<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'> <div>Stop talking to the parent. Don't answer questions, but watch the kid play. When the parent asks a question, or says something, just say. "I'm listening to your child play and don't want to interrupt him/her".  </div> <div> </div> <div>Wim</div> <div></div> <div style="clear: both;"> <div> </div> </div> <div></div> <div></div> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">-----Original Message-----<br> From: David Nereson <da88ve@gmail.com><br> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Fri, Jan 4, 2013 3:52 pm<br> Subject: Re: [pianotech] undisciplined kids<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_1_4756b542-a2e7-4d30-b778-70105b6b45ce"> I like the idea of closing the fallboard, except that I've usually already removed it to inspect condition of punchings, tightness of bushings, balance holes, amount of dust, etc.  <br>     --David Nereson, RPT<br> <br> <div class="gmail_quote"> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Susan Kline <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skline@peak.org">skline@peak.org</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;" class="gmail_quote"> <u></u> <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">That's good, Rob, or sometimes I just tell the kid "you can play after I leave, but not now." <br> <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"> <br> Susan Kline<br> </font></span></font> <div> <div class="h5"><br> Rob McCall wrote: <blockquote type="cite"> Being a parent myself, I have a real hard time just letting them bang away.  I usually tell them to watch their fingers!  And then I close the fallboard.  Then I stand there with my hand on top of it as I talk to the parent.  It works almost every time.  And the parents get the idea real quick.  Yeah, I could probably be more PC, but I just don't have it in me.  :-) It's like I'm on auto-parent mode.  It just happens... <div><br> </div> <div> <div><span style="font:/normal Optima; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; border-collapse: separate;"><span style="font:/normal Optima; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; border-collapse: separate;"> <div><span style="font:/normal Optima; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; border-collapse: separate;"> <div><span style="font:/normal Optima; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; border-collapse: separate;"> <div><span style="font:/normal Optima; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; border-collapse: separate;"> <div><span style="font:/normal Optima; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; border-collapse: separate;"> <div>Regards,</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Rob McCall</div> <div><br> </div> <div>McCall Piano Service, LLC<br> <a href="http://www.mccallpiano.com" target="_blank">www.mccallpiano.com</a></div> <div>Murrieta, CA</div> <div>951-698-1875<br> </div> </span></div> </span></div> </span></div> </span></div> </span></span></div> <br> <div> <div>On Jan 04, 2013, at 14:40 , paul bruesch <<a href="mailto:paul@bruesch.net">paul@bruesch.net</a>> wrote:</div> <br> <blockquote type="cite"><span style="font:/normal Optima; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal;">Depending on my mood at the moment, I would probably calmly ask the kid to please play quietly so I can think. The kid is doing what kids do, given the opportunity. But by asking the kid to play quietly, you're not angrily saying to quit making all that noise, you're just asking for some respect, which the parents apparently have not taught and do not expect, and most kids (in my experience) respond well to that.</span> <div style="font:/normal Optima; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal;"> <br> </div> <div style="font:/normal Optima; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal;"> Paul Bruesch</div> <div style="font:/normal Optima; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal;"> Stillwater, MN</div> </blockquote> </div> <br> </div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> <br> </div>  </div> </font>