Laughter

To your health! Laughter helps strengthen the immune system, lower blood pressure, and reduce stress levels. In addition, humor helps young children handle problems or crisis situations, enhances their social skills, and helps them to create social bonds—so laugh away!

Integrated Learning

The most powerful learning experiences are those that integrate the senses, learning domains, developmental needs, and interests of the children. Through such a variety, each child will surely be touched in at least one area.  Equally important is the fact that development in one learning domain inevitably influences development in other domains.

The Good Wife’s Guide!

Check out this article from Good Housekeeping Magazine 1955. Did anyone really live like this? My mother, who sent this to me, said she never would have gotten married in the 1950’s if she had known this was how married life was SUPPOSED to be! She doesn’t remember her mother’s house being anything [...]

A Last Trip to the Beach!

And what does YOUR princess become at the beach?

Great Music From Around the World

Something that can pleasantly surprise families new to Kindermusik, is the wonderful inclusion of favorite folk songs from around the world. This adds a wonderful dimension to your music listening and exposes your child to other cultural sounds.
This fall you will hear:
For Babies
Zoom Buggy – May There Always Be Sunshine (Russia) Zum Gali Gali (Israel), [...]

How Wonderful

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
–Anne Frank

We Dance Together

Here is a terrifically inspiring website from the mother of a Downs Syndrome child. Do you believe that diversity= enrichment?

 
“A conversation with Katie is a reflection on a dialogue we had a few
years ago while I was interviewing Katie for a publication. I asked Katie
what people could do to support her dreams. I recall [...]

Read Your Children a Story—and Boost Their Brainpower

Reading aloud to infants and toddlers is beneficial in many ways, from hearing spoken language to feeling a heartbeat next to theirs. Literacy experts say that young children interact with books and reading in different ways at different ages.
The Babyzone has a great article on reading to your child.
Here is a guide to your child’s [...]

Sign & Sing!

We’re delighted to have something else to sing (and SIGN!) about!! Introducing SIGN & SING, Kindermusik International’s new SIGN LANGUAGE curriculum for parents with hearing children.
A short, ten-week session will be offered this Fall and again in the Spring. Click HERE for scheduling information, or call 513-4994 to register. Class space is limited.
Read on to [...]

NEW! Download your favorites from Kindermusik

Now you can sample and download select songs from the Kindermusik archive in the new Kindermusik Tunes store. All songs are only $0.99 each.
A few of my own favorites are:
Ally Bally
All Around the Kitchen
Baby-O
I am a Steamroller
Johnny One Hammer
Hey Lolly
Frosty the Snowman
Fiddle-dee-dee
Mary Ann
Hop Up, My Baby
Let it Snow