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ParticipantMy 2 cents as a piano hobbyist: rent a piano for the first year! Later, if your child is progressing and wants to continue, shop for a used piano. Be sure to pay a piano tuner to assess any used piano you are considering so you know the extent of the work required to bring it to good condition. Pianos are complicated instruments and although you the parent may think one sounds “fine”, there may be annoying mechanical issues that I, the pianist, can feel and that detract from the overall nuance of the performance.
…loving my Yamaha C2 Grand but lusting after a Bechstein…
ParticipantMy 2 cents as a piano hobbyist: rent a piano for the first year! Later, if your child is progressing and wants to continue, shop for a used piano. Be sure to pay a piano tuner to assess any used piano you are considering so you know the extent of the work required to bring it to good condition. Pianos are complicated instruments and although you the parent may think one sounds “fine”, there may be annoying mechanical issues that I, the pianist, can feel and that detract from the overall nuance of the performance.
…loving my Yamaha C2 Grand but lusting after a Bechstein…
ParticipantMy 2 cents as a piano hobbyist: rent a piano for the first year! Later, if your child is progressing and wants to continue, shop for a used piano. Be sure to pay a piano tuner to assess any used piano you are considering so you know the extent of the work required to bring it to good condition. Pianos are complicated instruments and although you the parent may think one sounds “fine”, there may be annoying mechanical issues that I, the pianist, can feel and that detract from the overall nuance of the performance.
…loving my Yamaha C2 Grand but lusting after a Bechstein…
ParticipantMy 2 cents as a piano hobbyist: rent a piano for the first year! Later, if your child is progressing and wants to continue, shop for a used piano. Be sure to pay a piano tuner to assess any used piano you are considering so you know the extent of the work required to bring it to good condition. Pianos are complicated instruments and although you the parent may think one sounds “fine”, there may be annoying mechanical issues that I, the pianist, can feel and that detract from the overall nuance of the performance.
…loving my Yamaha C2 Grand but lusting after a Bechstein…
ParticipantT-Guy – we do agree. I said get rid of the TV, not the computer. However, I did refer to the hypnotization of little ones playing the portable handheld devices. From what I can deduce they aren’t learning to conceptualize nor are they learning to interact, and lack of those skills overrides any factoids they learn. I think children would ultimately be so much more advanced if the parents would play the same games with them instead of letting the portable handheld device do the work. Children learn mechanical skills very quickly; it’s conceptualization and reasoning that take time.
As far as technology for the elderly, that’s a matter of “Who Moved My Cheese”, aka change or die. I find many older people to be resistant to everything involving change, not just technology. That resistance becomes cemented into most people over time. Scary to think of oneself becoming that way.
Of course my child is exceptional :)) As are yours:)) As are the other posters’ children :)) Seriously, I think the majority of posters to this site do have exceptional children because contrarian parents tend to engender superior intellect in their offspring.
ParticipantT-Guy – we do agree. I said get rid of the TV, not the computer. However, I did refer to the hypnotization of little ones playing the portable handheld devices. From what I can deduce they aren’t learning to conceptualize nor are they learning to interact, and lack of those skills overrides any factoids they learn. I think children would ultimately be so much more advanced if the parents would play the same games with them instead of letting the portable handheld device do the work. Children learn mechanical skills very quickly; it’s conceptualization and reasoning that take time.
As far as technology for the elderly, that’s a matter of “Who Moved My Cheese”, aka change or die. I find many older people to be resistant to everything involving change, not just technology. That resistance becomes cemented into most people over time. Scary to think of oneself becoming that way.
Of course my child is exceptional :)) As are yours:)) As are the other posters’ children :)) Seriously, I think the majority of posters to this site do have exceptional children because contrarian parents tend to engender superior intellect in their offspring.
ParticipantT-Guy – we do agree. I said get rid of the TV, not the computer. However, I did refer to the hypnotization of little ones playing the portable handheld devices. From what I can deduce they aren’t learning to conceptualize nor are they learning to interact, and lack of those skills overrides any factoids they learn. I think children would ultimately be so much more advanced if the parents would play the same games with them instead of letting the portable handheld device do the work. Children learn mechanical skills very quickly; it’s conceptualization and reasoning that take time.
As far as technology for the elderly, that’s a matter of “Who Moved My Cheese”, aka change or die. I find many older people to be resistant to everything involving change, not just technology. That resistance becomes cemented into most people over time. Scary to think of oneself becoming that way.
Of course my child is exceptional :)) As are yours:)) As are the other posters’ children :)) Seriously, I think the majority of posters to this site do have exceptional children because contrarian parents tend to engender superior intellect in their offspring.
ParticipantT-Guy – we do agree. I said get rid of the TV, not the computer. However, I did refer to the hypnotization of little ones playing the portable handheld devices. From what I can deduce they aren’t learning to conceptualize nor are they learning to interact, and lack of those skills overrides any factoids they learn. I think children would ultimately be so much more advanced if the parents would play the same games with them instead of letting the portable handheld device do the work. Children learn mechanical skills very quickly; it’s conceptualization and reasoning that take time.
As far as technology for the elderly, that’s a matter of “Who Moved My Cheese”, aka change or die. I find many older people to be resistant to everything involving change, not just technology. That resistance becomes cemented into most people over time. Scary to think of oneself becoming that way.
Of course my child is exceptional :)) As are yours:)) As are the other posters’ children :)) Seriously, I think the majority of posters to this site do have exceptional children because contrarian parents tend to engender superior intellect in their offspring.
ParticipantT-Guy – we do agree. I said get rid of the TV, not the computer. However, I did refer to the hypnotization of little ones playing the portable handheld devices. From what I can deduce they aren’t learning to conceptualize nor are they learning to interact, and lack of those skills overrides any factoids they learn. I think children would ultimately be so much more advanced if the parents would play the same games with them instead of letting the portable handheld device do the work. Children learn mechanical skills very quickly; it’s conceptualization and reasoning that take time.
As far as technology for the elderly, that’s a matter of “Who Moved My Cheese”, aka change or die. I find many older people to be resistant to everything involving change, not just technology. That resistance becomes cemented into most people over time. Scary to think of oneself becoming that way.
Of course my child is exceptional :)) As are yours:)) As are the other posters’ children :)) Seriously, I think the majority of posters to this site do have exceptional children because contrarian parents tend to engender superior intellect in their offspring.
ParticipantMy wise dad (6th grade teacher) sat on the kitchen floor with my daughter (age 3), lined up shiny copper pennies, and played addition and subtraction games with her. The next year, my mom (learning disabilities teacher) had her read text from Scientific American in the teachers’ lounge to the complete and utter amazement of the teachers during the initial prep week of the school year. My daughter had no TV for the first 10 years of her life. Gasp – no Sesame Street! And – no computers until she was in the upper elementary grades. How did she manage to learn without being hypnotized by a portable handheld device that beeped acknowledgement when she hit the correct key? Who knows? Current educational theory would have you believe technology is the answer.
Anyway,the end result for the child whom I was told I was depriving- Troy High School “Troy Tech” program, National Merit Commended Scholar, and fellowship recipient in the science field at Master’s level.
What I say to you – teach your daughter all you can as early as you can but make it a game.
What my parents modeled for me – do something revolutionary and turn off the TV and cancel your cable service. Talk to your child, play with her, play music and dance with her. Forget using the computer and TV to inculcate her with responses and facts. Lie with her in the back yard at night and show her the constellations, then talk about the universe.
ParticipantMy wise dad (6th grade teacher) sat on the kitchen floor with my daughter (age 3), lined up shiny copper pennies, and played addition and subtraction games with her. The next year, my mom (learning disabilities teacher) had her read text from Scientific American in the teachers’ lounge to the complete and utter amazement of the teachers during the initial prep week of the school year. My daughter had no TV for the first 10 years of her life. Gasp – no Sesame Street! And – no computers until she was in the upper elementary grades. How did she manage to learn without being hypnotized by a portable handheld device that beeped acknowledgement when she hit the correct key? Who knows? Current educational theory would have you believe technology is the answer.
Anyway,the end result for the child whom I was told I was depriving- Troy High School “Troy Tech” program, National Merit Commended Scholar, and fellowship recipient in the science field at Master’s level.
What I say to you – teach your daughter all you can as early as you can but make it a game.
What my parents modeled for me – do something revolutionary and turn off the TV and cancel your cable service. Talk to your child, play with her, play music and dance with her. Forget using the computer and TV to inculcate her with responses and facts. Lie with her in the back yard at night and show her the constellations, then talk about the universe.
ParticipantMy wise dad (6th grade teacher) sat on the kitchen floor with my daughter (age 3), lined up shiny copper pennies, and played addition and subtraction games with her. The next year, my mom (learning disabilities teacher) had her read text from Scientific American in the teachers’ lounge to the complete and utter amazement of the teachers during the initial prep week of the school year. My daughter had no TV for the first 10 years of her life. Gasp – no Sesame Street! And – no computers until she was in the upper elementary grades. How did she manage to learn without being hypnotized by a portable handheld device that beeped acknowledgement when she hit the correct key? Who knows? Current educational theory would have you believe technology is the answer.
Anyway,the end result for the child whom I was told I was depriving- Troy High School “Troy Tech” program, National Merit Commended Scholar, and fellowship recipient in the science field at Master’s level.
What I say to you – teach your daughter all you can as early as you can but make it a game.
What my parents modeled for me – do something revolutionary and turn off the TV and cancel your cable service. Talk to your child, play with her, play music and dance with her. Forget using the computer and TV to inculcate her with responses and facts. Lie with her in the back yard at night and show her the constellations, then talk about the universe.
ParticipantMy wise dad (6th grade teacher) sat on the kitchen floor with my daughter (age 3), lined up shiny copper pennies, and played addition and subtraction games with her. The next year, my mom (learning disabilities teacher) had her read text from Scientific American in the teachers’ lounge to the complete and utter amazement of the teachers during the initial prep week of the school year. My daughter had no TV for the first 10 years of her life. Gasp – no Sesame Street! And – no computers until she was in the upper elementary grades. How did she manage to learn without being hypnotized by a portable handheld device that beeped acknowledgement when she hit the correct key? Who knows? Current educational theory would have you believe technology is the answer.
Anyway,the end result for the child whom I was told I was depriving- Troy High School “Troy Tech” program, National Merit Commended Scholar, and fellowship recipient in the science field at Master’s level.
What I say to you – teach your daughter all you can as early as you can but make it a game.
What my parents modeled for me – do something revolutionary and turn off the TV and cancel your cable service. Talk to your child, play with her, play music and dance with her. Forget using the computer and TV to inculcate her with responses and facts. Lie with her in the back yard at night and show her the constellations, then talk about the universe.
ParticipantMy wise dad (6th grade teacher) sat on the kitchen floor with my daughter (age 3), lined up shiny copper pennies, and played addition and subtraction games with her. The next year, my mom (learning disabilities teacher) had her read text from Scientific American in the teachers’ lounge to the complete and utter amazement of the teachers during the initial prep week of the school year. My daughter had no TV for the first 10 years of her life. Gasp – no Sesame Street! And – no computers until she was in the upper elementary grades. How did she manage to learn without being hypnotized by a portable handheld device that beeped acknowledgement when she hit the correct key? Who knows? Current educational theory would have you believe technology is the answer.
Anyway,the end result for the child whom I was told I was depriving- Troy High School “Troy Tech” program, National Merit Commended Scholar, and fellowship recipient in the science field at Master’s level.
What I say to you – teach your daughter all you can as early as you can but make it a game.
What my parents modeled for me – do something revolutionary and turn off the TV and cancel your cable service. Talk to your child, play with her, play music and dance with her. Forget using the computer and TV to inculcate her with responses and facts. Lie with her in the back yard at night and show her the constellations, then talk about the universe.
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