by Ms Silvia

On April 26th  2025, we had a special parent seminar at SMAHK with Ms Zohara Rotem in Australia live on zoom. Ms Zohara is a famous Suzuki piano teacher trainer who specialised in nurturing parents and teachers. It is such a privilege to have her joined us live and talk to us face to face. 

Ms Zohara shared her insight of the Suzuki triangle between the teacher parent and Student. She ensure the importance of the role of parent, also understands the difficulty and pressure of it. By using Dr Suzuki’ quote “Man is the son of his environment”, she explained how the children sees and listens to their teacher only once or twice a week but every single days with their parents. She emphasised that playing the Suzuki recording to the children daily is one of he most essential part of building the mother tongue music environment. Ms Zohara addressed the problem of over scheduling a child. She explained how it could effect the child’s overall wellbeing physically and psychologically. She urged the parents to reflect on what the most important thing they valued and priorities the schedule around it. Ms Zohara encouraged us to have the courage to listen to our heart and make wise decisions for our children. 

Ms Zohara answered a few questions of our parents. She explained that it is a gradual process how he Suzuki triangle roles changed at different period of learning stage. Parent sits back bit by bit according to the readiness of being independent of the child. Suzuki parent always there supporting their child.