My son and I have just returned from a children’s music class. And the sights and sounds of 20 children and adults singing and playing music are still fresh in mind.
Imagine a place where small children and babies express themselves musically and learn to keep a beat. Where bright souls in little kid bodies eagerly reach for instruments. Where parents sing songs and experience music with their children.
The teacher keeps the beat, but it is barely heard over the cacophony of children and adults clinking woodsticks, beating drums, crashing tambourines, tinkling triangles, and shaking bells.
This is such wonderful stimulation for my son. He grasps a rattle and deftly bounces it a few times off a drum and onto the tambourine. He is smiling. And I am struck with the realization that my child is making music and his soul is growing in this experience.
And while we have enjoyed music in the past, our family is making the conscious decision today to make music part of our everyday life at home, in the car, at church, and wherever the music takes us.
So forget your images of perfect performancs and music for the talented few ---get your pots and pans out of the kitchen cupboard, pick up whatever musical instrument takes your fancy, and rediscover your relationship with your soul through music!
Imagine a place where small children and babies express themselves musically and learn to keep a beat. Where bright souls in little kid bodies eagerly reach for instruments. Where parents sing songs and experience music with their children.
The teacher keeps the beat, but it is barely heard over the cacophony of children and adults clinking woodsticks, beating drums, crashing tambourines, tinkling triangles, and shaking bells.
This is such wonderful stimulation for my son. He grasps a rattle and deftly bounces it a few times off a drum and onto the tambourine. He is smiling. And I am struck with the realization that my child is making music and his soul is growing in this experience.
And while we have enjoyed music in the past, our family is making the conscious decision today to make music part of our everyday life at home, in the car, at church, and wherever the music takes us.
So forget your images of perfect performancs and music for the talented few ---get your pots and pans out of the kitchen cupboard, pick up whatever musical instrument takes your fancy, and rediscover your relationship with your soul through music!
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