Beyond Twinkle, Twinkle While reading this article it makes you think what you do when you listen to music as an adult and everything applies the same to you as it does an infant. When you think about all of the songs we listen to daily they impact the way we feel throughout the day; and when you trying to learn something it is so much easier to put it to the music of your favorite song, because everything connects it clicks in your head and makes you feel like this is so easy. Can you imagine as a toddler or baby and that feeling that they get when they realized they have figured it out! They are the happiest little people in the world. Just to know you can do that with just the power of music! Realizing that music is all it takes to get children to connect with the simplest things; the simplest this are what set the foundation for your entire learning experience! When you’re trying to climb a ladder do you start at the stop and work down? No, you have to start with the simplest step first. Music makes the simplest steps possible for Children.
Encouraging Musical Babble
When a Child babbles it is the “cutest” most “sweetest” thing in the world. We are adults just think it is just nothing just spit and sounds but it is actually the beginning of something amazing, they are trying to figure out how to say words and figure out how to use them. When a baby babbles they are trying to figure out the right sound to fit what they are doing not just making noise. When they are babble the song they have heard the past 6 months on the TV they are trying to sing the song don’t just sit and ignore that help them by singing with them. This will encourage them and help them develop their musical and language skills. Who would have though all of this just from songs and baby babbles!