http://www.childrensmusicworkshop.com/advocacy/best-thing-your-parents-ever-did/ by Tom Barn
If your parents ever submitted you to regular music lessons as a kid, you probably got in a fight with them once or twice about it. Maybe you didn’t want to go; maybe you didn’t like practicing. But we have some bad news: They were right. It turns out that all those endless major scale exercises and repetitions of “Chopsticks” had some incredible effects on our minds.es • February 17, 2015
Psychological studies continue to uncover more and more benefits that music lessons provide to developing minds. One incredibly comprehensive longitudinal study, produced by the German Socio-Economic Panel in 2013, stated the power of music lessons as plain as could be: “Music improves cognitive and non-cognitive skills more than twice as much as sports, theater or dance.”
The study found that kids who take music lessons “have better cognitive skills and school grades and are more conscientious, open and ambitious.” And that’s just the beginning. The following list is a sampling of the vast amount of neurological benefits that music lessons can provide. Considering this vast diversity, it’s baffling that there are still kids in this country who are not receiving high-quality music education in their schools. Every kid should have this same shot at success.
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- It improved your reading and verbal skills.
- It improved your mathematical and spatial-temporal reasoning.
- It helped your grades.
- It raised your IQ.
- It helped you learn languages more quickly.
- It made you a better listener, which will help a lot when you’re older.
- It will slow the effects of aging.
- It strengthened your motor cortex.
- It improved your working memory.
- It improved your long-term memory for visual stimuli.
- It made you better at managing anxiety.
- It enhanced your self-confidence and self-esteem.
- It made you more creative.