Musical Parenting Tip: Keep the beat with your child!

Why?
  • Sung, chanted, or played, young children love steady beat (perhaps, due to its
    similarity to the heartbeat baby heard in the womb).
  • Steady beat competency is an important skill for music, but also for other
    activities requiring regularly-paced, repeated motion (like walking, running,
    ball bouncing, bike riding, and using scissors)
  • Steady beat competency has been linked to language, and the
    ability to read.

 


How?
  • Do a lap
    bounce    , with baby! Bouncing, moving, and listening are all ways for him to
    experience, internalize & begin to express steady beat.
  • Exercising baby’s arms & legs to a nursery rhyme, like
    ‘Cackle, Cackle,’ helps her experience the beat.
  • Tap the beat on baby’s body, as you sing or listen.

 

Want to learn more?
On our blog – read The
Importance of Steady Beat.
Also, read 4
Reasons Steady Beat skills Matter in Early Childhood Education.