Parent Lectures
Let Clayton Scott show parents that, by offering and encouraging music, they are giving the most precious gift to their children.
- To make music is one of the highest human accomplishments. Music requires and develops a combination of physical abilities, intellectual powers, emotional responses — and, at music’s highest levels, spirituality. Music stretches the intellect as fully as math or a language.
- Through music, you, as a parent, can give your child more than an “intellect stretcher”. You are giving your child a resource for life: an outlet for his or her emotions. You will know you have been successful when your child goes to the piano, or picks up his violin or her flute, and plays — because he is unbearably sad, or because she is overwhelmingly happy, or simply for the sheer joy of making music.
The road to success, as the saying goes, is always under construction. Clayton Scott can help you build that road to a satisfying musical relationship with your child.
Lecture titles
- Growing With Your Child: When to Practise, When to Listen… When to Bow Out.
- The Perfectionist Child — The Perfectionist Parent.
- Music: Public Performance or Private Pleasure?
- An Overview of the Suzuki Method: The parent’s role and how to provide motivation, especially for the younger child.
- Music: A Long-term Investment in Courage, Creativity and Challenge.
- Motivation: Igniting the Flame and Keeping it Lit — Supportive and Balanced Approaches that Motivate.
- How to Know your Child / Know your Student — And why it matters that you do: Effective ways to Support and Inspire.
- Music as Metamorphosis: How Music Changes Us.
Other lectures can be arranged upon request.