The Guitar Lesson

It was Frog's birthday last week and while she claimed "I want for nothing Mummy, I have everything I could possibly need" (which is clearly both mildly nauseating and blatently untrue) she actually did have a birthday wish after all.  She wants to learn to play the guitar.

Being completely tone deaf myself I am more than happy to indulge her musical passions!  So I visited Foote's for a pink guitar and found two local guitar teachers to try out. (Frog and I, rather meanly I agree, thought this was sort of like the X factor).  Both teachers were great and one was perfect.

Most specially while Frog had her lesson I was able to watch her learning.  And I was profoundly moved; by her concentration, her passion to learn and her willingness to keep trying until she got things right.

When we pack our children off to school we miss out on so much of the wonder of their learning. I'd forgotten how much tenacity children have when they really want to know something (remember learning to walk) and they're so flexible and fearless - happy to make mistakes and then just try doing things a different way in order to achieve the end result.

As grown ups we are much more rigid, much more scared of doing things;  I have so much to learn from my Frog!