Flute lesson, I held the baby!

Israel
July 4, 2024 8:19am CST
Today a woman came to a flute lesson with her 2 month old baby. About half way through, the baby started fussing and then crying. So I had the student play and I held the baby. The baby girl quieted down a bit, and I was able to hear the student and comment on how to make her playing better, remembering the Bb, and Eb in the piece. Have you ever done this?
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@JudyEv (334404)
• Rockingham, Australia
4 Jul
I've had mothers read to my children in their cars while I was teaching their children. Our younger son would be running out the door with a book as the car pulled up.
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• Israel
7 Jul
Cute, You did great work with those children.
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@marguicha (219877)
• Chile
4 Jul
There are so many ways of dealing with children. My best success was to teach a 4th grader to read. The mother, rich and intellectual, had tried everything that money could give. I asked for a book with lots of pictures in sports, the only subject he was interested in. And quickly discovered that he had hyperkinetic disorder. So when I saw him fidgeting too much, I told him to go to the garden and run around a big plum tree I had. When he came back, I offered him a banana or an orange and we started again. We loved each other. And I did not care much for his too cold mother.
• Israel
7 Jul
Wow! You tuned into the child and gave him what he would have never had from his mother. I hope that he grew up to be a fine reader!
@Rimps85 (1605)
• India
4 Jul
there must be no one to take care of that toddler
@grenery8 (7248)
• Croatia (Hrvatska)
7 Jul
i didn't know you teach flute and very kind of you for holding a baby but, why was baby there in the first place?