Parent education in the Suzuki method

1. What do we have to teach
parents?
PARENT EDUCATION

2. Parents have to understand the benefits!
• Memory
• Brain devellopment
• Confidence
• Concentration
• Social skills
• Good working habits
• Improved family interaction
• Appreciate beauty
• Enjoyment of music
• Express themselves

3. Parents have to understand what to do
•And why!
•OTHERWISE...
•THIS HAPPENS: THE 3 MOST COMMON
PROBLEMS THAT SUZUKITEACHERS DEAL
WITH...

4. Too little practice….
• Every other day - PARENTS ARE TOO BUSY!!
Do we
always
have to
practise?
No, you only have
to practise on the
days you eat ;-)

5. Listening?
• NOT ENOUGH LISTENING
Well, we
lost the
CD!
It takes you so long time to learn the
pieces and then you forget them
Are you not listening?
Our CD-player
is broke and
daddy always
forgets to
have it fixed!
Argghhh!

6. Follow instructions...
Oh, actually we
did not do it...
But we did
something else
instead :-)
How did it go with the
new exercise I taught
you in the last lesson?
Argghh
h!

7. Children are like flowers
• They need good invironment and nurturing!
• You can not make them grow faster by pulling...
• They blossom when they are ready 