title: The Music Parents' Survival Guide: A Parent-to-Parent Conversation
author:  Amy Nathan 
description: <br>"Where can the dedicated, but slightly frantic, music parent turn for advice? Enter Amy Nathan, a writer and music parent who wants to help...Harried parents will find plenty of insight here." -Megan Westberg, <em>Strings Magazine</em> <br> <br>
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  > For my mother and her mother
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  PART I
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  1
  
  When Laura was sixteen she wrote a perfect song. It was the first song she’d
  ever written, so she didn’t understand how hard it was to write even an okay
  song, or how hard it was to make anything new, in general. She still thought,
  then, that making something was primarily a way to have fun. She didn’t know
  that the song was perfect, just that it was as good as anythi