Today’s society still has a place for kids hip hop music, minus the negative association from the original version. The original fans grew up and most already have kids of their own now. Probably today, while many of them listen to recent hip hop music, their kids try their ears at what their parents used to listen to. This new kids hip hop music sub-culture has none of the earmarks of the past, because the stories of the streets are now a bigger part of our society’s past because the founding fathers and mothers of rap forced it to be, so the shock factor is now gone. Kids may mimic it, but not necessarily include the violence in it.

Gone is the criminal, the thug, the antisocial. In its place is the leader, the world builder, the entrepreneur, human rights advocate, lover of animals and the champions of love and relationships. Today’s kids hip hop music will advance and prosper and become more positive, because of the revival of poetry and art from its roots. Themed albums dedicated to the more positive lessons of life learned the hard way are taking precedence over just grabbing what you want, when you want. The music’s influence today can only benefit our children more than anything there is in this world’s society.

This is where the work of parent starts. instead of dictating what your kid should listen to, try and cultivate the art of making your kid discover the music and its melody. remember persuasion always works, while dictating always back fires.

Help your kid discover the beauty of music.

I wish that as they grow up, I can help divert their energy to other productive activities and help them grow into a balanced person. Luckily, I found the answer and started with that project. I got them involved with music and found it effective in teaching them a lot of things.

An article I read claimed that children develop their creativity and self-expression when they participate in activities like drawing, acting, dancing and playing musical instruments. They develop a lot of skills like communication in early childhood if exposed to social activities like this. When you teach a child the basics of singing, you teach them the lyrics, the wordings of a song, notes and the rhythm to sing it with.

Using a Good Head Fake

Randy Paunch, the author of “The Last Lecture” calls it the Head Fake. Teaching some thing, and at the same time sneaking other learning within it.

This approach could help them learn the basics in sentence construction and expressing their thoughts using words.

It is easy to get children’s attention and interest with music. But it is not the same with Math. Children tend to lose their focus and sometimes prefer playing or watching TV. This is primarily because they have never been taught how to have fun with math!!

To solve this problem, I mixed music with math. It’s easy. While children learn the components of music like rhythm, tone and pitch, they are also learning the math behind.

How, you say? Well, in learning music, the kids needs to understand the combination of notes and the number of beats that it get to have a perfect rhythm. A quarter note receives one beat and a half note receives two beats. There you see. They learn math by adding beats.

Before you can introduce them to concepts like beats, notes etc, you need to get them hooked to music first. Once they develop a love for music they will have little resistance to learning the number game because that will help them do more of what they like… i.e. music… be it singing or playing an instrument all such activities will need a bit of math at sometime or the other.

Connecting Music to math

Many Studies show that children who excel in music tend to excel in math. This is because music and math are closely connected. Learning music requires a kid to be good in different component of music like rhythm, tone and pitch. Music uses mathematical symbols to communicate its content. For example, you use less than and greater than before a note if you wanted the pitch to lessen or increase. When kids interpret what is written in the music notes, they would have to understand these symbols.

But how can you teach them music if you are not a music teacher? It does not necessarily mean that you would be the one to teach them music. Here’s another way you can use music to teach math. Use children’s music to guide them in understanding letters and numbers. Do you still remember your alphabet songs like the Bah-bah Black Sheep? We have learned these songs early in our life and we were introduced to the world of letters and numbers through these songs.

There are a lot of ways we can utilize music to help our kids learn their math. We just have to be creative and resourceful. Do a little research and be a little creative and viola you will get your math and music game together. Because we know the significance of developing interest in music and learning math are essential to equip our children as they grow.