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Don Campbell
World renowned authority on
the transformative power of listening and music, and author
of The Mozart Effect ® for Children
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"Kindermusik provides the
sound nutrition to improve movement, listening, and expression
in young children. Through activities and music making, skills
for parents and children alike create inroads for the great orchestration
of a family's hearts, minds, and bodies." |
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"A major task for toddlers,
that can confuse parents at first, is resolving the conflict between
their passionate desire for closeness to their parents —
after all, they are still barely out of babyhood — and their
equally fierce drive for independence. Activities such as story
time in the Kindermusik Our Time™ curriculum provide
toddlers this opportunity. A child can move into the circle during
Music and Movement Story Time and actively participate if he wishes,
or he can stay close to mom or dad and listen to the story being
read. Given this security, most toddlers will naturally move to
greater, and more appropriate, independence as they approach pre-school
age." |
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Melissa R. Johnson, Ph.D.
Pediatric psychologist
Cary, N.C.
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Anne Green Gilbert
Movement specialist, author of Creative
Dance for All Ages, and director of Creative Dance
Center
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"Current research has shown
that movement is the key to learning at any age. Our brains fully
develop through movement activities such as crawling, rolling
turning, walking, skipping, reaching and much more. When children
and adults participate in Kindermusik classes they are developing
both sides of their brains through structured and creative music
and movement activities. As we approach the millennium it is even
more important to keep moving and making music! Television, video
games and computers have helped to produce a generation that struggles
with learning problems, hyperactivity and obesity. Many of these
problems can be helped through systematic music and movement exercises
and patterns. Kindermusik classes have always been fun! Now I
feel strongly that they are also part of our essential learning
process!" |
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"As an early childhood advocate
I have found good music invaluable as a teaching tool. Kindermusik
has taken the art of combining music with learning to a new and
higher educational level. When children experience music in their
early years, it lasts throughout their lifetime. Recent literature
may attempt to refute the value of music as it relates to IQ,
but experts cannot deny the effect music has on the development
of a child's complete well-being. Kindermusik is pioneering a
movement that will prove valuable to children for many years into
the future. As a trainer, with more than 20 years tenure, I welcome
the new millennium and the music it brings, and I thank Kindermusik
for its contribution to holistic learning." |
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Jim Powell, Ed.D.
National director of Assessment and
Evaluation, Kaplan Companies
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Claudia Quigg, M.Ed.
Founder and executive director of
BabyTALK, a program dedicated to helping parents become
better parents to their children
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"When introduced appropriately,
music and literature play an amazing role in the development of
infants and toddlers. I'm happy that Kindermusik has extended
their programs to include this time of life when brain development
is most vulnerable and parents are most in need of support and
direction." |
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"Kindermusik is elegant in
its integrated approach to a child's development. Physiologically,
touch, movement, rhythm and sound are the keystones to developing
a healthy vestibular system and optimizing nervous system and
brain growth. The importance of having families working together,
where everyone benefits from the sense of belonging, gets directly
at the heart of what we, as a society, are needing at this time
to raise healthy, loving children and ensure a world of peace.
All of this is provided in the Kindermusik program." |
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Carla Hannaford, Ph.D.
Biologist, educator, and author of
Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All in Your Head
and The Dominance Factor
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Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
International family educator and
author of Raising Your Spirited Child, Raising
Your Spirited Child Workbook, and Kids, Parents
and Power Struggles: Winning for a Lifetime
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"Kindermusik brings parents
and children together for fun and education. The learning is active,
engaging and developmentally appropriate. Children are exposed
to diverse learning materials and are provided with rich opportunities
for hands-on experiences with developmentally appropriate instruments.
The joy is in the process of learning and the result is children
who are more attuned in reaching their full potential." |
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"One of my strongest impressions
of Kindermusik's work is the variety of musical selections for
children. The selections are of high quality and of considerable
diversity, such that children can listen and respond to the music
of Bach, Mozart, contemporary composers, and cultural traditions
around the globe. Kindermusik understands that children deserve
opportunities to know a palette of musical colors, and thus through
the program provide windows to the world of people and their artistic
expressions. This rainbow of musical colors is the stuff that
surrounds children through their Kindermusik experiences, so that
their listening, movement, singing, and playing possibilities
are grounded in history and across cultures. These musical beginnings
set children straight for a lifetime of well-considered choices
in their musical and cultural valuing." |
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Patricia Campbell, Ph.D.
Professor of Music at University
of Washington and author of Songs in Their Heads:
Music and Its Meaning in Children's Lives and Lessons
from the World
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