What should I do when my children get bored too quickly?

“Soon hot, soon cold” is commonly found in many people. It shows their lazy nature. Laziness has urged humans to constantly invent various means that work for them, like machines, computer, smartphone, and artificial intelligence. However, there is one thing machines cannot replace. It’s the heart that knows how to sob, to love, to move before beauty and to seek the meaning of life.

Before learning, parents and their children are often concerned about difficulties of learning techniques and skills. Yet, the much bigger difficulty doesn’t come from musical instruments. It derives from the nature of learners. To make change, we have to change ourselves first. That is the premise in educational activities. Artists’ sublimation may impress listeners in a moment, and then gives way to perseverance, endurance, progressive spirit. Practicing a piece of music or a technique easily discourages learners. Without persistence, learners cannot overcome this. If they quit halfway, all of the attempts spent become meaningless and they get back to the start line. Therefore, persistence, patience, and discipline are the virtues that learners should train in the learning process to preserve what they’ve learned, overcome difficulties and challenges, and transform from passive and negative people to active and positive ones so as to go deep into the field of music.

To stop getting bored quickly, you must have a deep understanding of yourself and the music you’re pursuing, look for changes and transformations in the learning process. Changes come in silence, and looking for changes is the search of meaning. The feeling of depression is unavoidable. It may come for lots of reasons, including aesthetic fatigue and tiredness. If it is due to regular practice of some techniques or monotonous pieces of music, learners should talk to their teacher to have suitable adjustments in terms of practice time and nature of lessons. The lessons should become less boring if they incorporate with entertainment factors. If it is pieces of music that cause tiredness, try changing to other styles or lessening technical training. If depression comes whenever you think of learning, don’t hesitate to discipline yourself in search for changes. Change methods, techniques, styles, etc. but never give up once you’ve determined the value of your learning. Quitting halfway causes interruption and waste in the learning process.

Like in love, personal experience is indispensable in music. Have you ever asked others to love for yourself? As children are yet to be aware of the tremendous value of learning, their parents should get involved to support them by maintaining their learning regularly, creating a healthy environment for them to practice in a concentrated and active manner, helping them form good learning habits in class and at home. Especially, parents and children should find the same voice in practice timeframe and turn practice into a daily activity. If so, efforts spent will work.

Humans generally pursue freedom in whatever context, from thought to action. And principle and discipline are the supportive tools for them to realize desired freedom. On this basis, the spirit of freedom is realized through action, not through the thought that keeps lingering in our head. Music is an art form that expresses true freedom. It’s like love that takes us to the path of self-discovery and endless creative horizons. Making differences and uniqueness is the way for individuals to show their freedom in music. In school, your children may copy other’s test to earn the score of 10. Yet, no one can help them do the test in front of a musical instrument, even their teacher and parents. Your children’s performance isn’t necessary to be good. What really matters is that the performance shows what they’ve perceived and reveals their differences. It isn’t by chance that music has reached great achievements with the appearance of a series of excellent artists, musicians, and high-quality music products. Despite this, generations of people are waiting for their turn to step into the temple of art. This reflects the individuality, independence, uniqueness of music. Learners can change everything. So, give your children opportunities to explore themselves and the marvelous world of music.

One of the leading philosophies in the 21st century is “the future determines the present”. Future goals are the source of motivation for learners to make breakthroughs, overcome present barriers with admirable endurance in learning and practicing. To have such miraculous changes, learners have to take themselves as experiments. It’s difficult to master playing a musical instrument, but what’s more difficult is training personality. Such good virtues as diligence, carefulness, patience, persistence, etc. don’t exist as a matter of course. They are all trained in the learning process with the support of a tool. It’s musical instrument. These are the two sides of the same coin. On the one hand, learners need to be diligent, hard-working, and persistent to go far on the long way. On the one hand, it’s the long way that helps create such virtues in them. .

Music is the language that can move everyone’s heart and inspire them to make changes. Learning how to play musical instruments may have its start from some mistaken images, but it in fact is the beginning of a journey to explore and awaken untapped potential of individuals.