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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 420208" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>While his mom is in his life, he is patterning himself on her, emulating her behaviour. Hero worship. It is possible the narcissism you see is merely him copying; or it could be more. But he's still "not cooked" yet, there is time.</p><p></p><p>With getting through to him - I speak form experience with difficult child 3, he needs his medications or nothing will sink in. His ability to even think or mentally multi-task will be minimal. </p><p></p><p>Musical alternatives - piano. Or a computer software package that allows him to sample sounds and put them together into a new composition. Or some other instrument such as flute or recorder. Suggest to him that strings is good, but to be a well-rounded musician he needs to UNDERSTAND music and how it fits together. There are some good music software packages. But if you don't want him near a computer, I suggest flute. He would have to learn fingering, patience (in getting the sound right) and would not be able to sing along. Learning flute fingering would also open doors to other woodwind instruments. </p><p></p><p>If computer access is OK, then a computer package that allows sampling would be interesting for him to work with. Samples of crowd noise for example, mixed with samples of trains, buses etc could be put to a rhythm and be developed as a sort of "beat of the city". It would also make him listen to the world around him and how it sounds, which could begin to help combat the narcissism.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 420208, member: 1991"] While his mom is in his life, he is patterning himself on her, emulating her behaviour. Hero worship. It is possible the narcissism you see is merely him copying; or it could be more. But he's still "not cooked" yet, there is time. With getting through to him - I speak form experience with difficult child 3, he needs his medications or nothing will sink in. His ability to even think or mentally multi-task will be minimal. Musical alternatives - piano. Or a computer software package that allows him to sample sounds and put them together into a new composition. Or some other instrument such as flute or recorder. Suggest to him that strings is good, but to be a well-rounded musician he needs to UNDERSTAND music and how it fits together. There are some good music software packages. But if you don't want him near a computer, I suggest flute. He would have to learn fingering, patience (in getting the sound right) and would not be able to sing along. Learning flute fingering would also open doors to other woodwind instruments. If computer access is OK, then a computer package that allows sampling would be interesting for him to work with. Samples of crowd noise for example, mixed with samples of trains, buses etc could be put to a rhythm and be developed as a sort of "beat of the city". It would also make him listen to the world around him and how it sounds, which could begin to help combat the narcissism. Marg [/QUOTE]
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