Music, is it Essential to Your Child's Success?
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Is Music Essential to Your Child's Success? The answer will depend on what your goals are for your children.
Countless studies have shown that when music is a part of a child’s life, they excel beyond their counterparts that do not include music in their lives.
Music and learning to play an instrument have been directly linked to higher grades, improved cognitive function, and increased concentration levels. .
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A happy environment
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Can Boost Feelings of Self-Esteem & Self-Worth
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Can Boost Socialization
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Playing An Instrument Hones Fine Motor Skills
- Helps Provide Emotional Regulation
- Four times more likely to take part in a math or science fair.
- Three times more likely to have good school attendance and win an award for it.
- Four times more likely to be recognized and acknowledged for academic achievements.
- Three times more likely to stand for and be elected to class office.
- Likely to have higher SAT scores.
- Less likely to drop out of school.
- More likely to gain employment after school due to their creativity.
I am bias when it comes to piano lessons. I have been playing the piano since I was eight and teaching piano for 32 years! Piano is a foundational instrument, teaching a child to read notes, count, dynamics, etc. that can be used with any other instrument.
Depending on your personality as a parent/teacher, adding elective classes to your homeschool maybe difficult. I was continually fighting myself to make school fun and also get done what was necessary.
There are more academic “have too's” when your children become teens, but don’t remove the arts! Use the two fine arts credits that most states require for graduation to add music or art that interest them.
Because I believe that music and art are so important to improving your child’s life, I created a homeschool resource, History Science, Music Art: A Great Combo for Learning (only $1.97!) to help you add music and art to your child’s homeschool that will completely coincide with the history and or science that they are learning.
These are perfect combinations that will help learning stick by using several senses at once. The more senses a person uses to learn something, the better the chances or remembering and recalling what has been learned.
Enjoying the journey,
~Michelle~
Michelle Osborn is the owner and founder of Homeschooling Teens Successfully and Yellow House Book Rental, specializing in providing homeschool curriculum as well as counseling and guidance for homeschool families. She is a wife, a 22-year homeschool veteran, and mom of four children and six grandchildren. Two of her children are now entrepreneurs, running their own successfully businesses. Michelle’s passions include serving by leading worship at her church and encouraging homeschool moms through one on one, social media and speaking engagements. She has found her niche in helping parents homeschooling their teens through the high school years and on to pursue their dreams.
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