Parents' Music Room is designed to give you, the parent or carer, the information advice and guidance you need to help your child develop their musical abilities to the full.

Homepage
An overview of the site with direct links to the main features.

Your Child
What you need to know and how best to help your child, organised by age.

Learning An Instrument
How to find a teacher, choosing the best instrument for your child, how to recognise when your child is ready to begin and how best to encourage them to practise.

Features
Parents, celebrities and experts share their experience and offer practical help and insights into how they have tackled their children's music development and education.

Parent-To-Parent
Tips, advice and answers to your questions from other parents; plus an opportunity to share what you have learned.

Careers Guide
Find your way through the wide range of career opportunities in music: whether your child is leaving school at sixteen, or plans to study music at the conservatoire. Video interviews with leading musicians and industry figures.

Music Essentials
Music Essentials is designed to help you with any new words you may encounter in this site. It is a guide to commonly-used words, explained in simple language. And our interactive activity Music Sense brings basic concepts are brought to life with sound and visual imagery in an interactive glossary.If your child is learning music in school, or wants to sing or play an instrument, these will help you support them. Neither, however is a substitute for a comprehensive guide to music terminology, a course in music theory, or good teacher.

Resources & Links
A handy guide to the wealth of useful resources available on the internet, plus suggested reading and music education organisations.

Parenting
The place to go if you want to know more about all aspects of parenting.

Help
Everything you need to know if you are new to the net, or to bbc.co.uk.