Babies who are just discovering the world love music, singing, and dancing. Even if the singing or dancing mother is not very musical, they enjoy listening and watching her. A good mood is transmitted to them.
How music affects children
Children love it when parents sing along with them, no matter how they do it. Unfortunately, fewer and fewer families are singing and dancing with their little ones. However, music is not only useful because it is a source of energy for children’s brains. Children who sing regularly have an easier time learning, studies have shown. Singing promotes language acquisition and logical-mathematical understanding, makes you happy, and helps reduce aggression.
Children are born with a charge of musicality. This potential must necessarily be encouraged: singing together, as a daily ritual, with parents and in kindergarten is an irreplaceable and useful life experience. It has not only a musical impact.
Music improves social behavior.
Sociologists claim that singing and listening to music together, for example, has a positive effect on family cohesion. Parents notice an improvement in children’s social behavior, and the relationship between children and parents becomes closer. It does not matter if both hit the right notes or know nothing about the composer. Rather, perception, eye contact, joint movements and, above all, enjoyment of the music are at work.
Classical as a bridge between generations
Babies under a year old already respond to music. They look up to their parents and learn by watching, imitating, and repeating endlessly. For parents and grandparents, it’s a treasure chest of sorts, full of ideas for everyday life. For example, a morning song when dressing your baby positively sets them up for their day in kindergarten. Classic children’s songs should also be part of the repertoire. They are preserved and passed down from generation to generation, thus resembling bridges between generations.
Integrating Music into Everyday Life
Music should be played in the house as often as possible, whether it’s classical, rock or pop that parents like. Tact is beaten to anything that might remind you of a drum, plus baby rattles or rattles can be used as maracas.
Parents can train their children’s fine hearing by talking to them about what they’ve heard: do they like the music? How does it feel – light or heavy? What do children hear – roar, thunder, or hum?
Plus, children can be taken to concerts from an early age.
Taking your offspring to a concert
You can listen to “live” music in philharmonic societies, concert halls or simply on the street. The main condition is that it was not a synthesizer. The condition is that children themselves must understand and distinguish between different types of music, vocals and instruments.
Too loud music through amplifiers or loudspeakers can be dangerous for children’s hearing, so parents should protect children’s ears if they take them to concerts, such as rock performers.
Instrument? Only by choice!
Speaking of an instrument, psychologists and music teachers emphasize that the best way for parents is to be guided by their kids’ wishes. The child himself should choose the instrument he likes. And this is not always the same as the parents’ wishes.
When is the first time to take your baby to a teacher? This is very individual. But before the age of three years experts do not recommend doing it.