Forget the Mozart Effect

There is a link between music and intelligence though it never happen in having a child listen long excruciating hours of Mozart's Sonata. The secret lies when children learn how to play a musical instrument says Parentingscience.com.

According to a research (Schellenberg 2005), it is said that there's no clarity about the responsibility of music in sustainably enhancing our intelligence. But rather music elevates the mood and leave someone alert. The effect of it do not last more than 10-15 minutes. Therefore obviously, mood enhancement caused by music is very temporal.

This mood enhancement effect may result to visual-spatial skill development but that's all about it. The effect may not result in boosting the child's intelligence quotient (IQ) says the research.

Taking music lessons is another matter.

In a laboratory experiment it shows that musicians have distinctively different brain. This is proven by a series of brain scans that provided neuroscientists substantial information of enlarged region of a musician's brain parts that controls finger movement. In other words cognitive development appears clearly in playing music.

But the question here is how do parents foster their children to learn a musical instrument without imposing or forcing them. I heard that there are parents who push their children to learn piano.