Music is something many of us like or love for various reasons. However, you may not realize how much music can benefit you and your kids in life.
Children that are exposed to music early and often can have so many benefits and improvements. Today I’m going to give you all information on how music can benefit kids.
How Music Encouragement Can Benefit Kids
Social Improvement
Music can actually improve children’s social skills. Kids are able to have better self-expression and improved emotional and social well being through music exposure, which leads to better social skills.
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Improved Motor Skills
Music often goes hand in hand with movement like dancing, which can help with improving all areas of kids’ motor skills. These are incredibly useful in all aspects of life, especially for those that are disabled or have difficulty with movement.
Heightened Intelligence
Those that listen to music at an early age have been shown to have a higher IQ. This is because playing or listening to music, especially certain types such as classical music, can activate certain areas of the brain more and improve cognitive function.
Stress Relief
Especially in hard times like these, music plays an important role in allowing for stress relief through positive and fun experiences. Music can give children an escape from reality or help boost their mood in hard times.
Family Bonding
Music can be a great way for families to bond more through shared time and listening. You can have dance parties or listen to music together to have a fun pause from everyone’s lives that allows you to come together and bond.
How to Encourage Music
Now that you know some of the many amazing benefits of music and its related activities like playing instruments or movement, you can also learn some great ways to encourage this as well.
Here are some ways you can encourage music and make it more fun as well as beneficial for your children, especially if they’re young:
Keep Songs Simple
A great place to start with music sharing is to stick to simple songs. Sharing simple or short songs with your child and encouraging them to sing along can start music listening at a very early age and work on language development.
Add Activity
Adding activities like marching or twirls allows your kids to have more fun with their listening and can even improve the benefits when movement and music are combined. Simple movements can be great for toddlers to familiarize themselves with music.
Dance
You don’t have to be great at dancing to dance with your kids. Make up silly dances or different ones for different types of music, and run with it. Dancing and rhythm have so many great effects on the mind and body as well as mental development.
Make it Part of Your Routine
The best way to encourage and continue music listening is to make it a part of your family’s routine and day. Maybe have a dance break every day or listen to music during the time you’re making a meal, it can be really simple!
Overall, the ways to incorporate music and movement into your child’s life are limitless and super easy. While you’re doing this, you’ll be giving your child plenty of great benefits that will improve their life currently and in the future.
For example, Stephanie Duesing used music exposure to help her almost completely blind son achieve such heightened development that he was able to pass vision tests and do great in school. She talks in-depth about the use of music in children, its benefits, and her personal experiences in her book Eyeless Mind.
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