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They get engaged with their child’s learning
That’s according to researchers in England who conducted a 
study in which they surveyed and interviewed academic experts 
and reviewed recently published international studies regarding 
parental engagement and child academic achievement. They 
found that parents help young children the most by reading to 
them, listening to them read, helping them learn letters, numbers, 
songs and nursery rhymes, interacting positively with them and 
modeling parental literacy. When kids are older, they do better 
in school when their parents go on field trips, participate in the 
classroom, show an interest in school and monitor how kids are 
doing with homework and tests.
They get them to take music lessons
Researchers from the University of Georgia and the University of 
Alabama surveyed 2,323 parents of kids ages seven to 17 who were 
currently participating in some kind of private music lesson and 
found that the majority of parents see several ways music lessons 
help their kids manage their time and attention.
• Eighty-five percent feel that lessons have improved their child’s 
patience, resiliency and ability to finish tasks, even hard ones.
• Sixty-eight percent believe that lessons have improved their 
child’s ability to finish tasks on time as well their competence 
using a planner or calendar to track what’s on their plate.

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THE IMPORTANT 
THING IS TO 
INFORM KIDS 
ABOUT WHY 
LIMITING 
SCREEN TIME 
IS IMPORTANT, 
AND THEN 
LETTING THEM 
CHOOSE THEIR 
OWN LIMITS. 
• Eighty-three percent think that lessons have helped them be 
more self-aware and receive feedback to improve performance.
• Sixty percent feel lessons have helped their child get better at 
self-monitoring and limiting screen time because they know it 
benefits them.
• Seventy-one percent of parents believe that because of 
taking lessons their kids are better at prioritization and self-
monitoring screen time because when they do so they have 
more time to do activities which are important to them.
While the study was commissioned by Guitar Center, which 
is certainly biased on the subject, it fits that the daily practice 
involved in preparing to meet with a music instructor builds 
diligence and perseverance. It’s also an appreciable amount of time 
kids aren’t spending on their phones.