If you are thinking about finding music lessons for your baby or perhaps a growing toddler, you are not alone. Many parents feel they are being impulsive or acting too soon if they want to put a small baby or toddler into music lessons right away, but this is completely untrue. Many babies and toddlers are taking music lessons and they are benefiting from it tremendously.
Social Skills & Music
Strollers For Toddlers
Music lessons are a great environment for children to start learning to interact with others. You may think that a two-year-old toddling around the room is too small to understand the concept of sharing or taking turns, but they are entirely capable of learning these things. In fact, the earlier a child starts to play with other children the better they will be playing with others as they get bigger.
Children need to learn how to behave when they are in the company of others. They need to learn the concept of teamwork and sharing. This all comes easily through music programs that are designed specifically for babies and toddlers. They will be exposed to music as well as other children who are interested in music.
Body Movement & Music
No baby is too small to start learning how to move their body. Even newborns enjoy having their legs and arms massaged and gently moved around to soothing music. They may not be ready to start dancing around the living room, but they are not too small to enjoy the movement of their body.
Humans were designed for movement! You have to move a lot just to be healthy and live a long life.
Music lessons are the perfect environment to allow children to move their bodies and learn to live a healthy, active life. Music lessons designed for babies and toddlers will expose the child to a variety of music types. They will be encouraged to move their arms and legs and let their body loose when they hear a tune that really appeals to them.
Hand-Eye Coordination & Music
Music lessons for babies and toddlers will allow children to make their own music as well as listening to already prepared music. They will start to hear the different sounds that different instruments make and they will be forced to enhance coordination between their eyes and their hands. Think of the way musicians keep their fingers tightly pressed over small holes, hit the right drum head in just the right spot, or read sheet music while playing the piano. Everything has to coordinate together and small children start doing this very early when they are playing music.
Communication & Music
Music is a great way to allow children to express themselves. Through music they can feel a wide range of emotions and learn to communicate with the rest of the world. As babies and toddlers they may be too young to really understand what lyrics mean and know exactly what emotions are being evoked by a particular musical piece, but they are not too young to feel emotions brought on by the sound and feel of music.
Parent/Child Bonding & Music
Music lessons are also excellent opportunities for parents and small children to bond. Even little babies who can't really move around on their own enjoy staring into their parent's faces and watching their natural responses to the music floating around them. They enjoy feeling loved and receiving attention, which is why so many parents are now taking mommy & me type music lessons with tiny babies and toddlers.