Give Me the Beat, Boys and Girls

March 02, 2009

As parents, we instinctively love to sing to our children, no matter how tone-deaf we may be. And they like nothing better than to listen and join in when they have learned the tune. Much preschool learning is built around songs -- alphabet songs, counting songs, animal songs, clean-up songs, you name it! And it stands to reason: you can repeat a

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Grown-up Music That Kids Adore

March 02, 2009

Rock or pop, country or classical, there's a kiddie artist making music for kids in every genre. And grown-up artists like  They Might Be Giants ,  Barenaked Ladies , and  Lisa Loeb  have recently recorded best-selling albums for kids. But why give your kids cutesy versions of the real thing? Preschoolers know a good thing when they hear it

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Singing Our Lives

March 03, 2009

I don't think I ever appreciated how important music is in my day to day life until I started noticing how relevant and common it is to my four year old. For example, each morning usually starts out with a little diddy about "wake up you sleeping head, get up, get out of bed..." which then turns into a song about counting or putting clothes on. I

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Soundtrack for Life

March 04, 2009

For the next couple weeks we are going to take a look at music and children. My kids have not taken formal music classes yet. I believe there will be time for that later, once they have developed more. That is not to say that we do not believe music is important. Both my husband and I have a wide range of music tastes and enjoy sharing music with

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School of Song

March 05, 2009

A long time ago, before my kids were in the picture, my husband and I used to pretend we were a band.  I sang, wrote lyrics and sort of banged on the keyboard, while he did pretty much everything else.  We had a lot of fun, crafting brilliant songs about soured love and tornadoes, but when the kids came along, and our lives grew more

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