Good, quality instruments can be expensive, so while you’re gathering your collection, here are some simple, inexpensive ways to make your own instruments at home.

There’s a reason that rhymes from the mid-16th century have lasted through time and been told to children for generations. Rhymes can be a captivating way to engage your child and enjoy cuddles and giggles together.

This video series is meant to help you hold a daily at home music class with your child. Use this guide to inspire you to interact musically and promote music learning. Activities follow the research on how children learn music and have many child development benefits as well.

We may not be able to meet in person right now for our music class, but I wanted to give you the guidance and tools to hold music class in your homes. Put this video on once a day and it can help you run your own class, or use this video to learn the activities and spread them throughout your day. Use this video as a guide, but take this time to interact and participate with your child.

Every parent and child relationship will inevitably face the dreaded power struggle at some point, and most likely many, many points along the child’s way to adulthood. The ending of a power struggle never truly feels like a win, so if there are things you can do to avoid it altogether, that’s my vote.