The Major Way Your Kid Benefits From Playing An Instrument

You Tango reports:

A new study says kids who are more musically inclined have brains with enhanced motor control areas.

Oh, music lessons, I've had my fair share of them. I had a few piano lessons with a private teacher because my pediatrician told my mom that my long fingers were destined to play the grand instrument. I proved that theory wrong.

In grade school all students were forced to learn the recorder, and it was fun but it didn't go anywhere. Then I tried singing and I embarrassingly auditioned to get in my middle school's chorus with no success so I called it quits. So, is it fair to say that all the attempts to get me to break into music were a waste of time? According to a child psychiatrists, even though I wasn't a natural I should have probably stuck with it or at least moved onto another instrument.


A University of Vermont College of Medicine child psychiatry team says that if you could afford to put your kid through music lessons then you should go for it. When a child learns to play an instrument they are also lengthening their attention spans, improving emotional control and lowering anxiety.

Let's here it for music!