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Why Drumming Could Be Your Child’s Gateway to a Love of Music If you’ve been following this science-based blog series, you already know that music isn’t just fun —  it’s biological, instinctual, and deeply rewarding and regulating to our bodies and emotional state. In previous posts, we explored how singing and making music together release powerful neurochemicals like dopamine, endorphins, oxytocin, and serotonin, while lowering cortisol (stress). That powerful mix helps pe

Last month, I introduced you to some of the reasons why music makes us feel so good. Over the next couple of blog posts, we’re going to get a little more specific about how  and why  that happens—because it’s truly fascinating. It turns out that modern brain-imaging and neurochemical research can prove  what we’ve known all along: music makes us happy. When people sing—especially together —the body releases a potent mix of “happy hormones” and neurochemicals that shape mood,

I am so excited to finally start this blog about music, children's development and how humanity's well being is intrinsically intertwined in both.  We've all heard music helps children develop cognitively and physically, but music is also an incredible way to help our children learn healthy bonding skills, self assuredness and awareness of others while having a great time and feeling good too!