Music Can Change A Child's Life

​Music has been found to stimulate every aspect of the developing brain.  Since music is an art and a science, it can be used as a medium to teach concepts and principles through academic, physical, spiritual and social realm.  Music has the power to engage, relax and energize. 

Exposure to music provides a natural and healthy opportunity for individual expression while encouraging the development of the whole child by enhancing cognitive skills.  In other words, music benefits your child by making them smarter in the following areas:

• Music enhances the development of speech.  The singing of nursery rhymes and songs teaches your child how language is constructed.

 

• Music helps children comprehend math principles and concepts. Every measure in music is a mathematical equation because the beat in the measure equal the time signature.  When children learn music, they are incorporating principles of addition.

 

• Music increases social and motor skills.  Studies link early music exposure to improved motor skills and social abilities.  Hands-on participation in music of children between ages of three and ten assist them with their eye-hand coordination and social interaction.

 

• Music stimulates your child’s intellectual development.  Children improve their abilities to work mazes, copy patterns of color, and draw geometric figures.  These skills reflect spatial intelligence which is the foundation for more complex types of reasoning such as those used in math and science.

 
The effect that music has on the overall enrichment of a child’s life is insurmountable.  There are countless examples of renowned scientists, mathematicians, statesmen and musicians’ whose lives were interwoven with music.  Listed below are a few:

• Pythagoras – Greek Philosopher/Mathematician/Musician
• Albert Einstein – Physicist/Violinist
• Werner Von Braun – Rocket Scientist/Pianist and Cellist
• Peter Tchaikovsky – Composer/Mathematician
• Alexander Borodin – Composer/Chemist
• Thomas Jefferson – President of the United States/ Author of the Declaration of Independence/Violinist
• Condoleezza Rice- Secretary of State of the United States/ Pianist
• Harry Truman – President of the United States/Pianist
• Paul Allen – Co-founder of Microsoft/ Guitarist
• Stephen King – Novelist/Guitarist

 
Children who study music are not necessarily your next Mozart but many will become your next generation of physicians, mathematicians and engineers. 

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