Children’s songs: How to encourage your child with music

From the age of six months your child can move to music and songs. As soon as it can stand, you can watch its first attempts at dancing. If you stick with it, by the age of two to three your child will be singing along to songs that are sung to you, learning the melody more easily than the words. The time of trilling and humming begins. Between the ages of three and four, little ones are also able to sit quietly and just listen to learn a song. At the age of four to five, your child will become faster and more confident and can already sing their favorite song by heart without any problems.

sing together

Singing is simple and straightforward. You always have your voice with you and basically every child can sing from birth. This gift only develops further through support, or not if there is no support. That’s why you should start singing early. Children especially like to sing with their parents. Learning and practicing a text and a melody together with you creates a great sense of community.

You are much more flexible than a CD player because you can sing the same verse as many times in a row as you and your child enjoy. It doesn’t matter to the little ones whether you’re particularly musical. Even if you don’t like singing or think you’re unmusical, do it for the sake of your child. Maybe Grandma or Grandpa can teach you a song or two?

Children’s songs as an aid to development

Music, and especially singing, not only promotes your child’s musical talent, but also strengthens their creativity, joy in learning and social skills. Singing makes your child happy, it promotes language development and gives them security. Always the same text and the structure with verses and chorus convey security and reliability. For this reason, you should start singing with your child as early as possible. It is important that you approach singing without reservations. In the beginning, your child does not have to master a certain technique and does not have to sound completely harmonious. You should encourage it in what it is doing. Let it try all genres of music and don’t immediately put a stop to individual genres. Who knows, maybe your little ones are into hits?

Singing keeps you healthy

Learning children’s songs early on and singing with your child regularly promotes their ability to concentrate, their ability to remember and their talent for improvisation. Singing also makes your child more emotionally stable and usually stays healthier. The classic children’s songs are typical of our culture and help your child to develop their self-image and to integrate. Children’s songs give security and a feeling of togetherness and your child will certainly have a good feeling even as a teenager when they remember their childhood and the songs.

Children’s songs grow with you

When singing together, you can sing together or in a canon, i.e. the same song started at different times. Musical experiments in particular are a lot of fun for children and encourage them to stick with it. The first songs are only learned by ear, but from school age your child should also learn to read music. This gives him the opportunity to easily learn foreign pieces and provides a good basis for music lessons. At this age, children can also get to know classical music, after all, the demands may also increase with age. However, make sure that the fun is not neglected, then your child will continue to make progress in the musical field.