Music stimulates the baby’s development
Most have heard people say that having a baby listening to classical music will make him a smarter child. This statement is a bit misleading. Tune in to a little Mozart every day will definitely not turn your child into a prodigy. However, music stimulates a child’s development, including emotional, motor, and language skills. So if the above statement equates to a smarter child in your eyes, then so be it.
The singing voice of a loving parent can stimulate language skills. Even if you feel like you can’t sing at all, your little baby will be delighted with your personal concert. Sing nursery rhymes or other nursery rhymes to stimulate your baby’s development.
I would often sing to my little daughter, even singing along with the melodies of her toys. At 20 months, he was able to sing all the lyrics to “Twinkle, Twinkle” clearly. She knew what the words meant because we made hand movements to accompany the words. These gestures helped his motor skills. And you don’t have to know anything fancy to put on a song. Simple dancing and swinging sharpen a child’s motor skills.
At Brigham Young University, researchers studied how music affected 33 premature babies in a Utah intensive care unit. The babies listened to men and women singing lullabies recorded on a cassette tape for 40 minutes a day for four days. On the fourth day, doctors found that babies who listened to music had lower blood pressure, gained more weight, and had a stronger heart rate than those who didn’t listen to music.
Yes, music can have a healing power. When your baby is upset, sing softly to him or put soothing songs on a CD. Perhaps your little one returns to his old self faster than he would have been without music.
So even if you are not training the next Mozart, you can encourage the learning process by singing and playing music regularly for your baby.
