The Benefits of Music for Young Children

By Kevin Tuck

Young children just love music and often it is through music that young children communicate for the first time, whether it be through gesture, smiling or action.

But is there more to it than that?

There is a growing amount of evidence to show that music enhances a childs ability to think, learn, reason and create and it is in the first five years of a child's life that all of the formative brain development and connections are being formed. Music brain researcher, Dr Gordon Shaw describes music as "a window into higher brain Function".

Here are three compelling reasons why we should be sending our children to music lessons while they are young.

Reason#1 - Music Makes Children Smarter

Neurologiacal Research indicates that because music involves ratio's, fractions, and thinking in space and in time that it provides learning not only for foundation musical learning,but also learning for foundation math learning being a pre requisite to learning both these subjects at higher levels.

In a study carried out by Debby Mitchell at the University Of Central Florida it was found that young children with developed rhythm skills perform better academically in early school years.

In a paper compiled at a Music Educators National Conference, 2001, it was noted that high school music students score higher verbal and math score than their peers and in research done by Phi Delta Kappan, 1994 and a paper prepared by Peter H Wood, It was found that Music Majors are the most likely group of college grads to be admitted to medical school.

Reason#2- Music is a recognised form of intelligence
In an article called " The Changing Workplace is changing our view of education", Business week, 1996 it was said "The nation's top business executives agree that arts education programs can help repair weeknesses in American education and better prepare workers for the 21st Century"
Howard Gardner, a renowned Professor of Cognition and Education wrote a book in 1983 called Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, suggests that there are many kinds of human intellegence and identifies musical intellegence to be one of them.

Reason#3 - Skills learned through music can transfer into skills which are useful in every part of a child's studies at school and can help with general well being.

As Senator Jeff Bingaman said "Music Education can be a positive force on all aspects of child's life, particularly on their academic success"

It was reported in a Texas Commission on drug and alcohol abuse that secondary students who were involved in band and orchestra reported the lowest life time and current use of all drugs.

Skills learned through the discipline can transfer into study skills, communication skills and cognitive skills useful in every part of a child's school life and a Harvard university study named the "Mozart Effect" found that spacial- temporal reasoning improves when children learn to make music.

As Michael Greene the Recording Academy President and CEO said at the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards in February 2000, "Music is a magical gift we must nourish and cultivate in our children, especially now as scientific evidence proves that an education in the arts makes better math and science students, enhances spatial intelligence in newborns, and let's not forget that the arts are a compelling solution to teen violence, certainly not the cause of it!"

About the Author

Kevin Tuck, together with his wife Janice own and run The Fun Music Company, a business specializing in helping parents and teachers make music more enjoyable and fulfilling for young children. Parents can get useful information at the Parents Music Guide http://www.parentsmusicguide.com , while music teachers can contribute and learn more about solutions at the Music Teachers Blog http://www.musicteachersblog.com

12 Points Advantage Of Music Studying

By Jack Vallieres

About the music learning it very have benefit for any part of your body such as heart, brain, body, temper, good team work and more benefit from the music this below is the music advantages you will received when you learn and play the right music.

1. Brain of first age child it will deliver still developing continuously for many years ago. The research result meet that with regard to a child has to train music side since still that tiny it will help to develop physical side of left brain section which be pertaining to language part and the analysis.

2. There is the connection between the music and the ability in size assessment and the area of all material. By this child skill will can see the association of all element such as can very what is the school bag has by oneself by know as for vacate day want to use? or even repairing problem in arithmetic difficult number etc.

3. Art students has will the development uses the imagination in all remedy the analysis outside the frame the analysis outside the frame and deny old criterion because of side arts problem it has no the right or wrong answer which be giving a chance gives a student can use the creativity extremely.

4. From the research result is late meet that a student who study art will tend to succeed in standard education all measurement and still tend have to upland education more than a child who no studies the art as well.

5. The art education that is are like a bridge to all culture as well, these thing will teach a child know to respect others person from differs culture and still pity development, the feeling sympathizes others as well.

6. Music training that can teach a child in about master craftsman skill because he must learn that. How much is all detail had cooperated altogether keep very thoroughly and what that make each works is good works in all work, these standard will help to push forward a child enlarge the capability within of oneself for step to next level of the excellence.

7. On music education a student will appreciate of devotion always for excellent result and a reward obviously seen from persistently work because of great show will can not can happen by without the beat heavily and exert.

8. The music playing still help a child is know the work is the team bing person play that good and is disciplinary in playing music are that everybody musician will must work conformly in order to achieve same. Which must devote oneself to oneself with music all education the beat accompanies with and the training heavily.

9. The music teach a person in temper show and the meaning of temper show such everybody has will the requirement to will appreciate the formed self and the feeling have of oneself which the feeling is proud and oneself that respect are the produce of the ability in way temper expression.

10. The music still help to develop all skill necessary in work, concern something playing that music emphasizes at starting to do more than only the observation see only and still help a child can communicate and work to cooperate the other well go up as well.

11. The concert help a child win the scare and will dare to risk in latency topmost development of that child the courage risks and the ability have in to manage with the excitement appropriately that regard important thing at most.

12. The music study that help to develop a child to incomparable excellence.

Can see that the music education or playing can make us valuable follow our requirement if we have the intention to study and serious to playing it will help us can succeed in the sense other of as well. Soon you will see that music is valuable very in the world now.

About the Author

Jack Vallieres is the professional freelance writer. He's also the webmaster of Entertainbox.com