attention to what he/she plays, this can be great time for you and your child create bonding.
8) Prepare a birthday song for a birthday surprise for Grandparents, parents or whoever’s birthday in the family.
9) Do a video recording of them playing their favourite piece to send to friends or relatives – these will be memorable times when they’re all grown up!
