Parents:

Childrens First Music

Teachers

(Trehub, 1999)
Fetal Ear Development


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Parents Education
Moms Pregnancies!

Mozart Effect (1991)

Craze for hothousing

Businesses: Classes, Toys, Recordings

Films

Own music education

TOYS
AMAZON (by age)
Instruments

Magazines
2004: Top three monthly parenting
magazines in United States . . . between
approximately 6.2 million to15.5 million per
year . . . (2005: Mediark Research)


Sims, W. L., & Udtaisuk, D. B. (2008) Music's representation in
parenting magazines: A content analysis. Update:
Applications of Research In Music Education, 26(2). doi:
87551233
What does parents musicing
look like?
Value music:
Enjoyment!
Traditions, routines, self-regulation,
transitions, achievement
What does the parent-child music
interaction look, sound, feel like?
Music Psychologist / Music Educator
How is whats learned the lab transferred to
group settings?

Dr. Sandra Trehub, University of Toronto
Mississauga
What do parents notice?
Parents reliably document childrens
music behaviors and activities they use
with their children.

Valerio, W. H., Reynolds, A. M., Morgan, G. B., & McNair, A.
A. (2012). Construct validity of the childrens music-
related behavior questionnaire. Journal of Research in
Music Education, 60(2), 186-200.
Babble:
Singing or Talking?
Example One

Example Two

As if!
Example Three

Which parents does our
profession know about
through research?
Parents.Guardians.Adults.


What role do parents play in music
education?

What might the link be between musical
parenting in early childhood and support
for music education in schools?