Rhyming Stories FAQs

WHAT CHILDREN’S BOOKS WOULD YOU RECOMMEND I READ TO MY YOUNG CHILD?
This depends on the age of the child. But the classic children’s books remain the most popular and also have a strong sense of morality that will send a positive message to your child. Stories such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach, have a positive message and are also highly entertaining for young, supple minds.

WHAT IS THE RIGHT AGE TO START MY CHILD TAKING PIANO LESSONS?
This really depends on the child. There are three factors to take into consideration: academic skill, emotional maturity and natural ability. Your child will need basic understanding of the alphabet as well as subtraction and multiplication. These skills are necessary to read and understand music. It is really important to ensure the child enjoys learning and exploring the piano. Music can be an incredible journey of exploration for a child, but if taught wrong can be a painful exercise that they will dread. Always make sure you go to a professional music teacher who has experience working with children of the same age group. If you are still unsure whether you child is ready for music lessons, the popular opinion is that a child should start learning around the age of seven or eight. But who knows, maybe you have the next Mozart on your hands, and he wrote his first composition at the age of five!

DO NURSERY RHYMES HELP WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF MY CHILD?
Yes. It has been proven that nursery rhymes will aid in a child’s development. When a child claps to the beat of the rhyme of interacts at a precise moment of the telling, this will boost the child’s mind/body brain development. A rhyme is also an effective way for a child to retain information. Learning the alphabet and counting through rhyme has proven to be far more effective than straightforward retention of information.