157. Give Kids the Gift of Kindermusik

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Kids Learn Songs with Kindermusik

I’m going to let you in on a little secret. I feel pangs of guilt every day because I’ve been known to let my two babies watch cartoons while I slip aside to check emails, return phone calls and, yes, even write posts right here on this blog. I admit, it feels wrong. But I recently found one way to make it up to my two-year-old. I’ve signed the two of us up for a new season of Kindermusik with the ever popular “Miss Marta” Wieneke.

Kids Learn Songs with Kindermusik

Miss Marta’s 14-week fall Kindermusik semester starts this week and there’s still time to sign up. It’s a great way to spend 40 fun minutes with your kids once a week and get them curious about singing songs and playing instruments.

Miss Marta's Barrington Kindermusik ClassMarta comes from a musical family. Both her parents were singers and she studied music therapy in college thinking that was going to be her career before her path changed. She started a family and found a way to use her talents to give back by helping give other children the gift of music.  21 years ago, Marta opened a chapter of Kindermusik serving Chicago’s Northwest suburbs and she’s been singing with kids and their moms ever since.

But Marta says she’s noticed a change in her mini music students over the years.  And she really got me when she told me this,  “There’s a lot that separates us today like technology, computers and cell phones. It’s all separating us in a way that’s necessary, but families are more disconnected. Children are more distracted.  They’re having a harder time focusing and listening because our world is noisy and busy and fast.”  I am SO guilty!

But I guess it’s a start to at least recognize the problem and find opportunities to change the pace.  And Marta stresses the power of music.  “It affects cognitive development, emotion and physical development.   It draws us together, bonds us, soothes, calms, inspires and excites.  Music has the power to affect all the parts of us in ways that no other single art form can.”

Miss Marta Wieneke Teaches Kindermusik

Well OK then.  Better get my 7-month-old on the bandwagon, too!  No problem.  There are four music teachers in Marta’s Kindermusik program and they offer classes for newborns all the way up to 4th graders.  You’ll find all kinds of information about the program along with class schedules on their website at KidsNMusik.com.  The tuition for the 14-week semester is $180, they teach classes in Barrington, Palatine and Arlington Heights and you can reach Miss Marta by phone at 847-304-8947.

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