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Is Music the Key to Success?
- Camillo 13y agoI'm going to go out on a limb and say that professional success and studying music both correlate with having an upper class background.
- orasis 13y agoConfirmation bias. This is hack pseudo-science.
- geebee 13y agoAs a parent of two little kids, I learned from the NYTimes/Atlantic/New Yorker/National Enquirer that there are several dozen essential keys to success. They include: - sports (that enhance "executive function") - music - art - reading a lot - learning a second language - unstructured play time - engaging in lots of conversation - dance - creative writing - playing in dirt - identifying animals and plants in nature - games that involve spatial reasoning - mind melding with pregnant martians ...and many, many more! And here's the truly terrifying thing - you have to do all of them. After all, your friends on facebook have posted pictures of their kids doing all of them. So, ahem, get to it! Seriously, it's easy to get yourself all wound up, and there is no way you could possibly do all these things. So I'd just ask, is your kid engaged in something interesting, and does your kid seem to enjoy it? I'm going to guess that if you're the sort of parent who stresses about something you read in the NYTimes, your kid probably isn't parked in front of the TV eating cheetos for 6+ hours a day. Just for the record (heh), I particularly love music, and I'm all for it as one good choice among many, but there are a lot, and I mean a lot, of things your kids can do that build all kinds of wonderful life skills. You're doing a couple of them, right? You're doin' great. Seriously. Don't stress.