How wonderful that you majored in classical piano. I loved classical piano as a child - was an odd-ball child in that respect. My violin child also loves classical and is preparing for his La Follia piece for May (quite a story here because he had 3 major surgeries on his right arm and it is a miracle that he is even playing violin...he lived in a cast from his wrist to his shoulder for 3 years and the second it came off, he asked me to set him up with violin :) ). Interesting how life lays itself out and we either take one path or another. I certainly wouldn't force the issue with Ploi and music. She may be interested later. I kind of forced it with my younger child (he plays piano, more of a jazz and art/free spirit)...'just try it, grab a taste of it and then if you don't like it, we'll try something new. He wanted to try cello 6 months ago and that fizzled after the first lesson ;) And then we've done djembe drumming. Everybody's different....as long as a person has a way to 'express themselves' in some artistic way, it doesn't matter what they choose. I've seen the wildest artistic expressions that I would have never thought of - I even consider math an artistic expression in a lot of ways. It's all good. Ploi's Steem page will be her artistic expression and who knows where that will lead her and what it will teach her about herself :)
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You're soooo right about expression being the priority and the medium being simply a detail. Your children are lucky to have such a balanced mom!! Thank you for steadying my wobble and for the lovely inputs.
You're doing great. And thank you. I wobble quite a bit, too - this is an 'interesting' age LOL