are early music lessons for children good?

@qwe123 (253)
China
October 6, 2008 5:37am CST
signing kids up for music and art lessons is something Chinese parents enjoy doing. and research ahs found some basis for the notion that musci instruction stimulates general intelligence. is it good for kids to learn musci at a really early age? did you learn some musical instruments when you were a kid? if you become paretns, would you send your kids to take musci lessons? i am not sure, but early music lessons may have some little music esons when i was a very little kid. when i was a kid, my parents signed me up for calligraphy class, they simply want me to have aspecial skill. at that time, i did not like calligraphy, but my parents forced em to learn it. which even made me hate calligraphy competition at the verytender age. maybe i was pretty gifted at calligraphy, then i just dwell in my achievements and never have the chance to become a famous calligrapher. whatever.... i do not care whether i should beome a calligrapher in the first place. but thatexperience in my childhood does pave the way for my handwriting today, which sets me apart from other candidates when it comes to handwritten resume. all i can do is to learn some more knowledge nowadays. although it is not easy to make it up. fortunatley my mother and i began to leran piano at the end of this year. anyway, music is deep in our heart and soul.
1 response
• United States
6 Oct 08
Well, learning something like music expands your ability to understand other things. When I was younger I never got the opportunity to learn music, but I am sure I had other things that helped me when I was a child. Like music, learning other languages is great for the intelligence of children, perhaps even better since they will be able to use this in their future for a career and travel, and it is a bit more complex. It has been studied that if a child doe not learn (or begin to learn) a language by age 3 or 4 they will become feral. A feral child is one that can not communicate and are like wild animals. It's really crazy how language has this great effect on us, either it makes us civil, or without it we are like the rest of the animals.