Baby Einsteins or Baby Mozarts?

Here's what some say: You want to bog kids down with all this brain stuff and turn them into baby Einsteins or Mozarts....Let them be children!!! They are too overbooked! "TROPHY KIDS".

Here's my thought:

I want to make good citizens. If a child hears fine music from the day
of his birth and learns to play it himself, he develops sensitivity, discipline
and endurance. He gets a beautiful heart.
—Shin'ichi Suzuki

LIVE music used to be an everyday affair. Like breathing air. Live music in the parlor. Live music after dinner. Live music to fill the long winter. Live music and singing to work by. Everyone singing lullabies for babies. Adult models making and loving music everywhere you look. This was and is a part of our humaness. Part of how we develop our language skills, gracefulness, empathy, intellect, and our spirit (and more). Something has happened and we have cut off our air supply. We desparately need it.

If we put it back in some then say you are trying to create a genius or a "trophy kid".

I do agree that children need down time. I do agree children need time to be out side and play with NO STRUCTURE. I do believe childern need quiet time to hear their own thoughts and make up their own songs. And I do believe we humans need music. Choose your children's activities carefully parents.

Trying to create a genius? I say maybe genius is our right. Let's go dance and sing a little, shall we? All summer!
Peace,
Yvette