Bonding, language and music

[babybonding]

Hi All,

I'd like your opinion if you please? I've been doing a lot of reading about music, bonding and language recently, and how they're all connected. I trained originally as a music teacher you see, so its a personal interest, but initially these were all discrete areas of interest for me.

Although happy to explain further if helpful, I'll summarise here what I focussed on;

• the emotional capacity of music (we've all experienced it with our favourite music/ music that reminds us of a place/person/experience) to facilitate bonding between parent and child,
  
• the commonalities between music and language in infants; babies' tendency to relate communicate with the world through a musical 'language', which is their first attempt at communicating as we do,
  

-Our capacity to develop these connections at their earliest stages in order to offer something of benefit to parents who may be struggling in any or all of these areas.

I couldn't resist putting together a programme-of-sorts (the teacher in me!) but I wanted some feedback from Mums/Dads on the idea.

Thanks,
Suzanne

[morethanpotatoprints]

I don't understand your thread OP
Are you trying to ask our advice about something, sell something, or inform us of something?

[Andcake]

For me a shared love of mutual songs - didn't need a program as such just a reminder of great songs I loved as a kid at baby toddler groups.

I love that my ds now sings lots of songs aged 2.5 and mixes up the words and has favorite songs.

But I love introducing him to new stuff too.

Nearly all baby and toddler groups use music so I don't think their is a real extra need.

I look for spotify play lists and use you tube.

We also have rules around certain songs e.g. 'wheels of the bus is NOT a bedtime song'


songs are great for learning