GROWIE's Preschool Development Corner Series 14

Grow Your Child's Mind With Music

Music has more than just an artistic value to offer children – it can 'grow' your child's mind in many important ways!

The mental and emotional development of children is most crucial during the early years of their lives. Music is one of the many ways by which parents can facilitate this aspect of their growth.

Here are some benefits which music can offer for your child:

Musical training provides positive stimulus to the parts of the brain involved in processing language and reasoning, thereby helping to develop children's reading and listening skills, and concentration ability;
Music is an excellent means for self-expression, and fosters creativity and imagination;
Music lowers heart rates and blood pressure and helps us to relax;
Your child will learn to appreciate music as an art form, and be able to differentiate good work from mediocre after a good degree of exposure to craftsmanship;
Practice, performances, and examinations will help build discipline and self-confidence;
Group music lessons will help to build cohesiveness, which is important for sound social development; and
In order to learn a musical instrument successfully, your child will need to cultivate the values of patience and perseverance.

Keep in mind that you need to first help your child cultivate an interest in music before he could even reap the benefits later on.

You should expose him to a variety of music, from classical to pop, as far as possible, be it through playing some selection at home, or taking him to music concerts or orchestra performances.

If you are going to enrol him in a course to learn a musical instrument, be selective about the music school you choose for him. Try to let him choose the instrument he is interested in, as this would be the greatest motivation for him to persevere and eventually attain mastery.

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