If I had to choose just one extracurricular activity for my children, it would be a difficult toss-up between swimming and music classes. Swimming is a life skill. And a scholarship sport. Formally introducing music into your child’s life, on the other hand, is proven to improve memory and math skills. The folks at Kindermusik –…
Name Your Tune, volumes 1 and 2
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while now, it’ll come as no surprise that I love music. As a closet Broadway star, I’ll belt out anything from a tune from Wicked to the Itsy Bitsy Spider. I think imparting a love of music in our kids is important, and I think the gift of…
Carousel Dreams CD (MoonDreams Music)
We’re a music house. Not a day has passed since we welcomed The K Man into the world that music hasn’t been part of our daily routine. Whether it was dancing to ABBA around our tiny living room in our first home, singing my special goodnight songs for each of my children or listening to…
Squishy Banana…and other great songs
Have you heard some children’s CDs out there? Seriously, there’s some real crap. Terrible rhymes, annoyingly high-pitched voices and messages that aren’t really my idea of values I wish to instill. Sometimes I wonder if these so-called children’s entertainers are really just failed musicians who couldn’t hack it in the big leagues. That’s why it’s…