Musical Parenting Tip:  Help your toddler discover sounds (speech & instrumental).
Why?
·      Auditory discrimination allows us to notice and compare distinct and separate sounds in speech, as well as the unique timbre of individual instruments and instrument families.
·      Auditory discrimination is an important pre-reading skill.
·      Auditory discrimination is also an important part of learning to sort and listen for specific sounds within a field of sounds such as hearing mommy say, ‘stop!’ amidst the background noise of a busy parking lot.
How?
·      Check out the ‘I Hear a Sound’ game
·      Discover different sounds around your house, yard, and neighborhood. Make a Today Book, to record your child’s ‘sound detective’ journey!
·      Cue up a favorite track from your Marvelous Me home album, and use instruments or found sounds to play along to the steady beat.
Want to learn more?
On our blog – read Kindermusik and your child:  Exercising your listening muscles.
Also – Put on your listening ears!