{"id":1825,"date":"2010-04-07T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janice-campbell.com\/?p=356"},"modified":"2018-10-19T18:16:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T18:16:10","slug":"hey-mom-listen-to-this-great-performance-how-to-raise-a-boy-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doingwhatmatters.com\/hey-mom-listen-to-this-great-performance-how-to-raise-a-boy-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Mom, Listen to this Great Performance: How to Homeschool a Boy, Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s beautiful weather must have inspired all the boys. Shortly after I came back from checking out the jungle gym (see the previous post), my oldest son e-mailed me to check out the beautiful performance he&#8217;d just found of Franz Lizst&#8217;s <em><strong>Christus<\/strong><\/em>. He&#8217;d posted it as his Facebook status for the weekend, and wanted to make sure I got to enjoy it too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube\">\n<div class=\"video-container\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kb3peL_Mt0Y?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s what he wrote to accompany it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Favorite musical selection for this weekend \u2014 Franz Liszt&#8217;s amazing oratorio on the life of Christ. I listen to this final section all the time. This is rarely performed and recordings are hard to come by. This is a video I created from my music collection. Please take the time to listen to this music, it can change your life. Have a blessed weekend.&#8221;<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For several years, he posted a favorite classical music section almost daily. If you click to read all the information he included with this video, you&#8217;ll find an overview of the oratorio, the artists, and finally the words to this particular piece, plus links to more information. If you want to learn more about classical music, he&#8217;s a good person to know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It&#8217;s not because I taught it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Guess what? I didn&#8217;t teach him all this. I didn&#8217;t teach him how to listen to and understand classical music; how to discern small differences that make one performance superior to another; or how to transfer music from a CD to a video that could go into YouTube (he actually considers himself a techno-klutz).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All we did was provide access to the family stereo with the radio dial set to NPR, plus\u00a0recordings \u00a0of composer biographies with music, the Classical Kid series including <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2RZMnBe\" target=\"_blank\">Beethoven Lives Upstairs<\/a>,<\/strong><\/em> and Professor Carol&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.professorcarol.com\/discovering-music\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Discovering Music<\/em> <\/strong><\/a>course. When we asked what he wanted for his 14th birthday, he requested the audio course, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegreatcourses.com\/courses\/how-to-listen-to-and-understand-great-music-3rd-edition.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>How to Listen to and Understand Great Music<\/em><\/strong><\/a> with Robert Greenberg, published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegreatcourses.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Great Courses<\/a>. He listened to it repeatedly, and for each subsequent birthday asked for and received other Teaching Company courses on music, history, literature, philosophy, and government.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, and we also gave him the time and freedom to listen, learn, and then explore what he wanted to learn more about. We tried to make sure his brothers didn&#8217;t tease him too much about singing audibly, and as one result, he&#8217;s currently preparing for a recital of tenor arias. 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If he had to wait for me to learn it all and teach him, he wouldn&#8217;t know a fraction of what he knows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Children have nearly unlimited time to learn things quickly while their interest is hot, and if you can provide resources and time, chances are they&#8217;ll learn way more than you&#8217;ll ever teach them. It may not be on a topic you&#8217;d choose, but they need to be able to explore what really interests them so they will know themselves and their unique gift and calling when they reach adulthood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An overly regimented child is less likely to really know what he enjoys, or where his true skills lie. Even though it may seem counter-intuitive, doing less with them is often better than doing more. Children are people too, and they need time and space to become who they were meant to be.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.doingwhatmatters.com\/momma-want-to-see-a-snake-how-to-raise-boys-part-1\/\">How to Homeschool a Boy, Part I<\/a><br \/><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.doingwhatmatters.com\/hey-mom-want-to-see-my-jungle-gym-how-to-raise-boys-part-2\/\">How to Homeschool a Boy, Part 2<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.doingwhatmatters.com\/hey-mom-listen-to-this-great-performance-how-to-raise-a-boy-part-3\/\">How to Homeschool a Boy, Part 3<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.doingwhatmatters.com\/learning-styles-do-they-make-a-difference\/\">Learning Styles<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>*<strong>Note<\/strong>: This series of posts is presented, not in a spirit of \u201cI did it all right,\u201d because no one knows better than I how many things I didn\u2019t do right, but in a spirit of encouragement. 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