What’s The Best Gift For Children This Holiday Season?

Music: as in a gift certificate for music lessons. That’s the answer to the question posed in the title.

Music calms, motivates, and engages. Students who play music score better on standardized tests, do better in math, and have a better chance at earning more money as adults. Troubled students taking music lessons of some sort also have been shown to improve attendance and increase their cooperation with teachers and other students. That’s not to say those things will guarantee a happy life, but they usually help get you there.

So what do we mean by music as the best gift?

Well, it used to be, back before the internet changed just about everything, that a CD for a nephew was the ultimate gift. Now, depending on your nephew’s age and abilities with the internet, he’s probably found a way to avoid paying for music but still listens to everything he wants to at any moment. An instrument, on the other hand, isn’t quite as easy to procure. If you’re looking to buy a guitar, drum set, harp, or violin, you’ll probably go down as the coolest relative ever. If your wallet isn’t quite that bulging, convince the kid’s parents to do it, and swoop in with a gift certificate for music lessons.

When a child receives an instrument, she or he probably won’t know how to play it with much authority at the start. Even if she or he can get by, a little help with technique or reading music will go a long way. Plus, the confidence that comes from working with an expert like one of the great teachers at LessonFace.com will show up throughout your loved one’s life, not just in music class. And when we say great, we mean guitarists from famous bands, vocalists who’ve toured with Barry White, and Grammy-award-winners with tons of teaching experience, that type of great.

So, if you want to give a one-off gift (not that there’s anything wrong with that), there are plenty of lists that can help you with that. But if you want to give the sort of present that lasts a lifetime and leads to happiness and stress relief, give the gift of music.

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