February 7, 2006 - Tuesday
Sometimes I worry that I treat Harry and Jeremy differently and I've been thinking about that lately, specifically with regard to how they practice their respective instruments. I tend to push Harry a lot more to think about what he's doing and try to play things correctly before he stops practicing. Jeremy, on the other hand, tends to waltz through the pages of his Suzuki Cello Method book picking out songs and playing them once and moving on. But the thing is, I think it's not really all that reasonable to expect too much more from Jeremy at this point. For Harry, there are really not inherent physical limitations for him to be able to play his exercises and studies. Jeremy, however, just doesn't have the physical dexterity yet to really do to much. I'm quite happy that he's working through this stuff.

I guess the bottom line is having the boys feel happy about their instruments and that doing so means finding the right balance between not having practicing become onerous and making enough progress to feel proud. For now I think that means different things, although I'm not entirely confident about it.


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