Enjoying music is indeed the most exciting activity. Music turns out to affect the development of one's IQ (Intelligent Quotion) and EQ (Emotional Quotion). A child who has been accustomed to listening to music since childhood so that emotional intelligence and intelligence will be more developed than children who rarely listen to music. Children who often listen to music are more disciplined than children who rarely listen to music.
Music can make smart kids especially in the fields of logic and mathematical language. The beauty of music is words that blend with the tone, so that the child has a strong desire to join and without realizing it the child participates in singing in his own words for example by singing ba..ba..ba ... ba ... ba, tap - tap or snap your fingers or nod your head every time you hear the rhythm of music and so on. But the desire to follow the song he heard will encourage him to practice continuously.
Music can also help children who are less intelligent at speaking to channel hidden feelings and emotions. Playing music can trigger kinesthetic intelligence or intelligence of body movements and reduce children's stress. So if a child is drunk or upset, by playing music or listening to music for a few minutes, it will definitely refresh the child's brain.
Music can affect children's intellectual development and can make smart children socialize. Music strains provide benefits for children's intellectual development, even in the womb it is recommended to play music for children. Children's interest in music games begins with listening to music, listening to music will train children's brain functions related to intellectual and intellectual strength of children. Music can optimize children's intellectual development and music can also make children smart and creative, music can also build self-confidence and independence.
There are several benefits that can be taken if the child is stimulated with music since the womb, namely:
Children become easier to absorb input
Sensitivity to nature is better because it listens and processes music through feelings, and inspires sensitivityProvide comfort and learn various skills that need to be mastered by children or in accordance with children's talents
Helping children to express and develop creative children
Children who are able to control emotions, feelings of sadness or pleasure can be poured out through music and songs.
Children's imagination can develop through song lyrics. Classical music is great for developing children's creative imagination
Building feelings in children gives a lot of creative art experience. For example dancing, according to the rhythm of music heard by children. Music can determine a mood that excites a child to make something
Appreciation of children in music will also grow and develop in children. If the award has developed, then he can analyze the tone.
Music can improve a child's brain
Music gives positive meaning in terms of perception
Music can promote motor development, including children's efforts to learn to crawl, walk, jump, and run.The benefits of music are not limited to newborns. In the following days, music can be used as part of your child's life. Listen to music, violence three times a day. Christmas moments while sleeping, sleeping time. When humming sleep.
Listen to music not only for physical health, but also mental and brain development or cognitive.
Based on research, some experts mention evidence of the benefits of listening to music for children:
1. improve motor skills.
The author of the book Pre-Birth Learning: Every Eligible Gifted Child, Dr. Brent Logan, states, babies (even fetuses) who listen to music, develop their heart and physical beats better. The rhythm of the music is proven to stimulate the baby to enjoy moving. This response is able to help physically, in terms of strength, coordination and motor control.
2. improve communication skills.
Still according to Logan, music can help baby's brain development in receiving information. This ability will later affect its communication ability.
Neurologist, Dr. Dee Joy Coulter, who also wrote the book Early Childhood Relations: The Journal of Music and Moment-Based Learning, supports this statement. According to Coulter, games related to music will quickly improve children's learning skills by quickly increasing their vocabulary. Later it will grow into a child who is able to organize ideas and solve problems quickly.
3. Have better digestion.
Babies exposed to music will have better disturbances because of the relaxed feeling they receive. As a result, the efficiency of metabolism increases and finally weight gain improves.
4. improve math skills.
According to the results of research by psychologists Fran Rauscher and Gordon Shaw from the University of California-Irvine, United States, there are close problems between musical skills and high levels of mathematics. Also skills in science, mixing later children have entered school. Music is also able to increase spatial intelligence (space intelligence) by 46 percent compared to children who are not exposed to music.