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Ages & Stages: 0-2
Babies love to hear their parents singing to them. There is something about the closeness and attention from the parent(s) and the melody that always seems to captivate babies. Make sure to take time out to sing to your child. Singing to your child is also a way to help establish language patterns and intonations for your child in an enjoyable, unique medium. The following comes from the PBS Parents site:
There are also claims that singing (together with talking) can help establish thinking and language skills later on (click here for more information). The difficulties we as parents in multilingual families face, however, is access to the songs of our childhood. We don’t have family around who speak the same language and who can share with us the songs they sang when we were young. Our friends often don’t speak the same language either or if they do, they are as much at a loss as we are. We long to sing our childhood lullabies to our children but many of the words fail us and we can’t quite get the correct melody. One solution for this is to search for resources on the internet. There are extensive repositories of lullabies, children’s songs and more right at your fingertips. Some websites even include an audio file so that you can learn the tune An obvious solution is to purchase CDs that contain the lullabies that you are searching for. While back visiting your home country, make a point of purchasing a few CDs and bringing them back home to share with your child. If you aren’t heading over to your home country for a while, then find out where you can purchase some CDs; again, the internet is a wonderful resource for this. However you can get access to songs and lullabies, it is worth it both from a language learning advantage for your children and an emotional bonding for you and your child.
Ages 3-5: Learning an Instrument
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