From what age should the baby be allowed to listen to music?
Babies begin to hear external sounds and especially react to the sound of music, starting from 6-7 months in the womb. Studies show that babies recognize the music they heard in the womb when they listen to it after birth. Letting the baby listen to music from the womb onwards increases the baby's growth and development rate, supports social adaptation and positively affects intelligence development.
What kind of music should the baby listen to? And when is it appropriate to listen to it during the day?
The most intense sound the baby hears while in the womb is the mother's heartbeat. Research shows that the sounds closest to this sound exist in light music without words and classical music, especially in the works of Mozart. For this reason, care should be taken to ensure that the music that babies listen to is music with a calm rhythm. The baby can listen to light rhythmic music that relaxes the mother during pregnancy. The mother's calmness and peace directly affects the baby in her womb. Listening to the same music after birth makes the baby feel peaceful and safe as in the womb.
Listening to music improves the baby's physical, social, mental, emotional and language development. For this reason, it is more suitable for development to listen to it during the day, especially when the baby is awake.
What are the effects of music on development?
Effect on physical development: Babies follow the rhythm of music. They start to move. The baby, who starts sitting at 6-7 months of age, begins to shake his hands and body according to the rhythm of the music, and after a while, he begins to clap his hands. Between 10 and 12 months, the child clings to objects and stands up, swaying to the rhythm of the music while standing. These movements help strengthen the baby's muscles and develop motor skills.
Effect on mental development:Music attracts the baby's attention due to the different sounds and rhythms it contains. This attention activity leads to improvements in the brain. Especially the area of the brain related to mathematics is more activated with music. The intelligence, perception and learning skills of babies who grow up with music are higher than those who do not listen to music.
Effect on emotional development:It is seen that babies who listen to music, especially with calm rhythms, since before birth are calmer and more harmonious after birth, and when they experience restlessness, they relax after listening to familiar melodies.
Effect on ear and language development: Listening to the conversation of an adult, especially the mother, accelerates the baby's language development. Likewise, when the mother sings to the baby when she is alone, it both directs the baby's attention to the mother and accelerates language development. The baby accompanies his mother with the sounds he makes while she sings. Thus, the foundations of mutual communication are laid.
Effect on social development:When the baby who grows up with music enters a social environment, he can communicate with other people more easily due to his increased communication skills. In the future, he/she can demonstrate his/her skills in front of the public by dancing, singing or playing a musical instrument. Thus, he becomes a self-confident individual who can express his feelings and thoughts in correct and appropriate ways.
What are the effects of music on premature babies?
Research shows especially classical music. It shows that the physical development of premature babies who listen to music is greater than that of those who do not, their heartbeats become regular and they get rid of stress more quickly than other babies.
What benefits does listening to music have in later life?
Music calms the baby, makes it peaceful and serene. It ensures social harmony. It supports language and speaking skills. It increases creativity and productivity. It creates a sense of rhythm and increases movement abilities.
All of these ensure that the baby is emotionally and socially balanced and harmonious in his future life, has developed aesthetic feelings, is intellectually knowledgeable, creative, productive, thinks, questions and can express himself. provides.
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