Pre Schooling | Home Schooling

Pardon us while we climb out of this generation gap we fell into recently. It may take us a while – there’s nothing that can make you feel so old as realizing your youngest child has come to a point of mature judgment in life. Here’s how it happened to us.

A few months back he started taking guitar lessons. And to his parents’ amazement, the kid was actually good at it! What’s more, he stuck to his lessons and the accompanying practice like peanut butter to the roof of your mouth.

By the time school rolled around again in the fall, our son’s diligence had so impressed his father that dear old Dad decided the boy deserved his own guitar (he’d been borrowing one from his teacher). Knowing nothing about guitars, Dad began perusing auction sites and music vendors online looking for a good electric guitar for sale. Unfortunately, not only did Dad not know a good guitar when he saw one, most of the ads he found wanted a small fortune for a whole guitar kit.

We tried to keep it a secret from our son, but you know 15-year-old ears. You can be screaming at the top of your lungs and a 15-year-old won’t hear a word you shout. But try whispering a conversation at the kitchen table over coffee, and the next thing you know he’s dancing around the kitchen singing, ‘I’m getting a guitar! I’m getting a guitar!’

We finally got him to calm down long enough to talk things over with us. After all, there was no more reason to keep the conversation secret. His dad began by setting ground rules: Son had to maintain his grades, do his chores, and most of all, justify the investment by keeping up with his lessons and rehearsals. Naturally our budding guitarist readily agreed to every condition.

Then Dad asked what kind of rock guitar our son wanted, with the understanding that it might be a while before we could get up the cost. That’s the point at which we got the shock.

Our son turned very serious and explained that he’d been learning classical guitar, so he wanted to start out with an electric guitar that was suited for classic playing. He mentioned several models his teacher had recommended, such as a takamine acoustic electric guitar.

Or maybe, he said after a moment’s thought, we ought to get an ibanez acoustic electric guitar.

We were stunned. For all that we expected him to be influenced by rock music culture, he’d chosen for himself to study the classics.

Yes, friends, there’s still a generation gap, and we fell right into it. See you when we climb back out.

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