Musical Variety is the Spice of Life

You've probably heard the old proverb: "Variety is the spice of life." When it comes to music, musical variety is definitely the spice of life! When you expose young children to music from around the world, you expose them to different cultures, countries, ideas and and experiences, along with these developmental benefits:

Greater Language Proficiency-Just as you read a variety of books to expand your child's vocabulary, exposure to a wide variety of music and sounds expands your child's 'ear vocabulary.'

Spacial Awareness-When a child listens to music, her mind perceives the sound in multi-dimensional ways. The sound is loud or soft, fast or slow, high or low, left to right. Eventually they will use that 'awareness of space' to work their body when they walk around the room or play sports.

Temporal Reasoning-You see this skill in action when a preschooler tells a story. He starts with his own experience and then moves to some imagines place with a princess or a superhero then goes back to something real again. Music does the same thing. It goes back and forth between established places (the chorus) and to new places that take you somewhere else (the verse).

Emotional Intelligence-With exposure to a greater variety of musical styles like jazz, folk, or classical, this increased exposure to music increases a child's awareness, and understanding of different moods and emotions.

Cognitive Skills- Research shows that music contributes to the development of a child's ability to reason, his sense of patterning, and his memory skills.

As always you are invited to attend any of my classes for free to check it out! Just let me know you are coming!