News Summary

• As a parent, it's tempting to look at all the activities other kids are doing and wonder whether you're supposed to be signing your kids up, too.
• When our kids reached the age when many of their friends were starting piano, violin, or other music lessons, we took a different approach.
• If they wanted to learn an instrument, we told them we would support them.
• But we weren't going to spend hundreds of dollars on lessons and then spend the next several years nagging them to practice something they never asked to do.