Mental health thread

[Slutty Rimmer]

Originally Posted by Lisal

Sure

Anything that helps is good. My concern is that - in this thread anyway - there seems to be a concentration on one thing (at a time to be fair) when I personally believe we should be thinking in broader terms

AIUI music is compulsory on the national curriculum for kids age 5-14. Not in academies but they are “expected” to teach it. Now that may not be to the level discussed earlier but it it still means that an awful lot of children do get access to the subject in schools

Plus, of course, there is outside school where there is a heck of a choice of music which children listen to

It just feels to me that music is fairly well covered already.

Not really. Music is often paid lip service in the curriculum and is too easily squeezed in budgets.

I’m talking about the emotional and psychological reward gained from playing a musical instrument not just being ‘taught’ to appreciate listening to different styles of music. To learn and fully enjoy an instrument requires owning and permanently having that instrument, and often the interest is not initially there until child-instrument-lesson come together when the mood suddenly takes at the right time. YouTube has some great free tutorial series* and so really just the musical instrument needs supplying for free.

Agreed though, it is not a panacea (nothing is) but it is a sanctuary for life once realised. Good for the soul, even more so when playing and interacting.

Kind Regards,
Rimmer.

* Just add guitar and child then let it grow…

https://youtube.com/@justinguitar?si=4fsnKydOpjBhrzOr

https://youtube.com/@andycrowley?si=0dVMtpHkejXHSXgf