Your child stores up sounds and feelings even before birth. He stores up sights and smells and feelings and tastes from birth. And he responds to the rhythms of life always, to the beat of mother's heart, to footsteps, to the voices of father, mother, sisters, brothers, and grandparents. Poetry emphasizes the rhythms of life as I suggested in Short, Sweet Lesson 20 . Music also emphasizes these rhythms.
Music can accompany the activities, voices, and rhythms of every day.
Your earliest lessons using music occur in the course of your child's earliest life. Parents should have a memory bank of songs to sing with life's rhythms. You walk with your baby and sing softly in his ear. You put him in his car seat and sing boldly to the rhythm of the tires on the road. You hold him in your arms and sing to the squeak of a rocking chair.