Are the piano lessons at your house, or do you have to take all the kids to the piano lessons? Â B/c if they are at your house, only the child receiving the lesson at the time is busy, right? Â Also, do they WANT to take the lessons? Â If they want to take the lessons and do not mind the time commitments (heck, even enjoy them!), then I do not see it as a problem. Â If the kids also feel that they need more down time, then I think you all would need to sit down together and look at your calendar and discuss the realities of budgeting time. Â Ten and eight years of age is old enough to *start* grasping this concept. Â Maybe one of them will decide that they are fine w/ just playing the piano on their own and not taking lessons for a while, who knows?
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Anyone BTDT? I am really struggling with how busy we all are, but I'm having a hard time figuring out what to cut out. My older kids are serious swimmers (for their age). Since I am at the pool 2-3 times a week, I have my younger kids in lessons 2X a week, and then we stay and play for free swim. We all love music. But the weekly piano lessons for #1,2,3 take a lot of time, as does the practice. We also do one foreign language lesson a week (we lived abroad and we didn't want the kids to lose their second language, which was hard-won). So there we go. Fully booked. We don't have tv or watch movies, which helps since they do have time to play, but not as much as they want or need.
