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Originally Posted by Hitch
ApK:
(Sorry for the hijacking. This thread is now returned to its normal programming.)
Hitch
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Meh, discussing WHY we can't finish some of these books seems on topic to me.
As to your point, you gave an anology that is really hitting home at the moment. I'm trying to figure out how to "goad" my son in to putting effort and practice into his clarinet playing.
SOME children may take that forced practice and become prodigies or whatever, but I think it's far more typical that they have all the joy sucked out of the endeavor and rebel against it.
Yet, as you say, they need to SOMEHOW be taught to give effort and do things that are other than easy or pleasant.
The question then, is how best to teach it.
Just as there are musical methods that are more enjoyable and entertaining than just rote scales and finger exorcises, and yet reliably lead to the same success, so too may there be a way to lead kids from the comic books and YA adventure into the heavier stuff other than just locking them in a classroom and forcing them to read Chaucer for hours a day.
ApK