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Playing classical music to your child while they’re still in the womb can stimulate development, new research suggests. Music has long been a way for expectant parents to connect with their unborn ...

Parents have long intuitively known that music holds more than mere entertainment value for their little ones. Now, scientific research confirms this parental wisdom, establishing music as a powerful ...

Children’s bedtime scenes have changed significantly over time. There was once an era when children drifted off to sleep listening to stories, songs, or rhymes in the voices of their parents or ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bruce Schaubroeck, co-founder of the world-renowned House of Guitars in Rochester, NY, has been featured in HelloNation magazine for his passionate ...

Timothy McKenry is a syllabus consultant and examiner for the Australian Music Examinations Board. There are many reasons a child should learn a musical instrument. Not only does it give them the ...

You may have a playlist carefully curated for an intense workout that mysteriously pushes you through the last set. Or maybe you have a go-to album you reach for when your brain is scattered, ...

In a previous Psychology Today blog post, "Musical Training Optimizes Brain Function," I wrote about a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience which reported that playing an instrument before ...

Conjoint parent-child music lessons can be a recipe for success. Source: Ketut Subiyanto/Pexels Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that parents who play an instrument themselves often approach ...