Keep the Beat With Your Child!

Musical Parenting Tip: Keep the beat with your child!

Why?

• Sung, chanted, or played, young children love steady beat (perhaps, due to its similarity to the heartbeat baby heard in the womb).
• Steady beat competency is an important skill for music, but also for other activities requiring regularly-paced, repeated motion (like walking, running, ball bouncing, bike riding, and using scissors)
• Steady beat competency has been linked to language, and the ability to read.

How?

• Do a lap bounce, with baby! Bouncing, moving, and listening are all ways for him to experience, internalize & begin to express steady beat.
• Exercising baby’s arms & legs to a nursery rhyme, like ‘Cackle, Cackle,’ helps her experience the beat.
• Tap the beat on baby’s body, as you sing or listen.

Want to learn more?

On our blog – read The Importance of Steady Beat.

Also, read 4 Reasons Steady Beat skills Matter in Early Childhood Education.