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AZN,

Does it go against your comfort level to put your profile on a music teacher director site - I joined 2-3 (most were free, I believe, or less than $100 per year, not quite remembering, and for the past 18 months, I have been getting contacts monthly from my immediate area.

We moved 21 months ago and only 5 students were able to make the distance and time to my new home, so I have had building going on in the last year.

I get far more inquiries from Learning Musician or Lesson Portal or GetLessonsNow than I do from my local music store which has lost it's flavor with piano teachers due to management changes and poor service and music materials on hand. Their biggest business now is the school instrument rentals and guitars. Piano Music has been relagated to smaller and smaller corner. I've been shopping there since the early 1980's.

The good news is that a long established Tacoma music store "Ted Brown Music" is coming to South Hill Puyallup by September, and within 30 blocks of my residence. Wow, am I excited!

Betty

Yes, I do... and my children aren't enrolled on those teams. Here in my city, for example, we have a "competitive" soccer league that has a grueling practice schedule and many games in other cities that require long drives. We also have a league at the Y with the philosophy that "every child plays," and it's quite laid back, once a week practices, once a week games. (They don't even keep score until the kids are 10 years old.) My kids play with the Y.

I want my children to have a balanced, relatively unstressed life and wouldn't endorse them being involved in ANY activity (including piano, gasp) that would occupy the bulk of their free time.

That's comforting, but of course, Monica, you know that vast majority of parents do not.