When my wife's daughters were little girls, she would keep them from fighting each other in the car by making them sing. Not only did they learn to sing well, they learned to sing in harmony. Eventually both of them sang in the choirs at school and at church, and were pretty good at. E, the younger one, even continued to sing in the elite choir in high school and was in a few musicals at school; recently she was in a musical review at church.
Today the worshippers attending the contemporary service at church got to reap the benefits of a seed sown by my wife some 20 years ago. In what our worship leader called a sister act, our grown-up daughters sang a couple of duets during the service. It was a quite a blessing! We've known that E has a pretty good singing voice because we heard her recently. And so does J! (we just haven't heard her because she hasn't been involved in music for quite a few years).
What's really amazing is that we didn't do or say anything to encourage this - they came up with it on their own. I think our worship leader (who's known the girls since they were little) said it best for all of us when he said this was a blessing that was long in coming.
So the moral of the story here is that it's okay to make your kids do stuff - someday it just might pay off.
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