Why Take Music Lessons?
How Music Translates To Success In School, Regardless Of Socioeconomic Status
Your child needn’t pursue a professional career in music to enjoy the benefits lessons can provide - musical children often perform better in school, and this principle applies to children of all backgrounds and socioeconomic statuses. See how music can improve quality of life and performance for children and high schoolers from all walks of life.
How Music Can Enhance Brain Development
Does music really make your child smarter? While “smarter” can be a subjective term, music has been shown to promote sensory development, memory, language development, and more. A healthy brain requires stimulation, and few things bring your brain to life like musical study.
How Does Music Improve Motor Skills?
Almost immediately after birth, children begin to use their muscles to discover the world around them. It is through these movements that they learn about the space in which they exist, the people and things around them. As they continue to grow these movements become more complex but as very vital to the quality of life in which they will live. As a matter of fact, French psychologist, Jean Piaget argues that apart from sensory experiences, motor experiences are at the heart of the intellectual development of children since it is through interaction with their environment that they do most of their learning.
How Music Can Improve Social Skills
Ever since our ancestors began organizing themselves into groups there has been need to communicate and follow some form of rules and regulations if someone were to comfortably fit into a group. As a matter of fact, being able to communicate adapt, fit in, and follow rules quite often determined one’s chances of survival. This requirement to follow rules and regulations is still applicable today. In fact, because we are a more organized people, it is far more crucial.
The Impact Of Musical Training On IQ
Intelligence Quotient often referred to as IQ is a specific score that is given to a person based on the results he/ she got after taking a standardized test to determine the IQ levels in persons of a specified age. In an age where the demand for education is at an all-time high, the benefits of having a high IQ cannot be overstated.
How Music Can Improve Reading Skills
The benefits of knowing how to read efficiently and effectively, goes far beyond acquiring new information. Being able to read is necessary if the child is to go through the different stages of education leading up to landing that awesome job. As a matter of fact, knowing how to read is fundamental to survival, since every aspect of society and life requires one to do some amount of reading. One who cannot read is a danger to others and to oneself. George R.R. Martin puts it nicely when he said, “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” From entertainment to educational advancement, the necessity of being able to read can never be over emphasized.