Benefits of classes:

• Enjoyment - most importantly its about having fun.
• Quality Time - time set aside together to enjoy each other.
• Bonding - music and singing are a great way of bonding with your baby through shared experience and sensory exploration.
• Motor Skills - playing instruments and moving to music helps develop a child's motor skills, hand-eye coordination and even their sense of balance.
• Exploring Sound - babies enjoy exploring their ability to create sound with basic instruments and discovering cause and effect.
• Language acquisition - especially through action songs, which enable babies to make connections and learn about language through gesture. Songs help a child acquire language by introducing new words ideas and ideas.
• Speech Development through the introduction of rhythm, pattern, tone and rhyme.
• Getting out and Having Fun - it's a chance to get out, meet other parents and babies in a small friendly environment.
  
• Social Skills - for your baby it is a great way of developing social skills and interacting with other babies. It is a chance for them to make friends too!

Singing at home

There is no reason to stop enjoying singing and music when the class finishes. Music and singing can enhance parenting and improve family life on a daily basis in many ways:

• Establishing a Routine - songs and/or music work well as part of a baby’s everyday activities and to help introduce a routine. From a very young age babies recognize bath-time, eating-time, waking-up-time and (most importantly) bedtime, through a song for each activity. It makes these everyday activities more fun too.
• Staying Positive - caring for a baby is tiring and can often be overwhelming, frustrating, lonely and tedious. Singing with your baby can help improve your own mood especially when you get a warm response from your baby.
• Communication - Singing is a good way of communicating with your baby when you are too tired to think of anything to say!
• Involving Siblings - Singing and music is a good way to include older siblings with you and your baby. They feel involved and it will help them develop a relationship with the baby.
• Involving The Whole Family - singing or saying rhymes is a great way to involve partners, grandparents and other family members. Nursery Rhymes cross through generational barriers and are a good way to enjoy time with your baby together.
• Distraction Tactic - a song is a great way to distract your baby from having a wobbly.
• Providing Reassurance - a familiar song can help to comfort your baby when they feel anxious. When you are away from your baby you can ask whoever is caring for them to sing or recite a familiar song or rhyme to reassure them.
• A Free and portable activity - singing costs nothing and you can do it almost anywhere.