2 year old Isabella learning with Soft Mozart

NadiaD wrote: @ Lee

what makes greatness, even more than innate ability is persistence and patience and practice, and finding ways to steadily overcome obstacles is as important as making big leaps forwards.

Copied , enlarged and printed out for myself

Steady moving forward ...

This coming week I will focus even more on creative ways to engage my DD in piano playing!

She really liked fruit lines.

Note alphabet was not her favorite...

I would like to suggest if possible in future upgrades of the program to modify Note alphabet Game that you will be able to pick Vertical or horizontal way the Notes on the Staff are presented, or at least that in the beginning of the game Staff stays in vertical position a bit longer, at least 2-3 minutes.

Like this younger children will have chance to master the note alphabet first in vertical position... In order to practice more I always was restarting the game as soon as staff presentation was switched to horizontal way...

Mandabplus3 wrote: Oh that makes me laugh Jaykob filled his reward chart and got his Lego, he was super excited! It did get tricky on day 6 when he wanted it now, but he was good day 7 he filled every space for me before 9 am I even got him to play two piano games to fill a hole on another day!
I often wonder how I can capitalize on the sillyness. I am sure that some of the silly things they do could be turned to our advantage if we knew more! Some days he drives me nuts other days I can laugh it off. Once his silliness resulted in his best ever score....he was playing faster than superman! I try to encourage this one! I understand your frustration it's hard to see the improvement sometimes. I have faith that like teaching reading it is all in there somewhere!

NadiaD wrote: We keep playing introductory songs with 2 hands.

Little by little I am managing to increase the piano time, so hopefully DD will get better. She has her skill improving, but her attitude towards lessons is not serious, well she is a child....

This week I manage to super motivate DD with Lego - thanks, Manda. I did not do sticker chart, because she is still not getting idea of long term reward. She wants to be rewarded right there right now....

We got her this cute Lego set as a "present" last weekend and she would not want to do anything else, but play with it.
www.amazon.com/Lego-Duplo-Ultimate-Build...id=1328675442&sr=1-1
Well , when she was taking a nap I hid the Lego. Of course, the first thing she asked for when she woke up was Lego. So I explained that she will get back her "present" if she played the piano, her answer was: "I do not want Present." "Well great, so you are not getting it...'' In about 5 min. my DD comes downstairs, saying cheerfully : "Mom, I play piano. and starts to sing HCB in solfeggio.

Well, she does practice but still being silly, but I am sure we will get it under control somehow....