Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.
My parents were both high-school music teachers.
'What can your kids teach you?' Well, I believe something different about kids. We don't own them, they have their own knowledge. From the start you have to make the choice to listen.
My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.
I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.
I have visited schools that have music programs and those that don't. I see the way the kids act with each other.
Children need teachers who have stars in their eyes themselves and who treat them with respect.
When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry a tune.
Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.