How to raise a happy child!

More and more kids have a hard time finding jobs after finishing school. A bachelor degree is not sufficient, even a masters degree doesn’t get you the job you may desire. The competition is getting harder and harder.

If learning was more effortless, your child‘s education could take a dramatic turn for the better. While gaining self confidence your child would become a happy self-motivated learner.

Would this be of interest for you?

What if

- you could support your child on the highest level in the most important 6 years of his or her life

- you could better understand the educational needs of your growing child

- you could keep up the motivation of your child on a continuous level

- you could memorize names and dates instantly

- you could read 2 times faster in 20 minutes

- you could find out that you can learn any skill you want, no matter how old you are

Hans-Peter Becker, founder of an internationally operated music school, lecturer, author and father, with 25 years experience in education and teaching, will show you there are many false belief systems when it comes to education, learning, intelligence and personal development.

Examples from the field of music education can apply to all areas of learning and can bridge the gap to great opportunities and potential.

In a few hours after reading this book, you can make a dramatic shift in your life. With this knowledge, you will re-evaluate your beliefs about your current education status and intelligence, and will help your child gain incredible self confidence.

The only thing you have to do, is read the book and act on it.

It’s that simple.

Music is a part of life

When do humans experience music for the first time?  

The first human organ that becomes fully developed is the inner ear – a four and a half month old embryo already has a completely developed (repetition) acoustic organ. It seems highly important for humans to be able to hear.   

What does this little being want to hear in the mother’s womb?

The rhythm of the heartbeat. The melody of the maternal voice. 
As soon as the baby is born the mother sings him or her to sleep, sings songs to cheer up or to console the child. Immediately he or she reacts to these sounds and attempts to imitate them. Children are born with rhythm and a wonderful musical instrument – the voice.   

Every person possesses a natural connection to music. The term person has its root in the Latin verb personare – which is compounded of the prefix per (= through) and sonare (= to sound) – to sound through. Music runs through us.

 

Music touches our soul. Music inspires love, compassion, nostalgia, makes us dance and children play. 
As has been proven, music makes us smarter, boosts the growth of plants and lulls children to sleep. At the same time, it infuriates neighbors and pumps the adrenalin through the veins.

But that’s not all: the skies, the earth and the forces of nature create their own sounds. Sounds and vibrations surround us every moment of our lives – from the primal scream to a last sigh.   Every atom in our bodies vibrate, every organ has its proper vibration frequency. Vibrations transmit information: radio and television is rendered from this phenomenon.   Vibrations transfer energy. 

Therefore, one function of the human ear is to transfer the vibrational energy to the cortex. The brain receives up to 90 % of its energy from the ear. A majority of this is delivered in high frequencies. In a similar way frequencies, which are produced through music provide energy for the body. Nowadays even mainstream medical practitioners acknowledge the healing powers of music, and musical therapy is on the advance. 

Music transmits life – it is a life source.

Music boosts

• Cognitive

• Social

• Emotional

• Creative Abilities

Music teaches

• Concentration Skills

• Capacity to Work in a Team

• Creative Will

Music increases children’s –

• Happiness

• Balance

• Social behavior

• Friendliness

• Intelligence

• Tolerance

Long-term studies at various universities have concluded that children who practice music are generally more creative, more self-confident and have a higher social competence.

The results of these studies have been increasingly published in the media. It would make sense to assume that as a consequence parents would increasingly sensitize their children to music. If this was true the number of children and adolescents who play a musical instrument would be considerably higher, from which our society would clearly benefit. Unfortunately, this is not the case.

Kling Klong Program

 

There is a magic forest in which a Gorilla lives... This Gorilla though, is different from all others, he is called Kling Klong and he loves music! In his forest, all sounds and rhythms exist, all kinds of music can be heard, coming out from the trees, the flowers, the animals, the insects...

Oh, for him this is the best world! A world full of music...

But Gorilla Kling Klong not only loves music but also children! Children are his best friends and he can spend the whole day singing and dancing and playing with them!

So, when a new child comes into this forest, Kling Klong and the rest of his friends are more than happy to welcome the new inhabitant...    
                                                                                        

                                 

Kling Klong Programme is specially designed for children between the ages of 1 ½ and 7. This programme is part of a comprehensive education in modern music that only the global Modern Music School network provides.

This programme helps kids explore the world of music. A properly trained and skilled instructor is there to guide and lead the group into the musical forest... 

In a unique decorated classroom, kids sing and dance together, experience rhythm and sound and play with instruments appropriate for their age.

Kling Klong Programme is all about music without borders – from Flamenco to Samba and from classical to rock music. Children invent games and dances, experiment with sounds and develop their musicality in a completely natural and playful way.

While little Kling Klong’s friends have fun experimenting with music, this programme is made to benefit the development of their personalities.

Get informed about our pedagogical and musical roots and read why tour operator TUI has added our program to their list of offers as the only one of its kind!

Kling Klong – making music the way kids love it.

Maria Montessori. A Life Devoted to Children.

Maria Montessori’s ideas and concepts on education have travelled the entire globe. She passionately fought for the rights of children to develop without interference.   

Maria was born as an only child to Alessandro and Renilde Montessori on the August 31st, 1870 in Chivaravalle (in the Ancona province of Italy). She moved to Rome with her parents where she spent most of her childhood and years of study. Due to her obvious aptitude for the natural sciences, she attended a boy’s technology school. Her hard work was awarded with an opportunity to study medicine at university. In 1896 she became Italy’s first female physician.   When she worked as an assistant doctor at a mental institution in Rome, she realized that supervising and caring for the mentally disabled and children with learning difficulties was not only a medical matter. It occurred to her that it was also a pedagogical one. She researched possibilities to assist mentally disabled children through sensory aspects of learning. Specially designed learning materials would enable and motivate children to independently learn. The success was phenomenal. During this time Montessori was in a relationship with the physician Giuseppe Montesano. She gave birth to a son, Mario, in 1898. As a single mother she would have had to give up all of her professional commitments to raise her son. Thus, she decided to have him raised in a foster family. They were in regular contact and he moved back in with her at the age of fifteen. Mario became Montessori’s trusted companion and continued her work after her death.

  

Inspired by the successful work with mentally disabled children she took up further studies in Psychology, Pedagogy and Philosophy. Her goal was to use her findings and experience to aid in educating healthy children. The opportunity to observe the development of healthy children, presented itself to her when a building society renovated run-down buildings in a poor part of the city. Someone was needed to supervise the pre-school children of the area. In 1907, the first school for infants was opened in San Lorenzo, a suburb of Rome. About 50 children were looked after by a woman who had no prior training in education. Montessori instructed her on applying the sensory materials she had developed and didn’t interfere otherwise. At the time, Montessori worked as a pediatrician and taught anthropology at the University of Rome, but visited the children on a regular basis. In one of her books she describes the key moment during her observations which let her to fully devote time to pedagogy. She was observing a child that was completely immersed in an activity. After completing it seemed entirely transformed: happy, liberated, more independent.   She became aware that activities involved in everyday life and “sensory” exercises changed children’s attitude towards work and social behavior.

With further detailed research on child activities she developed pedagogical principles.   In 1909 she gave up her pediatric practice and became fully devoted to training teachers and educators for the Montessori children‘s homes and -schools, which soon after became established in various other countries. Due to totalitarian regimes in Germany, Italy and Spain during the Second World War her life’s work was partly destroyed. Nevertheless, she resumed her work in Europe in 1949. On May 6th, 1952 Maria Montessori died shortly before her 82nd birthday in Noordwijk aan Zee, Netherlands.

The most important principles of Montessori’s pedagogy can also be applied to music education:  

• Respecting the ‘learning windows’ in child development

• Learning should involve all senses

• Promoting independent activity

• Every child is an individual with a proper personality. 

  

It is still primarily up to the music instructor to attend to the needs of children. However, most pre-school musical education programs do not incorporate a reliable opportunity to monitor such attentiveness. Among the numerous concepts, there are only a few, that rely on Montessori’s principals and therefore focus on the most vital aspect of education: the child.

Does your child have the proper teacher?

Being a good teacher is much more than being just a nice person or having advanced studies.

If you think that your child has learning difficulties, think twice... Maybe, your kid is perfectly fine!  It might be the teacher who is not able to “connect” with the student in order to transmit the knowledge.

Hans-Peter Becker gives a very good example in his book : Unleash the Secret of Education and learn how to raise a happy child.  

 

“You might be familiar with the situation: For several years you have received good grades in a subject. After the summer your teacher changes and all of a sudden your grades are below average. Or the situation could be reversed. What could the reason for such a change for the worse (or better) be? Did you or your child become more or less intelligent during the vacation period? Surely not. The reason can rather be located with the teacher and his or her teaching methods.”

So, now you know that you have to pay more attention on the teacher and his/her method before coming to a conclusion.

Proper education requires a thorough investigation at the beginning and then you should be a permanent observer of your kid’s progress.