Improv at Kindermusik
Recently, on an episode of This American Life , they interviewed a woman named Karen Stobbe who gives workshops on employing the techniques she learned as an improv actor to take care of…
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303 articles on music, childhood development, and family connection, gathered from the studio's public archive.
Fair and Fun and Skipping Free
“And when we grow up, do you think we’ll see, that I’m still like you, and you’re still like me? I might be pretty, you might grow tall, but we don’t have to change at all.”…
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As I’ve mentioned before, I teach Spanish at a local school. One of my biggest rules is that the students are only to speak Spanish, or, at least, we aim for Spanish 90% of the time.…
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Joy
At the end of my daughter’s Kindermusik for the Young Child classes this week, a fellow student came bursting out of class, with delight and pride, exclaiming to her mom that she “matched…
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Have you seen any of those “Difference-between-your-first-and-second-child” humor posts ? Stuff like, your first child gets his own nursery, complete with matching bedding and hangers,…
Read ArticleThe Emotion of Music
This week in my daughter’s Kindermusik for the Young Child class , Ms. Carol talked with the kids about how music is connected to emotion—that it can help us feel happy or sad. The kids…
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The Ruth D. Anderson Kindermusik Children’s Fund
Kimberly Sena Moore, MM, NMT-F, MT-BC, a board-certified musical therapist and neurologic music therapist, writes a great article about why musical therapy works. Among other reasons, she…
Read ArticleHe Called for His Pipe and He Called For His Bowl
Last year, my 9-year old son, seemingly out of the blue, came to us and said, “I want to learn how to play the bagpipes.” Consequently, I’ve learned more about bagpipes than I ever thought…
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It’s Music, too!
I find myself continually writing in this blog about how Kindermusik develops the whole child ( here , here and here , just to name a few). But as I sat in my daughter’s Kindmusik for the…
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