This made Me think of Diary of a Wimpy kid. There’s a joke in that book (and the movie) that Susan wants the family to be a band, and Greg is horrified by the thought of performing with his embarassing family. So that’s our cultural norm in the 21st century, that’s the story we tell about family music.
But that old tradition can be revived by parents. All they have to do is learn the instruments and teach their children. For so many families, making music together is an idle dream, but it’s not that hard to do it. We just have passive parents who don’t teach their kids this stuff.
This made Me think of Diary of a Wimpy kid. There’s a joke in that book (and the movie) that Susan wants the family to be a band, and Greg is horrified by the thought of performing with his embarassing family. So that’s our cultural norm in the 21st century, that’s the story we tell about family music.
But that old tradition can be revived by parents. All they have to do is learn the instruments and teach their children. For so many families, making music together is an idle dream, but it’s not that hard to do it. We just have passive parents who don’t teach their kids this stuff.