What do we do with a newly discovered 3 year old prodigy?

Question

It's very exciting, my 3 year old little neice just started playing amazing tunes with two hands on the keyboard out of the blue yesterday, even jamming along. She has some amazing talent. How can we develop it? We already knew she had an amazing knack for dancing that was amazing, but now we see she has a gift for music too. What do we do next? I told my sister (her mom) to put a clip on youtube maybe to find out but what's the next step?

Answer 1

do whatever you're doing normally, and let the child develop on her own.

because if you stress the child out in ONE thing like music or dance, then they WIL get stressed and not care about that ONE thing they're good at.

compliment her and project her more towards music, like bringing in music cds, plaything related to music and slowly as the child grows, the ability of music and other things besides, will develop!

GL WITH THIS AND CONGRATS!!

Answer 2

Send her to music school.

Answer 3

How about letting her have fun, giving her access to music, jamming along and not pushing her to the point where any of her musical desire is completely dead. If she wants to do more, she can do more later.

Answer 4

I agree, just continue through life as you normally do.  :-)  I find that as soon as a parent starts "pushing", espeically at this young age...then the interest wears off.  We want them to continue to LOVE the gift.

They may wish to look into getting another piano... There are also, relatively cheap full size keyboards out there.  We have something called Freecycle in this area... some people just want to get rid of their piano...it may be older...it may need to be tuned...but it is an option.  Look into it.  Check your classified...sometimes I see pianos for free or cheap.  The family doesn't need anything fancy.

If they had a piano last year, does that mean one of the parents use to play?  They could teach the child piano themselves as far as they can.

Maybe you family members can get together and purchase a keyboard for the child for her birthday or an xmas gift.

Please, you noticed that her older sister is frusterated...DO NOT let this get out of hand and cause some hatred to grow.  Cut down on all the attention of the 3 year old and up the attention on somethign the older sister can do.  Even it out a little.

Good luck!

Answer 5

Speak to her teachers if she is in preschool as they may know of someone you can contact, scholarships//funding for music classes etc.  Or contact music classes directly and ask about scholarships.

You could always contact local press (if this wouldnt scare her too much) as someone might come forward to help her!

But keep giving her praise and encouragement as whatever you've done is working :)