How Music Benefits Your Child’s Overall Development

Music ignites all faculty of children’s brain and improves their various skills like reading, writing, emotion, etc. Try to make your children learn singing or playing any instrument and expose them to music as much as possible from the very childhood to enjoy the maximum benefits of music. Research, based on the Montessori school-going children show that musical exposure in childhood can accelerate overall brain development, especially that faculty that helps language acquisition and reading skill. Music helps in the coordination of the body and the mind. Music activates every subsystem of the brain, including the structures involved in motivation and emotion.

 

Teachers of primary schools of Montessori City of Industry, CA, say that parents, as well as Montessori experts, can use techniques of music therapy to enhance the children’s development of cognitive, emotional, and physical abilities. To incorporate music and rhythm into kids’ life bring them simple musical instruments, tell them to dance with the rhythm. Play music when your children are doing other activities like arranging their room or helping you with the weekly dusting of the house. You also sing a song and listen to music with them. Encourage them to sing with you. A lullaby or any type of soothing music is a must at bedtime.

 

According to child psychologists, music benefits children in different ways –

 

Listening to music, playing musical instruments like piano, violin, etc. or singing stimulates brain function, and brain workouts improve the structure of the brain, forming a new neural connection. Music also helps the mathematical power of a child. We all know that most of the world's famous mathematicians and scientists not only had a great love for music, but they would also play musical instruments. For example, Einstein was only six years old when her mother arranged a violin lesson for him.

 

Not only academics, but music also ignites the social and emotional development of the child. Children who listen or learn music become soft and empathetic to other living beings and nature.

The rhythm of music compels children as well as adults to dance and move body parts and it helps to improve motor skills. Dancing with music helps to flow different hormones of the body properly. Secretion of adrenalin hormone makes children more energetic.

 

When kids sing a song or play an instrument they have to memorize the words and notes of the music. Continuous exercising and memorizing process ultimately sharpen the memory of the kid.

When children sing a song, they have to utter the new wordings of the song. Attending music classes regularly improve speech development and children learn to read more quickly when they are surrounded by music. Scientists say, uttering words in the time of singing helps to clear pronunciation. Not only that, when they come to know the meaning and usage of the new word from their parents and teacher, it helps to improve their vocabulary.

 

Learning music requires a high level of concentration and regular attending music class automatically enhances the attention and concentration power of a child.

At bedtime, a lullaby or any soft music is a must for your kids. It helps to soothe their nerve and to have a good sleep at night.