Shared Attention – that is the ability to share attention. Sounds simple, but in fact it must be experienced and learned by young children before they can derive certain behaviors from it. Shared Attention is an important socialization experience.
Digital media is playing an increasingly important role in our lives – including the everyday lives of our children. And many parents are concerned about this development. They ask themselves how they can protect their children from the dangers of the virtual world, how they can teach their children appropriate behavior when dealing with social media, and how they can retain control over their offspring's media consumption. The answers to these questions are actually quite simple. And these are available on my blog today.
There are many reasons we get excited about playing the piano. A piano has an impressive sound and it is incredibly versatile. The piano is certainly not the first instrument that comes to our mind when we think of rock and pop. Yet it plays a crucial role in many of the "classics" of this genre. But well, I am biased, because music is simply an important part of my life. But I also have a few reasons up my sleeve that will convince even musicophobes of the benefits of playing the piano.
For years, I have known from the field of yoga that nasal breathing plays an important role. The mucous membranes of the nose enrich the air with moisture and filter out dust particles from the air which is inhaled. In addition to that, the airway through the nose is longer and by filtering and simultaneously warming the inhaled air, the risk of catching a cold is reduced. But nasal breathing also has a positive effect on our sleep and fitness training. In the following blog post, I will tell you which effects those exactly are and how nasal breathing has personally helped me.
For those who love music and simply want to be in the thick of it, there is no "wrong" age. Any age is the right age to learn an instrument. We've had students who were 80 years old when they started learning their instrument and really enjoyed it.
Spontaneously, we associate music with the sense of hearing. At the same time, we can also experience music with other senses. We are trying to make use of this in our early musical education. In our lessons, children should perceive music holistically, they should not only hear it but also feel it. And of course deaf people can also perceive, experience and make music. They can feel the music and concentrate on the vibrations. Because music doesn't just land in our auditory canal, it flows through our body and triggers certain emotions.
Music and speech have a lot in common. Characteristics such as pitch, tempo, intonation and timbre play an equally important role in speaking and in making music. In fact, musical and linguistic stimuli are even processed in the same regions of the brain. And on top of that, children develop the ability to sing and speak at the same time. It's no wonder that musical language development is used so successfully. But how exactly does language promotion through music work?
When it comes to nutrition, it's not only what we eat that matters, but also the time frame in which we eat. In my latest blog post, I explain how interval fasting has helped me lose weight and what positive effect fasting phases can have beyond weight loss.
Music influences our mood. It sets us in motion or makes us calm down. And our favorite songs give us goosebumps. But why is that actually the case? Why do we like music and what do we need it for?
Musicality is within us and unfolds if we only have enough contact with it. With musicality it is like with the first language we speak. No one would think of explaining the grammar of his or her mother tongue to a toddler or having him or her learn words by heart.
