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When I was a kid, I liked trying new things. I knew nothing about pottery, but I convinced my mom to buy me a pottery wheel kit. Despite being apprehensive, I started doing acrobatics. It’s not that I was fearless, I simply understood my skill set and found activities that fit inside them without prior experience. That’s why seeing a little girl decide she’s going to learn piano in two days for her school talent show brings me so much joy.
I love to see a kid who believes in themself enough to do something hard. And I’m not the only one; the girl went viral on TikTok as her mom documented her progress.
No one was more surprised than her mom.
Mom Stephanie shared a video of her daughter proudly marching through her garage, dad in tow, carrying a piano keyboard with a bemused look on his face.
“POV: Our daughter came home from school and told us she entered the talent show for playing piano,” she wrote on the video. “She’s never played piano in her life,” she added.
The mom can be seen and heard laughing to the point where she becomes red faced. “Man, I haven’t laughed this hard in a while,” she captioned the video. She added that she loves parenting with her “green-flag husband” just because of moments like this.
“This is the type of confidence I aspire for myself,” the official TikTok account for the band KISS replied.
The girl had to learn piano in only a few days.
Mom explained that her daughter only had 48 hours to learn how to play the instrument before her talent show video submission was due.
In her next video, Stephanie showed her daughter learning to play the theme song to the show ‘Bluey,’ gently plunking out the melody on the keys. Both Stephanie and her husband are encouraging the girl, advising her to “slow down” and “start over” when she makes a mistake.
“Its been 24 hours since she came home from school and told us she’ll be playing an instrument she’s never played in the talent show 🤣 surprised us all and is actually picking it up fast,” the caption read.
Again, there were hundreds of comments from people encouraging the mini virtuoso for her efforts.
“She said ‘you know what, I think I’d be good at that’, and she was right,” one person wrote.
“I’ve never been prouder of a stranger before!” someone else added.
Her audition video really is the cutest thing you’ll see today.
After sharing that the audition video had been submitted, Stephanie treated us to viewing it too. And it’s amazing to see that her girl really did learn piano in two days. I am beyond impressed!
“My name is Mackenzie, and I’ll be playing the ‘Bluey’ theme song,” she says confidently before playing. Despite a few little hiccups, she absolutely nailed it! People couldn’t help but heap on the praise.
“I know a queen when I see one, she setup a goal and definitely accomplished it,” one commenter wrote.
“No it’s okay, I planned on sobbing to the bluey song today anyway,” another commenter wrote.
Someone else added, “This is so cute!! She did a great job. And good on you parents for figuring out and encouraging her!”
