While expecting a baby, psychologists recommend surrounding yourself with beautiful things, good music and positive emotions. While still in the mother's tummy, the child reacts to sounds, voice intonations. Perhaps even then the first rudiments of receptivity to rhythm, timbre and consonance were laid.
For plants and babies
Most often, I recommend that future mothers listen to music that is not too eccentric, moderate rhythm: Mozart, Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Chopin. Particular attention is paid to Mozart in this list: the rhythmic and tonal relationships and melodic structure in his music are so verified that they are consistent with natural human biorhythms. That is why Mozart, as a panacea, is recommended to everyone and everything - from plants grown on the windowsill to babies.
After the birth of a child, you can put the same music. And this music does not have to be classical at all. If Mom is an avid fan of gothic metal or acid jazz, there is no reason to play grudgingly at Vivaldi's Four Seasons all day. But usually the child awakens tenderness and softness, which will allow the mother, even among her preferences, to find muted versions of the style.
Swaddling with thrash metal
From the very first days of birth, a child can include light jazz, jazz-rock, instrumental, choral music, country, folk motives. And even a little hard rock. But only a little bit. Let the baby hear a little of everything. Various musical styles will excite him with a rich polyphony of sensations.
Children's songs, nursery rhymes and rhymes are good for the development of a child's speech, for the development of motor skills, memorization. Be sure to sing and dance with your child to "Let them run awkward" and "Chiki-puff-puff", but do not limit yourself to this. Show him at once the big, real.
Let the child love what you love
Introduce your baby to your favorite works. Let him hear what his mom likes.
Go together to the philharmonic, chapel, theaters. Take your three-month-old baby in a sling for the first time to an organ concert at your local church or philharmonic. Let you stay there for a very short time, let the baby fall asleep, but he will fall asleep in the waves of live, penetrating music. Do not miss street music festivals, visits to an Irish pub or a Mexican cafe, take your children with you, dance together!
To educate good musical preferences, it is also useful for children to listen to the natural sounds of nature: the noise of rain, surf, thunder, birdsong, fire crackle, rustle of grass. Be in nature often. Pay the kid's attention how many sounds are hidden in the forest, the sea.
Do not entice your child with bright American mechanical toys with artificial robotic voices. Offer your kid a tambourine, maracas, flute, castanets or just saucepan lids. Let it thunder, ring, explore. Put on a perky tune and play home orchestra. Rejoice with your baby!
