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Awesome, yet REALLY CREEPY at the same time.

WOW that was creepy. The synchronized head movements and turning to face each other... Just... wow, weird. Sounded good though! I wonder how long they've been practicing that haha
 
OK, ah, well,

At that age i could not get my kids to even get away from the tv long enough to look at a guitar
 
Just think how many hours it would take to get five kids to learn this stuff, especially considering how inattentive little ones can be. Seeing this makes me feel a little sad--at this age, a kid deserves to spend their time thinking freely and running around outside, rather than being forced into something at such an early age. The only thing my little girl knows is that daddy lets her play with the knobs and switches on his guitar when he's playing. If she decides to pursue an instrument, I will show her that learning the guitar makes more logical sense in the long run, as you never really see anyone bring their flute or tuba to a campfire all too often.
 
those kids scare the crap out of me.

also, I have known a Casual flautist.

When we camped with him, he'd more or less improvise the most haunting melodies. scary and/or sad songs.

it being a flute made it all the more surreal.
 
Mommy and daddy are hoping for an early retirement.... in America, we counter with Jessica Simpson's dad and Lindsay Lohan's mom.  :help:
 
You can never start too early!!!

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Mark, one of the funniest post I have ever saw

and OH, is that baby mouth froth all over the bottom of that Axe?
 
I went to elementary, junior high, and high school in schools that were approximately 60-70% Asian.  When I see things like this, I am never surprised.  In many of those cultures, it is the norm to ride your kids as hard as you can until they achieve the results you want in school, music, sports, or whatever.  I don't think any race is naturally smarter or more disciplined than any other, but if it is the cultural norm to enforce very high standards from an early age, you will be able to produce toddlers who play like that.  I think it all comes from the fact that a lot of those countries are pretty crowded, and the competition for jobs is more intense than it is here.

I say this not to try to enforce stereotypes, I knew a lot of Asian kids that were allowed to have what the Western world would consider a normal upbringing.  But man, some of them had some pretty old-school parents with very strong opinions about what their kids should be allowed to do, and some of those kids had no lives outside of family functions, church, and school.  I remember one kid lived near my best friend, and we tried to get her to come out and play on a number of occasions, and she told us she couldn't because she had so much work to do, and that her mom would hit her with a tennis racket if she didn't get it done by a certain time.

It was interesting to spend 1st -12th grade with the same group of people, because I saw how that type of parenting could go either way.  I would say about 1/4 of them ended up going to Ivy League-type schools, 1/2 were average, and 1/4 completely rebelled and wanted to be crazy gangsters.  But a lot of them, even the scholastically successful ones, really resented their parents.
 
I wanted to stop watching after like 30 seconds cause it freaked me out, but I had to watch the whole thing :laughing7:
 
This sort of thing kinda depresses me. Asian culture just seems to be becoming more and more competitive and mechanized. The kids are held to such high standards when they should really be just being goofy, silly, mischieveious kids. I watched a special on television about what the kids on the Chinese gymnastics team have to go through just to make the squad. I had to stop watching halfway through because it was just so sad seeing the youthful joy sucked out of these kids because their parents so desperately want their children to be superstars. I can only imagine how much these kids had to go through.
 
I guess I'm the only one who doesn't think it's creepy, but then again, everyone told me the scene from "The Ring" when the chick crawled out of the TV was absolutely horrifying and creepy, too, while I found it to be nothing short of...lame.  :icon_scratch:
 
While I agree about the Asian cultures and the type of parenting, those kids are quite talented and I enjoyed the video.  The kids were smiling.  Hopefully that wasn't just a front to keep from getting hit by a tennis racket!
 
Torment Leaves Scars said:
I guess I'm the only one who doesn't think it's creepy, but then again, everyone told me the scene from "The Ring" when the chick crawled out of the TV was absolutely horrifying and creepy, too, while I found it to be nothing short of...lame.   :icon_scratch:

I remember not being scared at all because I was too busy going "Whoa, cool special effects!"  The movie was dumb though. 
 
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