The research about music and children’s development is truly stunning. More and more, the eyes of the research community turn to music as a vehicle to deliver a learning experience to children.
The bottom line: early, positive, and age-appropriate experiences with music programs —can have a remarkable and research-proven impact on your child’s:
* language and literacy skills (vocabulary, comprehension, listening, expression)
* social and emotional development
* mathematics and pattern-recognition skills
* ability to plan, guide, and self-regulate their behavior
* Musically-trained people perform better on general intelligence tests (higher IQs)
So WHY?
Because music lessons train kids:
• focus attention for long periods of time
• decode a complex symbolic system (musical notation)
• translate the code into precise motor patterns
• recognize patterns of sound across time
• learn rules of pattern formation
• memorize long passages of music
• understand ratios and fractions (e.g., a quarter note is half as long as a half note)
• improvise within a set of musical rules
WHAT TO DO ? What classes to attend ? What tools and material would help ? What more resources to read about the topic ? How to custom-make your program according to your kid age and interests? More on details is coming up !
Whether Music is introduced to a kid's life in a form of Classes or instrument-playing learning, the positive effects are the same. Just choose what your kid will enjoy best.
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