If your child has the voice of an angel, singing lessons will support and develop their talent. If your child sounds more like a tortured cat or an out-of-sync machine, they can still benefit from singing lessons. In fact, almost every child has a good voice, even if most won’t ever sing professionally. The benefits of singing lessons are profound and far-reaching on many levels of child development regardless of their innate abilities.
Read on to discover 4 reasons why singing lessons are good for kids.
Improved vocal skills and physical health
Every child can benefit from improved singing techniques to expand their range and the beauty of their voice. Equally important is that they learn how to take care of their vocal cords and their whole body. To sing well, good posture, air control and deep breathing are critical. As it happens, good breathing is essential for overall health as well, oxygenating every system in the body and leading to a wide range of benefits such as greater mental clarity, better sleep, digestion, immune response and less anxiety. When taking care of the voice and body is also fun, the positive results expand exponentially!
Singing Lessons Build Character
Learning to sing develops key skills and habits that will help the child in many areas of their life, throughout their life. Learning to sing deeply implants these positive skills very effectively because it happens naturally, is rooted in the body and is associated with fun.
Specifically, singing lessons develop discipline, concentration, accuracy, the ability to listen, to accept feedback and to perform. The self-awareness needed to develop these skills naturally leads to a grounded sense of confidence and self-esteem. And — as a bonus to parents — that leads to a positive outlook and better behaviour.
Improves Academics
Music and math are well-known to complement each other. Both stimulate spatial-temporal reasoning, which is the ability to mentally move objects in space and solve multi-step problems, so we don’t need to use trial and error for every task of this sort. This ability is innate but can also be increased through exercising it, especially while having fun, playing around and improvising. Spatial-temporal reasoning is also key in fields such as architecture and engineering.
But the benefits of singing and music aren’t limited to the technical fields, singing also stimulates the language processing centers in the brain. Sound recognition, rhythm and memory are naturally enhanced when singing and learning songs. As a result, children who are involved with singing develop clear speech and learn to read easily — and this is equally true when a child learns a second language.
Increases happiness
Singing will give your child an unparalleled vehicle of expression, allowing them to find their voice, be creative and play for no other reason save for the pure joy of it. Singing lessons provide a fun structure for learning good techniques that can only feed the happiness that comes with the ability to use one’s own voice to easily make beautiful sounds, expressing the deepest emotions. Involving mind, body and spirit, singing truly is a foundational activity for health and well-being.
If you’d think your child might like to learn to sing, contact Ray Jupiter and we’ll chat about it.
