Stress Reducer

Music is a great stress reducer. Music can calm frazzled nerves if you have children preparing for final high school exams. I’m talking both child and parent here. Listening to music while studying can enhance memory.

Using a personalised playlist for study can block out distractions and improve concentration. Spoiler alert: the music genre should suit the style of study. If it’s quiet time, hip-hop is not the choice. Your best bet here is instrumental or ambient (elevator music) tunes that match the desired energy level.

Learning and studying can be exhausting. Music can help energise or re-energise a tired student who needs a lift. Allow them a break with something more upbeat to get the brain chemicals surging again.

Adding a musical element to the study routine can improve memory and recall.

Music can assist with motor development in younger children–activities like marching to the beat and clapping in time. Early childhood centres use music this way.

Young children respond to quiet music at bedtime by … falling asleep. Ambient music played under the nighttime story made the eyelids droop.

Sometimes, parents fall to their own ploy, beating the kids to sleep. Mostly, though, it has the desired effect.