Time To Practice: Conversations for Parents & Teachers of Music Students

Megan Orton is a Suzuki trained violin teacher, a parent, and owns Mindful Media where she shares about screen time and parenting and helps parents and caregivers make smart decisions about screen times in their homes.

We have a great conversation about how low efffort - high reward ativities like some kinds of screen time can make it hard to transition into more deeply focused work like music practice and some ideas to think about as you navigate screen time and music practice (or talk to families in your program who do).

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Music educator and expert on helping kids with musci practice, Barbie Wong is back this week for her monthly conversation with us on the podcast. We address the topic of helping foster practice at home for music students that is focusted and systematic vs "playing through" that many families tell us they are lookng to avoid.

Enjoy and let us know what you would add to our list!

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Find Barbie Wong's Website HERE

Book - Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, by Anders Eriksson

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This week we're discussing the idea of music practice as quality time: quality time with your child (if you're involved in their music practice), quality time with our instrument, or with music we love and we'll hear from three parents who share how they think about music practice as quality time in their house.

If you have a story like this to share, please reach out, because I will be sharing more examples in a future episode!

Links in this Episode:

Beyond the Music Lesson Book

Amy Beth Horman Episode 48 & 49

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Speech Pathologist and Executive Function Skills expert Tera Sumpter joins us this week to talk about executive function skills and music practice. If you've ever felt like "something is going on here that is about more than music" this episode is for you!

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Request a Parent Talk, Presentation, or Book Club Discussion with Christine

Connect with Tera Sumpter & Find her resources below:

Instagram Education: @TeraSumpter_SLP

Global Executive Function Education: https://community.terasumpter.com/

Website: terasumpter.com

The Seeds of Learning book

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As we enter the new year, this short episode is meant to give you food for thought as you set your goals or intentions for your music life in the new year. That could be for your own music practice or for your child(ren) involved in music lessons.

Whenever you listen, I hope it gives you some good starting points to think about your own goals and intentions for the coming months.

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Setting Families Up for Success: Join Christine's 10 hour SAA Enrichment course for teachers starting January 9th

ARTICLE about setting intentions

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This week, as the holidays are upon us we're revisiting a practice tip from expert guest Nicola Cantan. This is a short excerpt from a longer episode 80 when Nicola came and joined us on the podcast. You can find the link to the full episode and to Nicola's resources below.

I enjoyed revisiting this practice advice and found it super valuable and I'm sure you will too!

Links in this episode:

Setting Families Up for Success: Join Christine's 10 hour SAA Enrichment course for teachers starting January 9th

Listen to the full interview with Nicola Cantan from Episode 80 HERE

Nicola Cantan's Website: Vibrantmusicteaching.com

Nicola Cantan's blog

Practice Pie by Nicola Cantan

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It's a busy time of year. It seems teachers, students and families alike are go-go-go. I am hitting pause this week to share 6 things keeping me motivated, inspired, and engaged in music over the last couple of weeks. My list may look totally different than yours, but I hope in listening to mine you can connect with what would go on YOUR list and that we all remember why we do what we do. Happy listening!

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Setting Families Up for Success: Join Christine's 10 hour SAA Enrichment course for teachers starting January 9th

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This week we're welcoming Linda Piatt back to the podcast for part two of our conversation together. This is an important episode for parents and music educators that tackles the topic of unexpected and concerning behaviors that may come up. Linda talks us through a framework from Dr. Ross Greene that made all the difference in her family in both music practice and school.

Links in this Episode with Linda Piatt

Suzuki Teacher? Join Christine's 10 hour SAA Enrichment course starting January 9th

Helping Parents Practice by Edmund Sprunger

Gebrain on TTP

Mindset Neuroscience Podcast, Stephanie Faye

Music Practice Makeover by Christine Goodner

Collaborative Proactive Solutions and Dr. Ross Greene link: https://livesinthebalance.org/our-solution/

Linda Piatt's Website

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Expert Guest Linda Piatt starts off this two part podcast series with what she has learned as a parent of two young musicians (in addition to being a performer and music educator) about making home practice work. She has great tips & insights to share and I can't wait for you to listen!

Links in this Episode with Linda Piatt

Beyond the Music Lesson Book Discussion: A Parent talk FREE for Newsletter Subscribers

Helping Parents Practice by Edmund Sprunger

Dr. Molly Gebrain on TTP

Mindset Neuroscience Podcast, Stephanie Faye

Music Practice Makeover by Christine Goodner

Collaborative Proactive Solutions and Dr. Ross Greene link: https://livesinthebalance.org/our-solution/

Linda Piatt's Website

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This week we're revisiting a short practice tip from three previous expert guest interviews: cellist and composer Bianca d'Avila do Prado, flutist and author Meret Bitticks, and violinist and nonprofit expert consultant Dr. Elizabeth Guerriero.

Typically at the end of each interview I ask guests what their favorite practice tip or idea is at the time of the interview and its always great to revisit these little nuggets of wisdom on their own - I can't wait for you to listen!

Links in this Episode:

Episode 69 with Bianca d'Avila do Prado, Find her music HERE

Episode 64 with Meret Bitticks, find her book HERE

Episode 67 with Dr. Elizabeth Guerriero

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