Musical Parenting Tip: Explore instruments and sounds with your child.
 
Why?
  • Awareness of specific sounds (‘timbre’) is the musical equivalent of phonemic awareness (the sounds of language), and it is developed through experience and exposure to many different musical sounds.
  • Exposure to a variety of sounds & rhythms is critical to intellectual development – leading to language proficiency, spatial reasoning, and temporal reasoning.  It also increases understanding of moods and emotions.
  • The ability to isolate and focus on individual sounds will become invaluable when your child needs to listen for your voice on a noisy playground, or focus on a teacher’s voice in a busy classroom.
  • Singing the ‘instruments away’ song, after exploring, is a great motivator for your child to help with clean-up – and can make great parenting easier!
How?
  • Start with listening to all of these different bells!
  • Read our e-book, Where is Bear? With your child.  Can you add instruments & other sounds as clues to where bear is, with each page turn?
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