This week, musician and music educator Barbie Wong joins us to look ahead to summer and consider attending summer music camp. We share some of the benefits and also a few ideas to raise funds to help make attendance possible. Enjoy!

Links in this Episode:

Support the podcast by purchasing the Recording (Video & Audio) of Christine Goodner's Talk on Supporting Attention & Focus in Music Students

Teachers: A Studio Rate is available so that you can share with your whole program HERE

Barbie Wong's Website: BarbieWong.com

Susanna Klein's Interview on the podcast

Resources at SuzukiTriangle.com

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On this week's episode of the Time to Practice podcast, I'm thrilled to welcome Sarah Hart-Unger, MD, parent of three, podcaster and author of the new book Best Laid Plans: A Simple Planning System for Living a Life You LOVE. I'm a huge fan of Sarah's podcast(s) and book and when I heard that she grew up involved in music, practices with one of her own children, and currently plays her piano to enrich her life as an adult I was so excited to have her on the podcast to share her story and ideas about planning with us.

Links in this Episode:

Support the podcast by purchasing the Recording (Video & Audio) of Christine Goodner's Talk on Supporting Attention & Focus in Music Students

Teachers: A Studio Rate is available so that you can share with your whole program HERE

Sarah Hart Unger's Website

The Book: Best Laid Plans

Sarah's podcasts Best Laid Plans

& Best of Both Worlds with Laura Vanderkam

Planners mentioned:

Fast Brain Friend Planner

Order Out of Chaos Planner

Study about the skill of Planning as a Executive Function Skill developing into the late 20's

Resources at SuzukiTriangle.com

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In this short episode, Christine shares some insight into understanding focus and ADHD related to music practice for young musicians along with a few resources to find more information and supportive ideas. This is the first in a few episodes over the spring on this topic - please reach out with what questions or information you'd like to see in a future episode!

Links in this episode:

ADDitude Magazine/Website

Iceberg Handout from this episode created by ADDitude

Episode 115 with Tera Sumpter

Peak Mind by Dr. Amishi Jha

Resources at SuzukiTriangle.com

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Barbie Wong joins us this week for our monthly chat on topics related to supporting young musicians in their learning and music practice. This month we're talking about the importance of listening in a young musician's life.

Links in this Episode:

Find Barbie Wong's Website HERE

Join Christine & Barbie in the Musical Nest Community

Does Listening to Music Benefit the Music Learning Process on BulletproofMusician.com

Join Christine's March 7th Talk as an Individual or as a Studio

Resources at SuzukiTriangle.com

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On this week's episode I'm sharing 9 ways to spark motivation for young musicians with their music practice. There may be some new ideas, or they could be good reminders and help you take an inventory of something you know helps your child, or your students, but haven't incorporated in a while.

Links in this Episode:

Join Christine's March 7th Talk as an Individual or as a Studio

Book Recommendation: The Self-Driven Child

Episode 68 on Practice Challenges

Year of wonder by Clemency Burton-Hill

Resources at SuzukiTriangle.com

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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).

Links in this Episode

Find Megan Orton's Handouts and Website HERE

Join Christine's March 7th Talk as an Individual or as a Studio

Resources at SuzukiTriangle.com

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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!

Links in this Episode:

Find Chrstine's Books HERE

Find Barbie Wong's Website HERE

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

Join Christine & Barbie in the Musical Nest Community

Resources at SuzukiTriangle.com

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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!

Links in this Episode:

Find Christine's books HERE

Resources at SuzukiTriangle.com

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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.

Links in this episode:

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

ARTICLE about setting intentions

Resources at SuzukiTriangle.com

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