You guys, my daughter is about to turn 15 months old. What's my avenue? I'm looking for cheap.
Also, I'm REALLY hoping to get her into music instead of sports. For a lot of reasons. Any tips?
For music:
1. Start piano lessons if possible. Each of my kids start piano in 2nd grade, I don't know if it's the best time to start but that's what we did. You will be miles ahead of most kids. You'll understand music theory and the building blocks of music.
2. Expose your kids to lots of types of music and let them see you enjoy it. Live, recorded, you playing etc. I know you'll do this. Take advantage of free concerts whenever you can.
For sports:
I don't know what is best, but moving your body is essential and in the modern world kids just operate differently. So you can still be a moving healthy person with teaching your kids to ride a bike and swim and run etc. but I think the experience of team and individual sports are good milestones of development. Rec sports are a great option for this if you want to avoid the club stuff. You can not go nuts but have your kid on a rec soccer or rec swim team or whatever.
I'm learning that you can have well rounded kids that have their favorite thing, but also participate in _______. Like for my 15 year old, he loves writing and is super successful in the newspaper/yearbook/writing competitions and that's his passion, and he participates in track and swimming. That's great for him. My 13 year old loves loves loves soccer and participates in band at school. That's great too.
