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Should you force your child to learn an instrument?
First off, never force your child to practice. Study after study shows that positive reinforcement promotes growth and learning much better than negative reinforcement.
Why is musical instruments important for children?
Helps with sensory development – when they are able to create and explore ideas using musical instruments for kids, it creates more pathways in their brains. Build upon gross and fine motor skills – banging on a drum helps build gross motor skills. But opening and closing fingers helps with fine motor skills.
What is the purpose of musical instruments?
A musical instrument is used to make musical sounds. Once humans moved from making sounds with their bodies — for example, by clapping—to using objects to create music from sounds, musical instruments were born.
Why do you make your children learn musical instruments?
I make my children learn musical instruments for the same reason I make my children learn a foreign language. It’s part of a complete education. Music and math are interrelated, and music can be taught like a language starting at age 3 and 4, so the kids have this innate understanding of math long before they go to school.
Why should you Encourage your children to play music?
After all, learning to play a musical instrument has numerous advantages for the little ones – cognitive, motor, and mental skills, just to name a few. Here are 10 reasons why you should encourage your children to play music and to enter a world of discovery.
What is the relationship between music and math?
Music and math are interrelated, and music can be taught like a language starting at age 3 and 4, so the kids have this innate understanding of math long before they go to school. At 9 and 12 neither of my children are prodigies, but they love music, and they understand how to read music, and each child knows how to play two different instruments.
Should kids be able to read sheet music?
Honestly understanding how to read sheet music is a basic skill that kids should learn in the k-12 years. Reading sheet music can be learned even if a child only studies an instrument for a year or so. So even if they quit the instrument, they will still be able to read music.