I thought the same thing about exposure.
So our daughter was taken to several folk festivals and concerts in her first year. Our friends always commented on how good she was, the perfect little festival goer.
By the time she was 10 she had been to about 10 Auckland Folk Festivals and Wellington Folk Festivals and several Hamilton ones too. She had been to the UK with us, joined in the Padstow Mayday festivities, Helston Furry Day, spent time at folk clubs and festivals there, even met Martin Carthy a few times and the Furies in person after their concert at Redcar FF.
She had piano/keyboard lessons for about a year and when she had a chance to learn an instrument at school she chose........
Drums!
But she didn't attend half the classes and dropped out at the end of her first year.
I bought her a guitar (but I think one of her boyfriends destroyed it) and she's always had access to any of our instruments but showed little interest. She has my Oscar Schmit autoharp at the moment but I don't think it comes out of the case.
She's also into heavy metal music!
But her 5 year old is into anything musical. She especially loves Susan Boyle and will sing along with the CD in my car. Her little guitar is in an open tuning at the moment because her fingers are a bit too small and soft to cope with chords just yet (she only turned 5 a week ago) but that will come.
And when we take her to the session at our local, when the diddley music starts she's up and dancing.
This is the kid I should have had 20 years ago!
Robyn