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When you're providing child care or making arrangements for your child, keep them in a musical environment. Even before birth and throughout your child's life, music helps them learn and grow, sometimes in surprising ways. Here are a few of the main reasons you should choose an early learning center with music in its programming.

Why Use Music in Child Care?

1. Helps With Language Development

Mothers across the world naturally use a singsong voice when talking to their children, and for good reason. This style of infant-directed speech, with more energy and bigger tone variations than a normal speaking voice, helps get babies' attention and helps them discern the sounds of speech more clearly. Music taps into the same benefits. This allows children to develop both comprehension and speaking skills more quickly, so your child will talk sooner and have a larger vocabulary.

2. Makes It Easier to Remember

Child careIf you've ever gotten a song or jingle stuck in your head, you know that music can stay with you for decades after you hear it. Skilled child care providers use this to your child's advantage by putting important information in the form of a song.

Your child will remember a song more reliably than they would remember simple facts or phrases, so they'll pick up basic knowledge like letters, numbers, colors, and more advanced subjects more easily as they get older.

3. Exercises the Brain

When your child hears music or sings, they're using more parts of their brain than when they listen to someone speaking. Music activates the parts of the brain that process sounds, govern rhythm and balance, activate memory, and stimulate emotions. This full-brain workout is healthy for developing minds and will help your child improve their performance in school or daycare.

 

Wilde Kingdom Early Learning Center in Fairfield, OH, uses music in all its child care programs. Serving the Tri-State area, their skilled and educated teachers create a safe, secure learning environment and interact with parents through their app to help keep you engaged in your child's learning. To ask about availability, visit their website or call (513) 563-9453.

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