If you ever sang a song around a campfire, or clapped to "Miss Mary Mack" on the playground, or blasted the radio on a car trip, singing at the top of your lungs, then you were doing SO MUCH MORE than just singing! When we sing, we pump out the "feel good" chemicals in our brain, we connect to the people we're with on a deeper level, and we activate new pathways in our brains... so we can more easily learn new things. And if you have a baby, toddler, or preschooler, you're doing all these things for them when you sing (regardless of whether or not you think you can sing!). 

Young children (starting at birth) are wired to RECEIVE information from the world around them and then PLAY as a way of doing complex learning. But the receiving has to come first. So, when you sing a song (doesn't matter what song), you're filling up their "music database" in their brains and giving them stuff to play with/learn about -- AND stimulating endorphins, AND bonding more deeply with them, AND building new pathways in their brains.

In Music Together, this is why all the adults in the class sing (and drum, and dance, and clap) -- our job is to give children good music for their brains to receive and an example of how to have fun making music. Whether you're in a class, in a car, on the playground, or around a campfire, sing and have fun singing with your children. You'll be making an impact now that will last a lifetime.

Enroll in a Music Together class to get new songs to sing with your child and new ways to do those songs at home! Visit www.westessexmusictogether.com to sign up for a free demo class and join the mailing list to be the first to know when new classes are added to the schedule. (Fall classes in Verona, West Orange, and Cedar Grove begin in September.)

West Essex Music Together

10 Fairview AvenueVerona, NJ 07044
Phone: (973)498-8830 I Email: westessexmt@gmail.com I Website: Visit Website