"Endgame" Brain,Child
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"Some days he gripes throughout his practice when he has a hard piece to practice; occasionally, he’ll ask me to buy him the sheet music to a song he heard somewhere or sang in school. I buy it and hand it to him without comment, and he learns it for fun. Last Christmas, it was “Frosty the Snowman,” and he played it every day for weeks until we begged him to play something else. He has never asked to quit.
Recently, another mother asked me what my endgame was for Henry’s violin playing. That was the word she used—endgame. I was stymied."