My suggestion is that *you* take lessons - I think you'd really enjoy it!
Re what is the best method - I don't think that one method is necessarily any better than another. I think (and this is just an "I think" because we didn't really pursue it ever) that Suzuki is promoted for young children because it can be taught without relying on knowing the alphabet or those types of skills which are often learned in early elementary for typical kids. Our then-three-year-old dd started taking traditional piano lessons when her older brother and sister did simply because she wanted to do everything that they did. Her teacher started her out with very short (ten minute) lessons but taught her from traditional beginner books. DD is a HG+ uber-acheiver and she had no problem keeping up with her lessons. The one caveat I'll add though is that now that she's 8, my take on it is, she is at the same place (re piano skill) that she would have been at had she not started until she was 6 years old. She's a small kid, and hand size played a role in what she could and couldn't do during those early years of learning. That might be one reason to start with violin... but I don't know. I was never a string player, and I love the piano
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