I Love Hearing You Play

My middle child was just sounding his way through the Mozart clarinet concerto in his bedroom. My eldest has been making progress on learning chords on the guitar he got for Christmas. My youngest has every word of Encanto memorized.

“Gee, I wonder how you have such musical children,” I hear you say. And sure, having two musician parents surely figures into it. But more important, I think, is the philosophy I learned from Dr. Mitchell Robinson. (I learned it via his social media).

Don’t correct. Encourage. As Mitch says, the right thing to say, almost always, is “I love hearing you play.”

That encouragement goes a long way toward hearing more playing and singing, and it’s the more playing and singing that leads to more musical children.