Prairie Scraps

Summer piano (or any instrument) lessons are important.  I have a pretty strong opinion on this and spend the month of May urging my piano student parents that they should try to continue their child's lessons over the summer.  Here are my reasons: Summer is 1/4th of the year!  That's a lot of the year to miss. Lessons are a huge investment, why lose the momentum? Students digress, a lot!  Most students will take at least 3 months to return to where they left off in the spring - so now, you've really lost 6 months or 1/2 of the year! Because of number 3, you don't save money by taking the lessons off.  You will pay for 9 months and only get 6 months of progress. Often, children that take the summer off, lose their enthusiasm in the fall, and struggle to stay with it.  In my experience, these students don't come back, or they try and get frustrated with their backward movement, and end up quitting in the middle of the semester. In my studio, stud