If your child is anything like most kids, they probably think that now that school’s out for the summer, they get to take a break from all the learning. While taking a break from the structure of school can certainly be a good thing, giving their growing brains three months off can seriously impact their academic and musical performance when they return to school in the fall. But how can you counteract their brains’ three-month-long recess during the summer season? The answer is summer music lessons!

More than simply giving them something to do, summer music lessons can remarkably affect growing brains. Let’s look at just 7 reasons to get your kids into summer music lessons!

Limit Their Screen Time

Today’s world confronts us with more screens than ever before, and it’s the same for our kids. Screens can take up a massive percentage of your child’s summer downtime, between computers, tablets, phones, TV, and video games. Most music lessons don’t use screens at all; those that do use them only as a teaching aid, not something to focus on.

With so many questions today regarding how all these screens might impact our health, summer music lessons are a fantastic way to help limit your child’s screen time while keeping them out of the summer heat!

Beat Back Boredom

As awesome and free as summer can be for kids, it can also bring a lot of boredom. Kids need a certain amount of structure in their lives, and when school ends for the summer, most of that structure ends with it. This almost always leads to boredom, especially if their friends are away at camp or participating in other activities.

But with summer music lessons, there’s no time for boredom! Between their everyday activities, lessons, practicing, and the odd performance, they’ll be too busy to be bored.

Lessons allow your child to participate in an engaging and exciting activity with other children who share their interests. Music lessons even help fight summer-time boredom outside the music room: they’ll want to practice most days of the week to improve their growing skills.

And Speaking of Practice…

Summer break offers kids much more time to dedicate to their instrument. Time that, during the rest of the year, is dedicated to other important tasks – like homework or extracurricular activities. But their weekdays clear up over the summer, and their evenings are more free, so they can play and practice whenever they want.

And with no school or after-school activities cluttering up their day, scheduling music lessons is a breeze. And don’t worry about the family trip; most summer music programs are flexible enough to work around your plans.

Maintain & Sharpen Skills

School constantly tests your child’s knowledge. This helps to ensure that the information they have been taught is readily available to their brains and fully understood by all so the class can successfully move on to the next subject.

Learning music is no different. To keep the skills and knowledge in music they have learned over the school year, they must exercise it regularly. Summer music lessons not only keep them practicing and maintaining the skills they already have but can help them sharpen them—and even learn some new ones before the school year begins.

Make New Friends

Kids make friends easily. But friendships and relationships last much longer when they share a common interest.

Music is often that amazing shared interest, and music lessons give your child the incredible opportunity to meet new people and form new friendships outside school. Meeting new friends opens the door to all kinds of new things, but it can all start with talking about the music they like to listen to and play.

The Pressure’s Off

Summer vacation is rightfully considered a time of fun and carefree excitement—and summer music lessons don’t have to diminish that.

Summer classes can be more relaxed and flexible to help with your schedule and ensure that your child has the fun and excitement they expect every year. While the value and goal of lessons stay the same as they do every other time of year, during the summer, the atmosphere and structure of the lessons should be in line with the free feeling of the season. Besides, you want your child to be excited to go back every week!

Get Ready For Next School Year

Possibly, the most important reason to get your child into summer music lessons is the impact they can have on the upcoming school year. A child’s brain is just like any other muscle; if they don’t use it, they lose it. Regular music lessons and practice keep their brains working all summer long. Even irregular lessons can help keep their mind active, exercised, and elastic – all things that help improve music and school performance.

These are just a handful of the countless reasons to get your child into summer music classes. The list goes on and on.

Not every child enjoys sports; some children do nothing but sports – music is a great way to introduce a new activity. Summer music lessons can help improve decision-making skills and self-esteem. And all of this is saying absolutely nothing about the students who start in lessons as children and go on to make music a career.

The number of benefits from summer music lessons is never-ending. And they’re not just for kids either! Adults can benefit from summer music lessons in many of the same ways kids can! Do you struggle to meet new people and make friends? Try summer music lesson!

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