All over the world, parents bond with their babies through musical sounds and rhythmic movement. They rock and swing their children, put them to sleep with lullabies, make them laugh with nursery rhymes. Parents know instinctively what scientists have now proven: young children thrive on music.

Music matters

Your child, whether a newborn infant or a new grade school student, will truly benefit from Kindermusik classes—and we have the research to prove it!

Psychologists, neuroscientists, and experts in early childhood development have demonstrated that music does more for children than bring them joy; it helps their brain cells make the connections needed for virtually every kind of intelligence. Kindermusik's curriculum is built on this research.

When young children are consistently engaged by music in an age-appropriate, socially accepting and sensory environment, they benefit at many levels:

• They gain the phonological processing, and comprehension skills that are the foundation of reading and language. Language and literacy skills such as speaking, vocabulary, comprehension, listening and expression are enhanced.
• They build the spatial-temporal and reasoning skills required for math, science, and engineering, reinforcing your child's mathematics and pattern-recognition skills.
• They develop social and emotional skills that are essential for school readiness and life—like the ability to regulate their responses and relate to others in complex ways.
• By moving and dancing to music and playing simple instruments, children improve their gross and fine motor skills and gain the ability to plan, guide and self-regulate their behavior.
• Activities that encourage freedom within a fun and friendly structure spark their creativity.
• Giving a child the opportunity to explore and discover in an environment with a variety of sensory experiences helps him develop the ability to process and appropriately respond to sensory input.
• Because of their love of music and because music and family are at the center of our classes, children absorb, retain and thoroughly enjoy what their Kindermusik experience offers them both in class and at home.