Music Matters for Babies, Toddlers and Preschoolers
- 90% of preschool children studied showed increased verbal intelligence after just 20 days of musical training (http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/music-training-enhances-childrens-verbal-intelligence-36701)
Combining rhythm and movement is beneficial to babies. Giving infants stimulation that combines both sound and movement, such as bouncing them on your knee while singing to them, is not only pleasurable but could be beneficial. (Ref.: Phillips-Silver J, Trainor LJ. Feeling the beat: Movement influences infant rhythm perception. Science 2005;308(5727):1430.)