What are the benefits of learning music education from birth?
For very young children , music has power and meaning that go beyond words. First, and most important, sharing music with young children is simply one more way to give love and receive love. Music and music experiences also support the formation of important brain connections that are being established over the first three years of life (Carlton 2000).
https://www.zerotothree.org/resources/1514-beyond-twinkle-twinkle-using-music-with-infants-and-toddlers
A 2012 study out of McMaster University showed that babies who participated in music classes with their parents in the first year of life “smile more, communicate better and show earlier and more sophisticated brain responses to music.” https://www.todaysparent.com/baby/baby-development/amazing-reasons-you-should-take-your-baby-to-music-classes/
Mish Mash is about giving your child a place to develop their passion for music, to play with confidence and to feel the joy that making music with other people brings to our lives. As well as music giving your child a place to create with others, connection with a group, and the fun of exploring together, we know that preschool music education has been found to have other benefits.
As well as being a musician, I have a postgrad diploma in Special Educational Needs which involved a lot of research, and studied psychology at Cambridge, so for those of you who are scientifically minded, I’ve put my “science head” on, to present a little scientific review of what we know so far… The easiest way to read this is to read the headlines, and if you’d like to find out more about the studies this came from, click on any headline to expand.
There is lots of evidence that shows learning music in a group helps increase confidence, improves problem solving, helps develop better relationships between parents and children and lets even the youngest children tap into their creative side.
Music supports your little ones development in a huge number of ways, and babies can respond to music from their earliest moments
Babies are born with an innate awareness of music and rhythm. We are musical animals!
Music is so meaningful for babies because they’ve been listening to the rhythm of a heartbeat since they could first hear sounds in the womb.
Babies from birth can follow a beat, and notice when a beat changes, in a way that other primates cannot. We are musical animals!
“Newborn infants detect the beat in music.” By Istvan Winkler, Gabor P. Haden, Olivia Ladinig, Istvan Sziller, and Henkjan Honing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 106, No. 4, Jan. 26, 2009.