Parents should never talk down to their children

Parents should never talk down to their children

Parents should never talk down to their children This one came from overhearing two distinctly different conversations a couple of weeks ago. In one, the parent treated their child with respect, in the other, the child was little more than an inferior punch-bag for the parent’s anxieties.

Posted: March 4th, 2007 | Filed under: Creative | 4 Comments »
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4 Comments on “Parents should never talk down to their children”

  1. 1 Alex Bellinger said at 2:06 am on January 1st, 2007:

    I can sympathise! Here are my tips:

    get Ableton Live – much, much easier to be spontaneous and get ideas down quickly

    don’t try and replicate the musical idea that’s in your head – sketch it and then follow the winding paths and alleys down which the machines and your own ideas lead you …

    but only allow yourself a pre-set period of time to do this.

    Use the resulting bits and pieces to create a full arrangement.

    Then and only then worry about the sound, the mix, the fx and the embillishments.

    I always find it hard to get out of the first 16 bars of a track … it’s as if I got into loop mode. The above approach has helped me. But each to their own.

  2. 2 neil said at 2:00 pm on January 1st, 2007:

    Thanks Alex. I’ll try and get my hands on a demo of Live and see how it feels. Must admit I’m not well versed in the different tools for this as I’ve found Reason so easy to approach overall. But who knows, Live might help release the floodgates!

  3. 3 nes said at 7:56 am on January 16th, 2007:

    I’m on the same boat I got writers block the same day I starte making music. I seem like I can’t make a simple melody, why me?…

  4. 4 Phil McThomas said at 6:58 pm on March 8th, 2007:

    Sorry if this is utterly intentional and obvious, but…

    I see two different perspectives…one is the child at the top of some stairs, the other is the child dangling over a trap door.

  5. 5 neil said at 7:24 pm on March 8th, 2007:

    Oooh, I hadn’t pictured it from that angle – nice idea!

  6. 6 Phil McThomas said at 8:10 pm on March 8th, 2007:

    Phew.

    I was half-expecting a “well…that was…like…the whole point”

  7. 7 neil said at 8:14 pm on March 8th, 2007:

    I appreciate it, but you give me way too much credit ;)
    I just draw the stuff in my head.