You're watching Little Wanders on BabyLeague and this week we're doing a music baby time!
Music is the color of life. Music is one of my favorite things. Music makes
you feel happy, it can make you feel sad, it makes you feel alive. Music makes me
feel like there's more to life than meets the eye. Because that keeps the world happy.
I play the piano and the oboe.
I guess for that, not really. I used to play the oboe, but I don't know how anymore.
I play the guitar, I played the piano, I play the ukulele and I play the violin.
I really want June to be exposed to music because I know how much it can impact
babies and children at such a young age. When you're playing with babies, tapping
on their body, and again these are learning how to feel the beat and to see
the beat. Brain activity of music and like creating music is so powerful. It
translates to so many different avenues in life and you're learning education
and music just helps you think differently. It can be listening to a
song and just get lost and go to a totally different world and I want to June
to be able to do that. I want her to use her imagination. I want her to be able to
feel the music and great music and to love music. Playing music with June is such a
special moment. I've been playing music to June since she was born,. Since the first
day we got her from the hospital, I sat down and played my guitar with her. It
was so crazy because it just like, the music just brought out so much emotion
to me and Kelsey and we both, I remember the first time I played a guitar and
I started falling, like I couldn't even finish the song because there's just so
much motion and I was just so happy. I can't wait for the day where she gets
like singing to the guitar, playing it. A big reason why it's so beneficial is
because baby screens are developing every single day. There's neurological
pathways and music has a huge impact on those pathways. If you have exposure to
music while those pathways are being developed, that's just going to benefit
your entire life just because of the way that it will literally hardwire the
brain. We wanted to share with you some things you can just do at home right now
if you want to expose your child to music. So obviously playing music with
your child is the first thing and then - doesn't have any instruments - no. Sing songs,
you can bang pots and pans and just do a rhythm. Mimicking their sounds, if
they're shouting out to the music, go ahead and mimic that. Even if it's
offbeat, they just get that positive reinforcement of their participating
in the music making process. Exaggerating your mouth. So if you're singing songs, like
exaggerating it and it doesn't have to be words, it can just be sounds,
exaggerating your mouth, move, lips. And then the last thing is exaggerating the pitches
so you can do one pitch really loud and then one pitch really soft and one pitch
really high. Be super dramatic. Just have fun and be silly.
Really, it's, I mean, there's so many benefits that really is just so much fun
and such a great way to bond with your baby. Have fun and be silly,
sing songs, play games. Leave it in the comments below if there's a favorite
song that you guys sing with your kids. I know we have a couple of them from class
but just get stuck in our heads over and over, so leave those down in the comments
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