Thanks, Dude-- that's what has always sort of been in the back of my mind. LOL on the Burgundy...
We've insisted that she stick with piano because, well--
nine years this year. It has been very good for her to have something... anything... where her effort is pretty much directly proportional to results. It's been one of the few tools we've had in this direction. And-- senior in high school. So dropping it made no sense and would have been damaging in terms of college applications/scholarships.
But we have also truly tried to be flexible there and let her choose what kinds of things to work on, and we buy her music that SHE likes. She has a LOT of show tunes, Elton John, Billy Joel, etc. I've told her that she is certainly authorized to determine that she is done (or even taking a break) at the end of the school year.
She got a classical guitar for Christmas, and is eager to take lessons, but doesn't feel that she has the bandwidth for it currently. This summer, though.
