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BENEFITS OF MUSIC FOR EARLY INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT:
"Listening to music, such as classical or jazz, may make learning easier and more effective since music exercises some of the same brain circuits involved in learning math, language, and other skills." — Ronald Kotulak of Inside the Brain, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning series
"People who learned to play musical instruments as children process spoken language faster and more accurately than their nonmusical counterparts as adults." — Stanford University research, published Nov. 17, 2005, USA Today
"Children who take music lessons before the age of six tend to be more intelligent than their peers, according to the results of a study in Canada." — Karen Miller, Music Lesson Helps Children Climb the Intelligence Scale
"...Musically stimulated babies seem to develop more quickly, talking up to six months earlier, and have improved intellectual development." — Dr. Sarah Brewer of Super Baby
THE IMPORTANCE OF PARENT-CHILD BONDING:
"Emotional development has a curious and important quality: As tiny infants, long before we have words to describe our feelings, or experiences with parents, siblings and caregivers...help establish a mental map that will guide our emotional life, and in turn, its influence on all of our thinking processes." — Marian Diamond Ph.D., and Janet Hopson of Magic Trees of the Mind
"I would tell people to love their kids and most things follow from that. That's what they need most." — Adele Diamond of MIT Brain and Behavior Researcher
"How parents care for the baby and toddler can help determine the course of that brain development and the child's behavior...Love, encouragement...can help a child get the very best start." — Marian Diamond Ph.D., and Janet Hopson of Magic Trees of the Mind
"The bond between parent and child is the child's primary source of emotional health. It gives your child the capacity to have satisfying relationships the rest of his or her life." — Beck A. Bailey, Ph.D. of I Love You Rituals
THE CRITICAL EARLY WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY:
"It is during this period, and especially the first three years that the foundations for thinking, language, vision, attitudes, aptitudes and other characteristics are laid down. Then the windows close, and much of the fundamental architecture of the brain is completed." — Ronald Kotulak of Inside the Brain, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning series
"When it comes to building the human brain, nature supplies the construction materials and nurture serves as the architect that puts them together." — Ronald Kotulak of Inside the Brain, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning series
"The quality of the environment and the kind of experiences children have may affect brain structure and functioning so profoundly that they may not be correctable after age five." — Craig Ramey, University of Alabama
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"For the most part, however, the first few years have been left to 'child's play' because it was thought that 'real learning' begins when a child enters elementary school. Now we know that that's too late to start. A growing number of children enter the school system with intellectual deficits that could have been prevented with early mental stimulation." — Ronald Kotulak of Inside the Brain, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning series
BENEFITS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSIC EDUCATION:
"While educational leaders turn to early childhood music because it promotes brain development, they will stay with music because of the joy and stimulation experienced in actual music making. Music learning requires total involvement-that is why it appeals so much to young children" — Lorna Heyge, Ph.D., Music Educator
"Parents who spend time and money to teach their children music, take heart-- a new Canadian study shows young children who take music lessons have far better memories than their nonmusical peers."— Jennifer Kwan, Music Lessons Help Young Child Memories
"The sooner children begin to enjoy a rich music environment, the sooner their music aptitude will begin to move upward toward its birth level, and the closer it will come to reaching and remaining at that level throughout life . "— Edwin Gordon of A Music Learning Theory for Newborn and Young Children
"In every culture since the earliest humans, music has been used to invoke spirits, tell stories and accompany rituals.. Music is the first creative art form in our lives to reach us in a profound way." — Tuning Into the Benefits of Music Education
"Music is a powerful tool and as seen as dramatically improve and enrich everybody. It makes sense to push music education and to allow young generations to gain these wonderful benefits - higher intelligence through increased creative thinking, problem solving and physically stronger brains, a higher perception of life including better attitudes, strong desires to achieve and fulfill and higher self esteem, better developed discipline, study skills, concentration, communication and team skills which transfer from education through to career and a better understanding of communities and society." — Edward Droscher of Music Education - The Benefits to Children
Click to view this video: Keeping Kids Healthy: Music and Learning.., 27-minutes, October 5, 2006
Would you like to know more about about early child development? For further information on these topics and programs by Musikandmotion for Kindermusik, Sacramento, Calif., email Sunny Kira, M.A., . You will receive a personal reply within 24 hours. Or call 916-419-6999.
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