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Babies and Music? Some wonderful suggestions. Part 1.
Babies and Music? Some wonderful suggestions. Part 2.

Part 3

My best advice is to follow your child’s lead, and if he doesn’t seem ready don’t push it. I do know that in Suzuki they start kids as young as two, and one of the biggest ways they motivate their children is to play the piano yourself. If you play already, great, do it! If you don’t, the Suzuki method has you take lessons that your young child goes to for a few months before they get to take their first lesson, so they really want to do it. My little guy is 18 months and I don’t think he’s ready yet. I do give him plenty of opportunity to tickle the ivories, but I haven’t given him formal lessons. I have a collection of percussion instruments I let him play with, and mostly right now I’m doing singing things with him. The suzuki method includes a lot of listening, not just the CD’s of the songs they play, and they recommend you start that much younger, even at birth. I highly recommend “Nurtured by Love” by Suzuki to anyone who is interested in teaching their very young children music, even if you don’t want to use the method. It’s a short book, and was very inspirational. Good luck!

For more suggestions from Tamsyn, see:
Babies and Music? Some wonderful suggestions. Part 1.
Babies and Music? Some wonderful suggestions. Part 2.