One Part Inspiration...

I went to cheer on my daughter the other night. Two teachers combined their students for a piano and voice recital. As I was sitting there listening to 31 students present their work, I thought of a few things. Thus the label. [ I know you could do this for the parents who cheer on their sports stars too but...] This is For All the parents who decide to give music a shot and find a music teacher - mostly on the word of other parents. All the parents who pay the money every week to have their kid take music. All the parents who show up to take the kids to the lessons every week. All the parents who purchase the books, bring the books,and go back to find the books when their kids have "forgotten" theirs. All the parents who encourage, [nag] their kids about practicing. All the parents who make time to come to the recitals and applaud their kids loudly even though they have heard the song a million gazillion times All the parents who sit there at the recital and don't think...

Sometimes, lyrics of a song are just the thing to express what is on your mind. One of my friends sings these lyrics to her girls when their whining gets on her nerves. " You can't always get what you want You can't always get what you want You can't always get what you want But if you try sometimes well you might find You get what you need." She has sung it so often, that they know the lyrics off by heart. When my children were young and were driving me crazy, I would sing " Children are a Blessing from the Lord " - sometimes at the top of my lungs. This generally occured when the little blessings were whining about something. It was a little bit of a reminder to myself to count them as blesssings and a little bit of a complaint about the way they were acting. Every major event of life has a song attached to it. Every good music therapist knows this and taps into it for the therapeutic aspect of it. One of the most surprising things is how songs help to...