EN
Effective shaping of musical attitudes is very often hindered by a lack of knowledge about the musical development of children and young people. Young learners are forced to sing songs not suitable for their voice scale and songs which are rhythmically and harmonically complicated and with wrong texts. A common mistake is encouraging students to imitate adults, singing with exaggerated expression, changing into screams, and performing exercises beyond their performing abilities. The main objective of teachers should be shaping the students’ positive attitude to music. According to the medical principle “primum non nocere”, every music education teacher should have at least some elementary knowledge about the process of students’ musical development.