(In Bean's case, violin practice and a bully named Tanisha provide plenty cause for alarm).
Bill explained that it was Leonard, the joiner who made the heavy doors, undertaking his hour's violin practice.
He didn't have summer camp, swimming lessons, soccer league, violin practice, a Mandarin tutor or anything that could even remotely be called an "enrichment activity".
It comes off a bedrock of a lot of violin practice, however - Bittová says she isn't keen to make another film as it distracts her from playing.
He has rock climbing and swimming team sessions twice a week as well as daily violin practice, so there's a lot to cover with him alone!
Raised in a Los Angeles household of opera music, violin practice, and no television, she was immersed in classical culture growing up.
"We are equipping them for something much greater than playing a stringed instrument," Ms. Nalden said, standing outside her one-story brick school as the sounds of violin practice rose above the street noise.
VIOLIN PRACTICE We waited until literally a couple of months ago to start my daughter with violin lessons, and I guess in a way we were overcompensating with not wanting to push it, but she definitely came to it on her own.
Iyengar's teachings had a profound effect on him; in a 1953 Life magazine story called "Yehudi's Yoga," he said that yoga had led to a breakthrough in his art, and was even more important to him than violin practice.
He has more time for reading, he notes philosophically, and for music Bach, Beethoven, a new-born interest in Mahler and, occasionally, some violin practice.But being Mr Kohl's "crown prince", with a general election less than seven months away, makes it hard to relax.
