It won’t be very long, looking at the speed in which they grow up.

thanks for your advice. I am thinking to start her at 5, after reading your comments I will reconsider it or maybe I will ask the piano teacher to check her readiness.
yup, agree with you in the music appreciation

You must make sure your girl loves the lessons too. To make sure my girl loves her lessons, we sing a lot at home. The kids love it when we sing our own make up silly songs in our own tunes. And they see me practise the piano all the time so they want to become like mummy. Haha. As a result the girl loves her lessons. So far, I don’t have to nag at her to practise. She asks to practise.

You can learn with your daughter too. Like you, I didn’t know what was a good age to start. I remember writing a post about that somewhere too. If you want the link, I can look for it for you. Anyway, I started my girl at age 6 and I think that is a good age to start because I am told that their fingers need to be developed enough. I asked the teacher to have a look at her fingers to see if she was ready and only started her on lessons when the teacher said she was. However, this days, there are music appreciation classes for very young children (sometimes accompanied by parents) where they learn to clap along with the rhythm etc. I don’t really think those classes are necessary though unless you have extra cash and you want your child to socialise and have fun mixing around etc but this is just my personal opinion. IMO music appreciation can be done at home too if you always sing to and with your child and you clap and dance with them. Why pay extra?

I only play back stage where no one can see me and the singing can ‘cover’ me !

Good for you and your little missie!

Well, it wasn’t really a stage as we were on the same level. Hahaha.

My girl is already planning for next year. She said “Mummy, maybe next year we’ll play xxxxx song. Haha. But we’re not sure whether to continue my lessons cos its so expensive for both of us to learn at the same time.

Haha. Yes, she gave me the courage and not the other way around.

Haha. Well, I’ve got a juicer for Mother’s Day before and I made him some juice on Father’s Day the month after. lol. Anyway, it so happened that we needed a juicer at the time and they were having this Mother’s Day promotion… hahaha. but we don’t buy each other gifts on Mother’s or Father’s Day. We decided to let the kids grow up and understand the significance of the day and let them celebrate with us instead.

so proud of both of you! well done, it goes to show that it’s never too late to learn anything you want to.

Well, long time ago, I learned the organ or electone before so it helped that I can read some music. Hehe.

Oh, he never buy me any present for years and years already and this one is actually investment for his kids mah. Actually the audience was quite small, maybe less than 50 people and it was in a shoplot only, not in a fancy hall or stage, fortunately! Hahaha.