I'm not done reading it but I stopped to post I caught myself unconsciously shaking my head "yes" like a bobblehead doll while reading the piano teachers response. Lazy "westerners", hoping for talent and cruel "Chinese mothers" forcing mindless drills until midnight so the cute puppy can do a trick by morning are both wrong. Everybody's all wrong. (especially me for repeating those bigoted name-callings. You're right lucounu, i'm prejudice and I'm going to hades). You need to give the kid's tools and skills complete with understanding and this should be patiently cultivated and it takes time. I was, I was sitting there shaking my head yes while I was reading this.

Youth lives by personality, age lives by calculation. -- Aristotle on a calendar