Sing to calm down your baby instead of talking

A study involving thirty healthy infants aged between six and nine months was published in Infancy recently. It was conducted by the University of Montreal. During the research, the infants kept calm twice as long when they are listening to a song, as they did when listening to speech. There are a lot of studies about how singing and speech affect infants' attention, but more should be known, such as how they affect a baby's emotional self-control. "Emotional self-control is obviously not developed in infants, and we believe singing helps babies and children develop this capacity," said Professor Isabelle Peretz, of the university's Center for Research on Brain, Music and Language. In fact, humans are enraptured by music naturally. For adults and older children, they will behavior by foot-tapping, head-nodding, or drumming. But infants do not synchronize their external behavior with the music, or because they lack the requisite physical or mental ability. The findings show that the babies were actually caught by the music, suggesting that they have the ability of being entrained. The findings are quite important for mothers. Singing to their children can help the mothers avoid missing out on the emotion-regulatory properties of singing. Sing more to your infants from now on. You may like the content below>>>http://www.cusabio.com/Clone/dnaT-1089563.html