Listening to music can be relaxing. It can be exciting and make us want to dance. Music can also serve as inspiration for artistic creations. I am a filmmaker, arts educator and parent. I’ve taught filmmaking in the past, but music was my first artistic love and passion. My sons share my love of music […]
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Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. If you click through and make a purchase, Multicultural Kid Blogs receives a small commission to help run the site. Why dance each other’s dances? Because we are each other. Come with me on my journey into some unforgettable children’s and teen books about dance, and feel the beat
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When I was pregnant for the first time I had a renewed interest in nursery rhymes; all those childhood favourites suddenly flooded into my head, breaking through the barrier that adulthood had erected. I wasn’t just remembering the English songs from my childhood, but I started learning Dutch nursery rhymes too. Nursery rhymes are usually the
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There are many things I am grateful for to my mother and music and language exposure is definitely one of them. Although I did not grow up in a bilingual family myself and started with my first language at the age of 9, I always had an easy time picking up languages and mimicking accents.
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Kids love music. You may have laughed as your baby happily bopped to the beat before he could walk, or perhaps you’ve noticed your toddler is drawn to playing the drums — or any object resembling drums — like a moth to a flame. As a piano teacher and a music educator, I could go on
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