How a music education
can benefit your child?
There
are countless ways in which music can enhance our lives, and volumes of
research to support this claim!
A
More Humane Human
As
individuals and children study and participate in music, awareness grows,
appreciation is cultivated, sensitivity is nurtured, self-esteem thrives,
creativity and expressiveness flourish, and an aesthetic sense develops. People with these qualities are
generally happier individuals, as well as a benefit to others and to society in
general.
Skills
and Abilities
Aside
from producing a well-rounded human being, researchers, teachers and parents
are discovering the overall difference music can make. Music offers enhanced brain
functioning, decreased learning and discipline problems, better social skills,
and superior communication skills.
Music is becoming more than just a goal for many educators; it is
actually becoming a means to achieve all of these benefits!
Developing
the Mind
Music
promotes cognitive development as well as abstract thought. This includes topics such as reading,
math, and even creative thinking.
Music instruction enhances the brain’s ‘hard-wiring’ for
spatial-temporal reasoning, or the brain’s ability to visualize and transform
objects in time and space.
Spatial-temporal skills are foundational for higher-level math
skills. (MIND Institute) Music education has also been shown to
facilitate the ability to read.
Exposure to music can actually rewire neural circuits in the brain for
more interconnected functioning.
(Newsweek, 1996)
Starting
Now
Let’s
Play Music takes advantage of “windows” of learning, when childrens minds are
most capable of absorbing information.
As children are introduced to complex musical concepts they not only
develop high musical aptitudes, but high mental capacities as well!
