Just keep reading. It gets better:
My older boy is also taking a few online music classes in his two non-dominant languages. (My kids are trilingual and I always look for ways to increase their non-dominant language exposure.)
My older boy is also taking a few online music classes in his two non-dominant languages. (My kids are trilingual and I always look for ways to increase their non-dominant language exposure.)
(I am not the author, my family member is. I find the comments about bragging just silly. It's a lot of work to keep the family connections across cultures and languages).
Don't know what to tell you, other than that the whole piece just reeks of compulsive status signalling. And why would one throw their "just look at our little prodigies-in-bloom" story up on the internet -- except to have people comment on it? Or is it only fawning and applauding comments they were expecting?
- Tiger parenting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_parenting
some cultures expect status signaling, a parent who does not do it is thought to be ashamed of the kids, and so the kids must not be very good. Some other cultures use it as a "language of love" to their children, encouraging them further. Some other cultures don't speak positively or much at all (ever hear about the old Swedish farmer who loved his wife soooo much he almost told her?) And even in those cultures there is a way to express pride or not express it, it's calibration.
Culture needs translation just like language. You can still read between the lines of the pride and learn something about what the parent is doing and how it's working. We don't have to like everybody we work with, everybody who teaches us, etc. in order to learn from them.
When people share stories like that they don't necessary expect applause or criticism. Honestly it's not your place to express it and against the site guidelines as well. If you want to learn about commenting just read what most of others have done in this thread - they commented about the topic at hand which is perfect pitch, early exposure to music and various ways to approach it.
I certainly have learnt something from those and got to read some interesting related stories.
Obviously not, and I don't see how what I said could be read that way.
It's taking the trouble to write stuff like the original article (in such gushing, self-congratulatory tones) and throwing it up on the internet that reeks of you-know-what.
Especially since these don't sound like self-driven accomplishments on the part of these kids. Or even remotely near it.
We already live in a modern world. I have seen probably more culture from a lot more countries than anyone before us all.
It really takes time and energy to get culture. Culture is not just a few family traditions or a little bit of food.
Besides, i do think culture became much more generic the last 30 years due to how we are now connected. Everyone has coca cola (which is ridiculous), everyone ewars colorful tshirts from adidas and all the other brands we know. We took culture and mangeld it in sending cheap old cloth to other countries, exporting everything and stop embracing local things.
And even if you do, sometimes you see how those local people cook (in which conditions) and than you are happy about the generic imported coca cola because they never heard of hygene.
There was a Youtube Video were someone interviewed people in germany / munich and asked them how living here changed them. And thats very interesting culture wise: They said things which were very german like 'no longer talking to anyone on the street just for fun' or being more on time etc. I bet this cultural trades took much more than just a few weeks to get ingrained.
Those poor parents, maybe on their next child - if they do raise them properly, that child will be able to speak 5 or 6 languages.