I know you. You love music. You have your kids in music lessons and have a secret dream they will take it all the way to pro. If you yourself are not a (trained) musician you might think there’s not much you can do to help the process but in fact your own home is one of the most important places your child will learn to be musical.
Children are not born with good singing voices or rhythmic coordination. These are learned along the way and even the simplest types of music interaction at an early age (and throughout childhood) will boost their skills. Years ago, many families had a piano in the living room (or in grandma’s living room) and it was entertaining for one of the adults to sit down at the piano and accompany the family singing hymns, Christmas carols and folk songs. But today our home entertainment tends to be passive: we mostly just watch and listen.
So if you really want to raise a rock star, I encourage you to be purposeful in incorporating music activity in your home every day….and the good news is you don’t need to do anything fancy. Here are a few ideas to get you started:
#Sing with your kids. Doesn’t matter if you’re a “good” singer or not. Teach them singing is a joyful expression of themselves by modeling this behavior for them and creating good memories of this shared activity. Sing with the radio in the car, sing with the opening theme song of their favorite show, sing a familiar bedtime song each night, sing any other song your parents or grandparents sang to you.
#Dance with your kids. Learning to move their bodies in a purposeful and rhythmic fashion will develop coordination skills for them that benefit in many areas. Let YouTube help you: look for videos that have hand or body motions with the song. I just discovered the “DannyGo” channel and even my too-cool-for-school 4th grade classes love The Wiggle Song.
“ #Compose ” with your kids: make up silly songs about daily activities and sing them spontaneously to spark their creativity, verbal and observational skills. Last week during the long car ride home, my grandson and I “composed” a rock and roll song about “Grandpa’s Motorcycle”. Once we settled on the main part we sang it over and over. The melody was definitely not Mozart-worthy but we sang about how loud it was and how fast it was and….you get the idea.
Good luck and most important of all: HAVE FUN!
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