But your daughter and her friends wouldn’t be loitering. They have lives and probably (just guessing here) don’t have the time or the inclination for loitering. If they were in a mall they’d be shopping, and when they were through shopping they’d move on, most likely to home. Congrats to her.
Thanks - yes you are absolutely correct. I wanted to point out not all young people dislike classical music. I wasted a lot of time as a youth, which I regret. My wife did not - and that’s where our children get their musical genes from. We both make sure that their schoolwork is up to snuff.
Kids crave structure and discipline. They also need real achievement to gain a positive self image. Kids are smart - they know who is good, who is bad, when someone has skill in something, and they compare.
Just telling them “you are special” is at best worthless, at worst, it teaches them that feel-good lies are acceptable, and clouds their judgement.
FWIW a comic strip a few years back tried to turn the tables and accuse deployers of classical music of ethnic stereotyping. A rapper dude bops into a business and asks,
“What it is, ma man? That be Schubert’s “Trout Quintet” you playin’ now?
“Why, uh, yes. You..you like it?
“Right on, dude! Ol’ Franz baby, he my DAWG!!
(Yeah, right)
FWIW a comic strip a few years back tried to turn the tables and accuse deployers of classical music of ethnic stereotyping. A rapper dude bops into a business and asks,
“What it is, ma man? That be Schubert’s “Trout Quintet” you playin’ now?
“Why, uh, yes. You..you like it?
“Right on, dude! Ol’ Franz baby, he my DAWG!!
(Yeah, right)