You can help your child during practice time at home with his/her instrument position.  This checklist is to help the students develop good posture while playing.  If good posture is developed then it will be much easier to play and produce a good tone.  There are many excellent pictures in the lesson book to help you acquire excellent position.
 
INSTRUMENT HOLD/POSTURE
 
______Sitting/standing properly
 
______Instrument positioned correctly on body
 
______Instrument properly supported
 
BOW HAND
 
______Thumb placement
 
______Thumb bent
 
______All fingers placed correctly
 
______Fingers over the frog
 
______Pinky curved
 
LEFT HAND POSITION
 
______Fingers properly curved
 
______Thumb placement
 
______No squeezing the neck
 
______Wrist properly aligned