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Midbrain-Activation Tips, Issue #029
July 12, 2014
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Contents

  1. Quote for the Week
  2. Editorial
  3. Feature Article
  4. Tips & Tricksl
  5. Feedback
  6. Q & A

Quote of the Week

"It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them."

-- Leo Buscaglia

Editorial

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How to boost child’s memory by reciting or singing

Young children learn easily through reciting or singing. These activities help to boost their memory power for efficient learning as they grow.

Here are some tips…

1. Careful selection

Our favourites are classical music, nursery rhymes, educational songs and audiobooks.

During my first pregnancy, I bought several CDs of classical music and nursery rhymes to listen to every day. After Vee was born, I continued playing CDs to him every day. Perhaps that’s why he’s so into music?

2. Mind the pitch

Some CDs include children vocalists who sing out of tune or pitch. Try to avoid these and select the ones with better singing.

3. Keep the volume down

I keep the volume down so that it’s comfortable to the child’s ears, and helps maintain the peace at home. Low volume in the background also aids subconscious right brain learning.

When the baby & toddler are sleeping, Vee uses these headphones, which come with lockable volume control.

4. Moderate period of time

While playing music may help the child learn, I keep it moderate by allowing lots of time with no music in the background. This allows the child to sing and recite whatever he wishes to, so called producing his learning “output”.

I also use this time to observe what are the audio files that he likes and has benefitted from.

5. Use various languages

I play songs and audio books in English, Chinese and Bahasa Melayu to expose the children to multiple languages. You may play songs in foreign languages too.

6. Get your hands and body moving

For babies, I show them baby hand signs when singing some songs. For toddlers, I incorporate hand and body movements.

Here’s more on our experience with baby hand signs.

7. Use flash cards

Some songs can be sung while flashing cards. For instance, the ABC Song is popular with toddlers, and that’s how Vee and Jae learnt the alphabets.

Chinese classics, Linking Memory (with funny stories) and Flash Memory (without funny stories) also go well with flash cards.

8. It’s ok to repeat and repeat

When flashing cards, we generally don’t repeat often. However for favourite songs and books, it’s fine to repeat because many children simply love listening to them over and over again!

As an extreme case, Vee requested to listen to “Ten Little Indian Boys” on loop at home and in the car for ONE WHOLE YEAR. Of course, I found excuses to expose him to other songs (and give my poor ears a break), yet he kept requesting the same song.

After that, he went through phases of different favourite songs.

9. Show how to pronounce the words

When preparing a young child to recite or sing, I’d show him clearly how to pronounce the words. This means an occasional session of facing him and demonstrating lip movements.

10. Practice makes perfect

It’s exciting when the toddler does his first recitation. Let her practise as often as she’d like to and make it a fun activity. I bought a 1-minute sandtimer and Vee loves reciting the flash memory set faster than it.

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