Morning, Barb!
S'ok! Rambi doesn't like responsibility and said she'd put her name on a thread only if she never had to speak. You can ask, she just never answers. I, however, willingly write especially about music or parenting. Usually I don't know much about other topics, but we have such smart people here, there's always an opinion to be found.
SInce the family is asking for gift hints, I'll put the McKinnett tape on my list. It sounds lovely.
Wasn't Shine a great movie!!! I ran out and bought the Rachmaninoff 3 (with Ashkenazy, not the Shine version), but the Rach 2 is still my favorite and the second movement reduces me to an emotional puddle without fail.
I remember talking about your daughter's musical abilities last year and being impressed that you were letting her lead the way. How is she doing? Does she still enjoy it? I believe she had chosen violin over piano? One of the parenting decisions Dan and I made regarding our children's talents and abilities was to not push them. Any interests they have are, for the most part, self-driven, while we provided the money and the opportunity to follow through. We've wondered about that through the years and still debate whether we did them a disservice or a favor. I'm not sure that a child will achieve in a field like music or sports without a lot of parental discipline and guidance, coupled with a love of the activity, but there's a fine line when the parents' ambition can take over. On the other hand, now CW frequently gives me that "Why didn't you MAKE me?" guilt stuff. After we watched Shine, I said, "That's why I didn't make you. I was afraid I'd get confused about who it was for."
"You should have made me," muttered CW.
So you can't win. |
