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a little update from me. :) i have now told all my students and parents, there was only 3 phone calls to make and i made them the week before lessons were due to start again. all the parents are very pleased for me and are all very willing to change lesson times, bring their kids here for lessons, e...

hi, thanks for your reply. i haven't told pupils or parents yet, as i don't have my first scan til next week, so i haven't told many people at all, only very close family. the last lessons of term have been this week, so i'm thinking i'll either ring round a couple of weeks before we start again in ...

hi fellow pianists, i am 12 weeks pregnant and need to start thinking about what i'm going to do about my 6 piano students. i am due at the end of January so initial thoughts are that i keep them going til Christmas. my main priority is one of my students is taking grade 2 in november and of course ...

I can imagine how that would become very irritating! But to never mention it at all, only as a passing comment, seems a bit odd to me. I can't help thinking that if I had been told at the beginning, I could have found the right material straight away and both kids would be happier and making better ...

thanks for all your suggestions. I hadn't heard of Playing with Colour but I like the look of it, and the other suggestions too. I have the summer now to have a proper browse through them all and start again in September with a new approach. I have another student who I discovered is also dyslexic b...

I have a pupil who is 9 and has been having piano lessons for a year and a half. I think her dad mentioned once when I expressed concern at her progress that she is dyslexic but nothing has been said since. Her progress is frustratingly slow. She has been learning the same 4 8-bar tunes for 6 months...

thank you both for your suggestions. i have spoken to her mum before about her concentration and behaviour and things improved briefly after that. i have a selection of music books with me every lesson and i have shown her a couple of these and played her a few of the tunes but she says they look to...

i have been teaching piano for a few years and have 1 student who is causing me huge frustration. she is 11 years old and has been having lessons for about a year and a half now. at first she was fantastic, very keen, listened to everything i said and showed good progress through her tutor book. but...