Michelle Siteman has a BA from the University of Chicago and a master's degree from Yale University. She has thirty years of experience teaching at the grade school, high school and college levels, and she currently coaches and trains new teachers at colleges in southern California. A music lover and the mother of three grown children, Ms. Siteman writes of the rewards and challenges of raising a musical child with the clarity and insight of a teacher and with the heart of a mother. Jonathan, the youngest of her children, is well on his way to a career in classical music.