Our minds seek the information that keeps our families functioning and nimble in this time of change. While finding time to read or listen to the news used to feel like a routine civic duty, now, getting news requires skills like managing for bias and avoiding targeted disinformation. Some of us need a kind of armored detachment from the daily fusillade of stories to balance for their toll on our minds. Especially as keeping alert and nimble about news can inform personal priorities - work changes/community engagement or ability to travel. Those who prioritize getting rest, nourished and who figure ways to express gratitude (whatever ways fit your community/family) will feel resilient.
Our studio gives families a tangible way to gain skills that build character (and good music). These skills amplify resilience in very young children too! Suzuki families score big on empathy, earnest diligent effort when facing difficulty and knowing how to break up huge tasks into their smallest parts. Music is a language that knows no political border, and in fact bridges borders. Music stays with you and your children long into their adult lives and confers skills and intuition which scientific scholars with lofty biology credentials have described eloquently (NYT February 2026) to further pique your curiosity.
Let music be a tonic! Let piano give you and your kids a source of resilience alongside the expected joys, laughter and straight up entertainment of doing something worthy together.