Make Parents a First-Class Audience

Capture

Parents are routinely asked to help with:

• tuning;
• setup;
• reminders;
• instrument care;
• practice emotion;
• teacher instructions;
• scheduling;
• rehearsal preparation.

They often care deeply but lack violin-specific knowledge.

Parents helping children are not secondary users. Their needs shape the architecture.

Why

A parent may:

• not know how to hold the violin;
• not know what normal looks like;
• be stressed;
• be under time pressure;
• be reacting to a distressed child;
• unintentionally create damage by trying to help.

Why-Not

The rejected path would make make Parents a First-Class Audience too easy to treat as an implementation detail instead of a public boundary. The ADR preserves the tradeoff explicitly so later product work cannot silently widen authority.

Commit

Decision: Parents helping children are not secondary users. Their needs shape the architecture.

• scene stabilization matters;
• protected point of view matters;
• exact “do not touch” boundaries matter;
• teacher communication matters;
• the product must assume low domain familiarity.

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Confidence: Medium-high for public architecture; implementation details remain private and subject to launch evidence.

Timestamp

2026-07-17