For ages, music is found to have the power to move human beings, touch their emotions, and motivate them. Good music always goes far beyond the words and finds new meanings. Sharing and dedicating music help build the connection between parents and teachers with the little ones. The rhythms and sounds of music also help children grow in the world of feelings and sensation and experience those through words. Music offers a rewarding learning experience joyfully and helps nurture creativity and imagination in children.

Let’s take an example:

Two and half years old Paul wriggles at his cot during nap type, trying to find some comfort. ‘Momma, sing me my song,” he says. Mom starts to sing the custom-made song with lyrics made just for him in the tune of the well-known rhyme, and Paul calmly falls into sleep. This example is the same across the globe between all little kids and their parents and teachers.

For little children, music is found to have the power of going beyond just words and soothe them. First and foremost, sharing music with little children is identified as an ideal way to offer love to them and makes things easier for them to understand. Musical experiences also have the power to offer social support and help form the most important mental connections, which are established during the early ages in life.

The impact of music in early life and development

Like the best learning experiences during the early years of life in human beings, musical activities also help promote childhood development in various domains. For example, signing a lullaby in tune while rocking has its impact on the language development of toddlers, and it can also help promote the personal attachment with parents and siblings. Such types of kids learning songs can also help develop spatial awareness.

Social and emotional skill development

• Songs and music are usually shared with others too while singing in groups in classrooms, dancing with others, and playing musical instruments together, which makes it an early social experience for the little ones.
• Musical activities also help them learn experience self-regulation. Music has the power to regulate emotions as how lullabies can calm down the irritated kids.
• Singing about emotions can also help babies to learn new words describing emotional experiences. A recent study done on little babies as young as five months to a year old showed the fact that they understand emotions in music under certain conditions and can effectively discriminate between the primary emotions like happiness, sadness, playfulness, etc.
• As discussed above, music can help build relationships and teach how to cooperate with others. Music is often a team effort, and each participant contributes towards the completeness of the final output. So, group musical experiences with children playing instruments or on vocal help them to learn the importance of cooperating and sharing.

 Along with all these, children start to experience self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-efficacy through music. They develop a feeling of being smart and competent when they are able to learn music, memorize, reproduce, and perform it along with a team.