A New York Times article on the value of lullaby-singing cited research about how lullabies work to calm babies, to calm parents, and to ease the transition into sleep. Here’s a quote from Dr. Dennie Palmer-Wolf, who heads up the Carnegie Hall Lullaby Project
“Lullabies allow infants to create neural pathways for calming down, soothing, falling asleep…A lullaby is an external routine that becomes an internal pathway for calming down.”
And since both baby and parent are calmer, experts suspect this may be why parents are able to be more present with their children and bond more deeply. Keep singing at bedtime to capitalize on all these lullaby-benefits! Read more here!
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