If you asked 100 children at the age of three: Are you a good singer? Can you dance and act and draw nice pictures? I guess at least 99 would say YES!! Ask 100 30-year-olds the same questions and most of them will say no.
What has happened in between?
Many regret that active music or other forms of culture and art play next to no part in their lives and want things to be better for their children. Why? Because singing or playing an instrument or painting or dancing are just good for you, for your soul, for your brain, your social life and more. And they are a great corrective in a world of stress and output. Many of us go jogging or to the gym or whatever plainly because it's good for us, not because we want to win the next olympics, and we try to urge our children to do the same.

So how can we help our kids to sing and play music until they're 90? Just for fun - not for a Grammy.
Answer 1: By doing so ourselves. Children learn by imitating.
Answer 2: By encouraging them and accompanying them in their singing and playing.
Answer 3: By letting them see and hear music that real people enjoy playing. Your local brass band will encourage them more than Britney or Shakira - because they are not real. We'll never be like them so we might just as well not bother trying.

Andrew Bond tries to be a hands on performer for the children. He wants them to be as much part of a concert as he is. Of about 100 concerts a year 80 are solo concerts, just Andrew, his piano and guitar and the audience.

The instruments on his CDs are real ones and as such sometimes not quite perfect. But perfection often smothers real life. And children need the real thing.