My child and I have a lot of fun in Kindermusik class, but sometimes I wonder...is she really learning anything about music?
To the casual observer, it might indeed look like we are just playing and having fun. While the approach is necessarily playful, every aspect of the Kindermusik curriculum is built upon a solid musical and developmental foundation. While playing and singing, children are improving their rhythmic competency, developing a sense of steady beat, achieving the ability to match pitches, becoming acquainted with timbre, learning a repertoire of songs, experiencing many different instruments, increasing their ability to listen, and of course, gaining a love of music that will last throughout their life.


I plan to have my children take music lessons when they are older. Why should I bother with a music class when they are so young?
Instinctively, we know that music belongs in the life of young children: young children are ready for music, they are in their critical period for developing a good foundation in music, and musical potential is often lost if it is not nurtured and maintained in these early years. Any one who works with young children, even infants, know how eager and receptive they are to appropriate musical experiences. Additionally, recent brain research has pointed to non-musical cross-over benefits of early music study and to how important early music exposure is to a baby's normal development. In a Kindermusik class, parent-child interaction is fostered, socialization with other children is encouraged, fine-motor and gross-motor development is enhanced, and language skills flourish. Kindermusik helps each child develop musically at the right time and in the right way, and a Kindermusik graduate has a solid foundation and a giant head-start when they move to private instrumental, voice or even dance lessons.

My child loves Kindermusik class and sings all of the songs and does all of the activities at home, but when we are in class, he just sits there.
Not to worry! Although this is sometimes frustrating to parents because of our performance oriented society, developmentally, pushing children to perform has no place in an Early Childhood program of any kind. We believe the parent is the child's most important teacher, and the home is the most important placefor that learning to grow. When you think about it, success should be measured more by what a child does all the rest of the week than what he does in the Kindermusik class. And remember that Kindermusik is about Process, not Performance. Every child can be successful in a Kindermusik class no matter what developmental level he is on.

I have twins. Will I need a caregiver for each child in class?
No, mothers of twins are successfully enrolled in Kindermusik programs.