Children Learning to Play!

[DALederle]

This is an awsome sight. These kids are way ahead pf most learning curves.
Enjoy the performance!

UNBELIEVABLE.....IN KINDERGARTEN.



Kindergarten class... Simply awesome..



http://www.youtube.com/embed/yE7waNi5dc0



Dennis A. Lederle

Remember Al Gore invented the internet!!!!!!!!!!!

[Big and Bashful]

I love the fact that they are almost hidden by their guitars! It's an excellent clip, I have seen someone post a link to this somewhere else but can't remember where, thanks for the reminder Dennis!

[Since1982]

I loved it. Looks like we in the West better watch out for China again. I wonder who taught them that perfect head-bobbing. It's like a row of guitars with bobbing heads. I wish I'd been able to do that at age 4-5...I was happy sitting on the side of a pond watching the frogs eat flying bugs. I remember my Dad and I'd bet on which frog had the longest tongue, to pluck insects out of the air with.

[phathack]

They are North Korean.

[DALederle]

Skip:
The only reason you couldn't do that at that age was because no one thought of it!
You expressed no interest in it, I'll bet. And so no one tried to give you guitar lessons at age 4-5. But I'll bet money these kids weren't given a choice. They were taken in hand and told to do this. It is still great that kids that young can do something like this. It shows what we are all capable of with some effort.
Too bad its all parents pushing in the background and not kids wanting!
But that's another rant for another time!
COL!

Dennis A. Lederle
Up, up away....

[Since1982]

I've read in various places that Asian children are raised very much like American children USED to be raised here. ie: "Spare the rod and spoil the child". Or as I call it, "the Mother Lion training method". I see mama lions giving their cubs swats when they are bad and thereby growing perfectly trained cubs.

[crfriend]

I've read in various places that Asian children are raised very much like American children USED to be raised here. ie: "Spare the rod and spoil the child". Or as I call it, "the Mother Lion training method".

Thanks to a recent best-selling book the notion now has a name: the "Tiger Mom". In this, the child is stripped of any semblance of emotional support and is driven relentlessly to be PERFECT -- anything else represents abject failure. A really bloody charming approach to child-rearing if you ask me. No wonder the suicide-rate for youngsters in Asian countries is off the charts.

Now, don't get me wrong; driving kids from time to time can be useful, and may help them excel -- in things they are likely already innately interested in. However, it also produces the sort of "dog and pony show" seen in the video clip where children are set up to perform like trained animals. Been there, done that, it's not pleasant.

In the end I gravitated very naturally to technology, and computing in particular. I blew the statistical curve in that I also happened to stink at mathematics (mainly because it was so poorly taught, although I would not understand that for years) and one had to be a mathematical whiz to even begin to understand computers. My music suffered because of it, and that's something I just have to deal with. I still aced the SATs (the Scholastic Aptitude Test -- a "standardised test" that determines whether you'll have a future in the USA) for my command of the language, but fluffed the maths portion of it guaranteeing I was going to be a fire-watcher or underachiever; I looked that in the eye, went to a vocational computing school (strictly for the paper credentials; the place taught me nothing I hadn't already picked up), and it's been smooth sailing since -- because I was not hounded relentlessly to be something I was not, nor could have been.

Humans have long memories; I wonder how the "Tiger Moms" in the modern world will be remembered by their children when it's time for the nursing-home.

[ethelthefrog]

Humans have long memories; I wonder how the "Tiger Moms" in the modern world will be remembered by their children when it's time for the nursing-home.

"Be nice to your kids: they choose your nursing home"

I'm still smarting from being told, at age 7, that I had garbage collection in my future because I had a short attention span in school and didn't much like reading and writing. I was "encouraged" so hard to read and write that it took me until after I picked up my honours degree in electronic engineering before I actually began reading for pleasure. And now I write for pleasure too. And I'm thinking of doing another degree, this one in literature. In your eye, Dad.

That said, he did his best, and nobody taught him how to be a good parent, and we've got a pretty reasonable relationship now.

[DALederle]

Sometimes the school of hard knocks is the best teacher! Other times some formal learning, though is the only way! We have to pick and choose our course of actions.
Theres room for everyone and everything in this old world of ours!

Okay, I know, let's not start a string about how old the world is! Too many opinions this subject!
After all, the world is evolving as God intended it too!

Dennis A. Lederle
I wish I had a coke to give to everyone in the world!
Don't know that that would matter!