What help do I need? Where can I get it?

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I have three children (7, 5 and 3). 7 and 5 do piano, singing and recorder (they are happy with this - regularly asked if they want to keep going. They do).

The issue I have is that they both need - particularly the 5 yo - assistance/supervision with their practice. I am capable of doing it but work full time and it is not usually possible for us to do it every day. Our nanny is not able to (or at least says she is not and tbf doing anything that focusses on one of them with the other two there is fraught at the best of times). Husband works away a lot so can't be consistent with them.

I contemplated trying to get an older teenager at the local school (10 minute walk away) to come for an hour 4 nights a week to supervise music practice (half an hour each). No childcare - our nanny would be in the house at all times. Due to our jobs all adults are DBS checked. I contacted the school and asked if they knew of anyone who might be interested, and also put it on local facebook pages.

No one was interested. I still need some help to get them going with some consistency. Can anyone suggest what I need (other than a different nanny/job/husband/children. At present not prepared to change any of those). TIA

Just let them trickle along with lessons for now and when they are ready to you can ramp it up a bit?

Ask the teacher to give them practice they can manage without supervision?

2x music lessons each does seem like quite a lot for their ages, they are quite young. But anyway, my 7 year old does piano. I find when she has new pieces, I need to be with her the first couple of times, but then after that I can just tell her to go and practice and listen while I'm making dinner or whatever. There are other times when she refuses to practice and in any case I don't expect her to practice everyday as she is quite busy (has after school club or extracurriculars every weekday, plus stuff on Saturdays).

So I guess I would advise to go through things with them one or two times at the beginning of the week and then ask the nanny to remind them to practice for the remainder of the week. Having a routine where they do it at the same time everyday would help too. For examples straight after breakfast or dinner could work as they aren't otherwise absorbed in whatever they are doing.

Mine aim for 10 minutes practise every other day/3 times a week, which is what their piano teacher recommends. Half hour and almost every day feels too much at their ages, mine couldn't fit that in anyway as they do a lot of extra sport too.

Same as other poster, I find I need to do it with them at beginning of the week but they are then fine on their own after that, so I spend 10-15 mins with one first night including doing their theory tasks, then the other the next night, whilst they are getting ready for bed. Then they are left to it with some nudges to practise the rest of the week.