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Supporting PreTeen Music Students: A Conversation with Barbie Wong
On this week’s episode of the Time to Practice podcast, we’re speaking with frequent guest Barbie Wong on the topic of supporting teen & preteen students in music lessons. We talk about the support students moving into their teen years need from both a teacher and parent perspective. We’d love to hear what you’d add to our list and if you have any follow-up questions you’d like to see us address on a podcast episode together in the future!
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Supporting PreTeens in Music Lessons: A conversation with Barbie Wong – Time To Practice
Highlights from this episode on Preteen Music Students:
Christine Goodner and Barbie Wong discuss the ways that preteens and teens in music lessons still need support in their music lives from their parents and faimilies. They share that it is often the way they are supported that needs to adjust as they mature in the teen years.
Strategies like sharing the “why” behind music practice can become more important, both to get buy in from teens and to help them be able to apply the concepts to other parts of their practice and music making.
The need for social opportunities connected to music becomes increasingly important in the teen years. Christine and Barbie share both their personal experience with the need for social music making and what they’ve observed after talking to, and researching, hundreds if not thousands of musicians.
Barbie Wong shares her young artist program for students, allowing them to pick personal projects related to their music students to keep them engaged and build ownership.
If any message could be shared with parents, it’s this: your support and presence still matter. Your role may shift but is still so important in your child’s life!
To hear all of the tips and ideas shared in this episode you can listen through the link above.
Links in this episode:
Barbie Wong’s Website: Barbiewong.com
The Musical Nest Community: Barbiewong.com/community
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